 The station was first licensed by the U.S. Department of Commerce on 1110 kilocycles, on January 7, 1924; owned by the Georgia Institute of Technology, then known as the "Georgia School of Technology", it got the sequentially issued call sign of WBBF.Much of the initial station equipment had been donated by the "Atlanta Constitution" newspaper, which had closed its station, WGM, the previous July.This donation to the electrical engineering students was made to help familiarize them with the new technology used for radio broadcasting.