I remember WBAI, aka W “spread the lies” back in college. Everytime I tuned in to really try to listen to the other side they would pre-empt their regular programming to do fundraisers. Ever since the 70’s they’ve been on the brink of perpetual bankruptcy.
A station staffed with counterculture members having trouble meeting accounting requirements? I’m shocked... etc.
Bummer.
I’m sorry to hear this only because on Sunday nights, they air a show called “Everything Old is New Again” that plays Broadway, cabaret and Great American Songbook standards. It’s one of the few radio shows on the air anywhere that plays music I can stand to listen to these days. If they’d just play that 24/7, maybe they’d have listeners and be making money.
A quick glance made me think WNBA players were being laid off.
Aside from the staff members and their families, only the 3 regular listeners of this station will notice.
It’s about time. That station has become a parody of Leftist blather.
On a similar subject I’ve been trying to keep track of leftist radio but in the past few years there’s been very little mention of it anywhere. Even the sites that tracked it are either gone or went inactive.
Had to look up Randi Rhodes, the womyn who was supposed to unseat Rush. Since Clear Channel picked up her show for some unknown reason, she’s on in 19 states but only seven with more than one station, for a total of 32 affiliates.
When Liberals attack Liberals...great
Is there a single so called non profit which is controlled and run by left wingers, which isn’t a money laundering collection basket for those liberals?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3033872/posts?page=6#6
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The background to the problem is a guy named Bernie Madoff. He managed to loot........ well, put it this way, Bernie left the core leftwingtards with nothing!!! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2319052/posts ~ there were a large number of foundations that were being looted by their leftwingtard management to feed the overgrown cow that supported Pacifica radio. A handful of people at Pacifica were getting all the money, but it wasn’t coming back in the music. WPFW in Washington DC seems to have lost its lease, its record collections AND its broadcasting equipment. Not sure what they’re using now but the power is way down ~ can hardly hear it just 5 miles away.
posted on Thursday, June 20, 2013 11:19:16 PM by muawiyah
Since the news of Madoff and his clones came out, Liz and I have bet his fleecing of his liberal buddies would eliminate many so called non profits, like this one.
WBAI was the station who aired the George Carlin “seven dirty words” bit that sparked controversy. Recently three of its personalities passed on—two of them were hosts of a monthly self-help, build-your-esteem show who committed suicide...
These people were too far left for Obama and his big financial supporters so they go bye bye. I would listen occasionally in NY or DC and they criticized Obama fairly frequently mostly with the same blather they made about Bush (warmonger, etc). I sorta like the medical part of what Dr. Gary Null says, but he mixed it with a lot of leftist blather. I also listened to a couple of marxist black guys and thus was better able to understand how Obama thinks even though he won’t come out and say what they say on the radio.
Leni