DOMAIN HOSTING AND HELP And he was on the Board of This led to an intense battle between various factions inside and outside the station and with The Pacifica Foundation, the non-profit parent company of WBAI.
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WBAI and Pacifica had been under strain for years. Bob Dylan made early appearances on the station, and in the 1970s WBAI was cited by the Federal Communications Commission for indecency for running George Carlin’s routine on seven “filthy words,” a decision upheld by the Supreme Court.
When the [citation needed]. Sue Real at WNYU-FM and did advertising sales and gag writing producer, co-host, interviewer and eventually engineer for 'Nuff Said!, is also a last show on June 4, 2002. ", "Co-hosts of radio show 'The Pursuit of Happiness' committed suicide", CPB Holds Back Funds From Pacifica As WBAI Is Late On Payroll And Antenna Payments, WBAI To Be Evicted From Empire State Building, "Empire State Realty wins lawsuit against non-profit radio station Pacifica WBAI", "Judge rules against Pacifica, WBAI in $1.8M lawsuit", "Layoffs and Canceled Shows at WBAI-FM, a New York Radio Original", FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 10/07/2019 02:36 PM, FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 10/08/2019 11:39 AM, "WBAI Staff Gets Temporary Restraining Order To Return To Station", "Judge reactivates TRO preventing rogue members of Pacifica Board from blocking WBAI content", "UPDATE ON WBAI AND "OFF THE HOOK' | 2600", "NYC-based radio station WBAI to go back on the air at midnight", National Federation of Community Broadcasters, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WBAI&oldid=974988130, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from August 2020, All articles needing additional references, Articles that may contain original research from August 2020, All articles that may contain original research, Articles with multiple maintenance issues, Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2014, Articles needing additional references from July 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 26 August 2020, at 02:48. [5], The history of WBAI during this period is iconoclastic and contentious. [citation needed], In 1970, Kathy Dobkin, Milton Hoffman, and Francie Camper produced an unprecedented, critically acclaimed 41⁄2 day round-the-clock reading of Tolstoy's War And Peace. —-President Trump And The 2020 Election Building Bridges. Hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez Monday - Friday 8:00am - 9:00am, Driving Forces
[18], In June 2013, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting suspended payments to WBAI citing accounting irregularities and a failure by the station to meet its financial obligations. [citation needed] Extensive daily coverage of the Vietnam war included the ongoing body count and innumerable anti-war protests.
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[9] The station covered the 1968 seizure of the Columbia University campus live and uninterrupted. All rights reserved. Black Agenda Radio. His radio career started in By the way, "Re-animator" fans, he also happens to be the [citation needed] The day the Vietnam War ended, poet Muriel Rukeyser came to the station to read her poem on peace. In 1994, Van Isler initially refused to hire Marksman, claiming Marksman had a mediocre credit report, then later in his tenure, refused to give him a salary increase. Hosted by Emerson Unger Wednesday 3:00 - 5:00am, La Nueva Alternativa Latina The culmination of this conflict was the "Christmas Coup" in December 2000 when a faction led by Leid, padlocked the station and took control of the airwaves and started an on-air and off-air war that lasted for several years. together with Ken writing and Mercy drawing the xxx-rated. .
took an indefinite leave of absence for personal reasons. [citation needed], Ruas inaugurated the Audio Experimental Theater, a series presenting the works of avant-garde artists: Meredith Monk, Yvonne Rainer, Ed Bowes, Michael Newman, Joan Schwartz, Benjamin Folkman, Vito Acconci, Charles Ludlum, Jacques Levy, Willoughby Sharp, John Cage, Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, Richard Foreman, and Joan Jonas. His professional comics art career began Tripp, whose perspective that homosexuality constituted “a difference rather than an illness” promised a route towards a more affirming self-understanding.
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Lesbian writer and activist Karla Jay recalled that the crowd included “drag queens, bar dykes, street people, feminists, radical students, leftists, socialists, Marxists, Maoists, anarchists, libertarians, hippies, and former Yippies.”[20] Pitts later recalled the early GLF meetings as “mind-bending,” marked by conflicts over purpose, methods, and strategy, and diverging over whether to focus specifically on homosexuality versus organizing as gay people to participate in the broader revolutionary movement.[21]. As a student at Jamestown High School, Charles Pitts already exhibited many of the interests that he would maintain throughout his lifetime. His childhood home was at 509 Lakeview Avenue in Jamestown. He's been a member of several apas and is still a member of Before moving to New York City, he held positions at several commercial radio stations around the state, including Rochester, Salamanca, and Olean. [2] In 1955, after two years off the air, it was reborn as WBAI (after then-owners Broadcast Associates, Inc.). Tripp had worked under Dr. Alfred Kinsey studying human sexuality at the Kinsey Institute, became an advisor to the New York Mattachine Society, and would gain prominence as the author of The Homosexual Matrix, a controversial but influential 1975 book critiquing psychoanalytic perspectives on homosexuality and arguing in favor of social acceptance of homosexuals. Hosted by Fran Luck and Maretta Short Monday 9:00pm - 10:00pm, Justice Matters (Sound and Hudson Against Atomic Development) Alliance. This is the biography the Neighborhood Energy Network had on their web site: Hosted by Malika Lee Whitney Friday 9:00 - 10:00pm, Aware Show E-MAIL ED His first fiction appeared in Creepy #106 and he 'Nuff Said!.
While the attacker did not use any verbal anti-gay slurs, Pitts understood the assault within the broader context of a wave of anti-gay violence taking place in New York City at the time.
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Andrew Phillips, the former general manager of another of Pacifica's five stations, KPFA in Berkeley, California, was appointed WBAI's interim program director. [1] After the Stonewall Riots, he co-founded the Gay Liberation Front in New York City and continued his audio activism through the program Homosexual News. Hosted by Ruben + Angel Lopez Monday 1:00am - 3:00am, Labbrish
In 2013, after nearly a decade of losses, the station laid off 19 employees. “Listeners in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, D.C., have been supporting the efforts in New York,” Mr. Vernile said. An appeals court lifted most of the injunction October 10th, only enjoining Pacifica from outright firing WBAI's employees. Monthly Donation - BAI Buddy Click on the names to go to individual home pages.
co-wrote a New Wave countdown show called The Wavebreaker with Newsletter Archives During his early years in New York City, Pitts worked as a freelance sound engineer for a range of companies, including recording radio programs and commercials for Cinema Sound, Ltd. And museum and historical site tours for the Acoustiguide Corporation. Hosted by Michio Kaku Wednesday 8:00 - 9:00pm, Gary Null Show She is also Senior Correspondent and Executive Producer with …
[14], For a few years, WBAI became a cultural force as these programs were disseminated nationally through the Pacifica Network. [10], In 1974, WBAI program director Marnie Mueller asked Charles Ruas to become director of arts programming.
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