W275BK is a radio stationtranslator inDecatur, Georgia. Owned byUrban One, the station simulcasts anurban oldies music format branded asClassix 102.9, as a relay fromHD Radio subchannelWAMJ-HD2 inRoswell, Georgia. WAMJ-HD2 is also simulcast on HD Radio subchannelWUMJ-HD2 inFayetteville, Georgia.

In 2009, the station was assigned toWWVA-FM 105.7, allowing it to circumvent the prohibition on airing original programming by having itsimulcast on anHD Radio channel on WWVA. On April 4, it becamehip-hopStreetz 102.9, but wentsilent a few days later when the person responsible for the new station, the former head of theRadio One Atlantastation group, was sued by Radio One for allegedly using his former position to take the group'sintellectual property (includingremixes) and violating anon-compete clause.

The translator was started byRadio Assist Ministry and was granted aconstruction permit in late May 2004 asW223AO on 92.5 MHz. It does not appear to have goneon-air until 2007, when it finally received a broadcast license to cover, and supposedly relayedGeorgia Public Broadcasting stationWJSP-FM 88.1 (apparently without permission). In August 2008, it changed toW222BE/92.3, and then under anengineering-relatedspecial temporary authorization filed the day after it got its license for this, changed a month later to its current callsign and frequency. It was almost immediately sold toExtreme Media Group, which is owned and run by one of the two people previously involved with Radio One. In early 2009, it went on-air relayingWCLK/91.9.

Another local station which airs its own programming,W250BC/97.9, was also started by RAM and then sold to EMG. It traded the station toCumulus Media in exchange for another one. Because of that station being involved with EMG, Cumulus was also named in the lawsuit, though there was noinjunction preventing that station from operating.^[2]

The station was located on one ofthe two towers nearEdgewood. It was authorized to transmit 110 (previously 170) watts at 207 meters (679 ft)HAAT, but as of March 2012, it was still off-air. Its calculatedbroadcast range is roughly the same as the area withinInterstate 285, but offset a few miles or several kilometres to the southeast.

In December 2009, the lawsuit was resolved such that this translator was transferred to Radio One (via ROA LicensesLLC, meaning Radio One Atlanta) in February 2010,^[3] giving it a fifthradio station in Atlanta, as the U.S.Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allows translators to ignore the restrictions on excessiveconcentration of media ownership in amedia market. Although the license transferred had not yet been FCC-approved, the translator was assigned per theconsent decree to parent stationWAMJ FM 107.5, owned by Radio One.^[4]

In January 2010, the station applied for and was granted aconstruction permit to increase to 160 watts at 303 meters (994 ft), and relocate west to theWUPA TV 43 (69.1) tower in theInman Parkneighborhood of Atlanta. It submitted an application for a license to cover the permit in early April 2010, and within a few days started transmittingWHTA FM 107.9, which is also carried on WAMJ'sHD Radiochannel 2. As is common in radio broadcasting, this may or may not have been theradio format that the station's owners intended to use long-term, but rather one intended to mislead competitors. As of June 2012 however, it was still broadcasting WHTA, thus it appeared the only purpose of the station is to causeradio tuners doing achannel scan to stop immediately before getting to competitor V-103 (WVEE FM 103.3), two channels (0.4 MHz) directly above the "translator".

In late June 2012, the format andvoiceovers of Streetz 102.9 returned toW233BF as "Streetz 94-5". In early July 2012, W275BK switched from airing "Hot 107-9" (WHTA FM 107.9) to Praise 102.5 (WPZE), while still listing WAMJ as the primary station, both with theFCC and in the required hourlystation IDs. The hourly ID lists all three stations (WPZE, WAMJ HD2, and W275BK) at every hour, rather than omitting the translator's callsign except for certain required times as other stations do. The station does not extend the coverage of WPZE.

On November 25, 2014, at 5 p.m., W275BK broke from the WPZE simulcast and flipped to the rapidly expandingclassic hip hop format, branded as "Boom 102.9." The station is still being simulcast on WAMJ-HD2. This marks the third station in the market with the format, afterWTZA (and FM translator W257DF 99.3) andW250BC (WWWQ-HD3) flipped within a week of each other.^[5] On December 22, 2017, at Noon, after playing "Christmas Rappin'" byKurtis Blow, the station flipped tourban oldies asClassix 102.9, with the first song being "Let's Stay Together" byAl Green; the station added theTom Joyner Morning Show the following month after having been dropped byWALR-FM in November 2017, as well asTheD.L. Hughley Show for afternoons.^[6]

In the northern and easternsuburbs, the station is often overwhelmed byWDUN-FM 102.9 inGainesville, Georgia. Overnighttemperature inversions cause cooler air to settle in theChattahoochee Rivervalley, which thentraps and directs the signal southwestward toward the metro area. Seeing the signal problems in this area, Radio One started simulcasting W275BK's format onWUMJ on January 10, 2016, as the recent signal upgrade of WAMJ in 2013 resulted in most listeners moving to the latter frequency, making 97.5 expendable.^[7] However, WUMJ would return to simulcasting WAMJ on July 29, 2016.^[8]

• Official website
• Facility details for Facility ID 143866 (W275BK) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
• W275BK at FCCdata.org

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