A Brief History of WREKage
WREKage has been serving Atlanta's metal community since 1984 (known as "Night Reign" until the name changed to WREKage in 1985) on WREK. WREK-FM is the "student owned and operated voice of Georgia Tech," the Institute's radio station, and at 40,000 watts it's one of the most powerful college radio stations in the US. Not surprisingly, considering the school's technical credentials, it was the first radio station in the world to stream live audio over the Internet using software written by Tech alumnus and then WREKage host, John Selbie. The software was first used in October 1994 during a WREKage broadcast, making WREKage the first radio show to stream over the Internet.
The show has gone from being a one-hour show to up to 10 hours (10pm until 8am ... Creative Loafing even wrote about how cool it was to be able to pass out listening to metal on Friday night and still wake up to it the next morning). During its heyday in the late 80s and early 90s, the show actually drew more listeners during its weekly time-slot than Atlanta's then #1 commercial rock station 96Rock. According to the Birch surveys, WREKage drew about 8,000 listeners at its' peak.
The music programming of WREKage has had a varied past but usually rides on the cutting edge of the metal genre. WREKage's current programming is probably the most diverse that it's ever been.
Former WREKage show-hosts
August
August Student Staff | Brian2006-2010. |
HavelBorn of the young breed, possessing a maturing palette as age collects. Specialty lies in brutal/tech death, doom, and grindcore. Favorite acts: Nile, Insect Warfare, Altered Dead, Incantation, Sunn O))) | Malachi
Malachi Student Staff |
| Kraken
Matt Student Staff |
Tim Bennett Student Staff Hosted during the late 80s. |
GregYOU ARE NOT THE HOST | TaylorTaylor has been with WREKage since November 2012 and enjoys sludge metal, mostly. He also likes atmospheric nonsense and is known for harassing Melkor and bringing in pizza to starving, ungrateful co-hosts. |
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Carl Carlsson Student Staff Hosted from '86-'88. The creator of the show's name, 'WREKage'. | Mitch |
Fn DanAIM: ChuckAkerfeldt |
Mark Delgado Student Staff The Bringer of Death. aka El Dentisto! |
AlexCare to chat? IM me: Deef99 | 
Jonathan GerhardStudent Staff |
Melkor1/2011 til 8/2015 | Paul II |
bidBrutish |
Shawn Londo Student Staff |
Robert
Robert MinskStudent Staff I started helping with the show about 2 weeks before "Diamond" Mike Tucker got booted off the air in 1988 or 1989. I worked with Tim Bennit, Mark Delgado, Angelique Royce, and Bob Vincent. | MikeP |
CoreyI don't really like metal; I just want to be cool. | Selbie
John SelbieStudent Staff Created streaming audio software that WREK used to become the first radio station in the world to stream over the internet in October 1994. |
| Katie | Joseph |
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Michael Tucker Student Staff Hosted from '86-'88; Carl Carlsson and I were co-hosts. | BoBHosted from 1990-1995, expanded the show from 2 hour to 10. Also hosted for awhile in 2003-2004 and setup wrekage.org |
| Kyle
Kyle Walburn Student Staff | ho!!yI'm a bitch, get over it. |
| Michael
Michael _ Student Staff | Mike |
Hosted during 96-97, Worked with Shawn Londo, Jesus The Messiah , Paul Cashman and Tim Hurd. WREKage was one of the best time spans in my life. I remember it always! | DeathgasmAlex |
EJNo Blastbeats = No E.J. | DeathgasmEvan |
Angelique RoyceCommunity Staff The First Lady of WREKage |
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