Television and other distributors as well as locally produced news and public affairs programs. On July 23, 2018, WPBA discontinued the "PBA 30" branding, used since the late 1990s, and changed its moniker to "ATL PBA", removing references to its over-the-air virtual channel. The following day (July 24), Atlanta Public Schools reached an agreement with PBS to convert WPBA into a full-service member outlet in order to better compete with GPB for viewers, public and private monetary contributions, and corporate programming underwriters. The move, which allows WPBA to carry any content supplied by the service and to provide PBS Passport to its members, resulted in a roughly $500,000 increase in programming expenditures; however, the station announced that it would not simulcast programming with GPB and would inform the statewide network of its scheduling decisions. In addition, it was announced that the station planned to keep its Monday and Friday lineups—which primarily relied on British programming—unchanged and expand local program production. On January 18, 2022, Public Broadcasting Atlanta rebranded both WPBA and its sister station WABE, along with their websites, podcasts and smartphone apps, as a single unified entity named WABE, with a new logo and slogan, "Amplifying Atlanta". The call sign of the television station changed to WABE-TV on that date. Local programming WABE-TV's local programming, fitting the station's remit, traditionally focuses on Atlanta issues and culture, though in recent years it has been more limited while WABE built out a digital presence and a series of podcasts. The weekly talk show Love and Respect with Killer Mike airs on television and expanded to radio in 2022; that same year, the station began a concert series franchise, Sounds Like ATL. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital channel is multiplexed: NHK World-Japan was added as a subchannel in 2018. Analog-to-digital conversion WPBA began transmitting a digital television signal on UHF channel 21 in 2000. WPBA shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 30, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 21, virtual channel 30. Transmission tower WABE radio and television share two adjacent towers in the east side of the city between Edgewood and Kirkwood, with the single transmitter antenna used by local radio stations WSB-FM (98.5), WSTR (94.1 FM) and WVEE (103.3