The three outlets share studios on Bismark Road in the Morningside/Lenox Park section of Atlanta; WABE-TV's transmitter is located on New Street Northeast (south of DeKalb Avenue) in the city's Edgewood neighborhood.

WABE carries a general public radio schedule with local hosts Lois Reitzes, Rose Scott and H. Johnson and produces the Peabody Award-winning podcast Buried Truths with Hank Klibanoff.

[5] Initially, WABE ran exclusively instructional programming for students in Atlanta and Fulton County schools and was the first station of its kind in the Southeast.

[7] The first radio studios were in two rooms on the 14th floor of the Atlanta City Hall; the station moved to its present quarters on Bismark Road in 1957.

[15] Ultimately, the factor that dissuaded the Board of Education from handing over its broadcasting outlets was the fact that it was a minority school system and had no interest in turning over the services to a predominantly White group.

[21] Later in the decade, the statewide network made another overture to take over WPBA and WABE, which the Atlanta Board of Education rebuffed, with the racial composition of channel 30's management compared to the state agency again being cited.

[28][29] During the day, WABE mixes public radio programs from NPR and other producers—including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Here and Now, Fresh Air, and Marketplace—with its own local shows, including City Lights with Lois Reitzes, covering the arts; Closer Look with Rose Scott.