LBO News from Doug Henwood » Pacifica

Pacifica update: Bill Crosier, the network’s interim executive director (they’ve all been interim for years, since they can’t formally choose a permanent one) has decided to call for a bank...

https://lbo-news.com/2017/12/28/pacifica-to-file-for-bankruptcy/

Because WBAI is broke, almost listenerless, and run by idiots, the station didn’t pay its transmitter bill to the Empire State Building for a long time, and is now $3 million in arrears. The ES...

https://lbo-news.com/2017/12/27/pacifica-death-watch-this-time-its-really-real/

So the person who “confirmed” to me that WBAI was paying Chuck D $2,000 a week mistyped: he said “Chuck D is getting $2,000 a week” when he meant to say “Chuck D is not getting $2,000 a...

https://lbo-news.com/2011/03/27/wbai-not-paying-chuck-d/

WBAI’s program director Tony Bates has ousted another critic of his fondness for quackery and conspiracy theories: Bill Weinberg’s Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade has been “terminated.” Re...

https://lbo-news.com/2011/03/26/another-purge-at-wbai/

Two updates on the KPFA situation (and apologies to those of you who find Pacifica news sleep-inducing): • A few weeks ago, I reposted the news, which I originally got from KPFA Worker, that �...

https://lbo-news.com/2011/03/07/meanwhile-at-kpfa%E2%80%A6/

Pacifica laid off the Morning Show staff at KPFA allegedly because of a budget crisis—and they hire an expensive corporate law firm to deal with the consequences. How community broadcasting of ...

https://lbo-news.com/2010/11/23/pacifica-hires-anti-union-law-firm/

Why care? Perhaps the wider world does not share my interest in the internal goings-on at Pacifica. I do have a personal interest. I grew up listening to WBAI and it helped make me who I am, for ...

https://lbo-news.com/2010/11/15/pacifica-death-watch-cont-gary-null-edition/

Pacifica • deficit commission • QE2 • education “reform” Before that, and before some comments on the news, a few words on the Pacifica situation. I did this show on WBAI in New York fo...

https://lbo-news.com/2010/11/13/radio-commentary-november-13-2010/

I read this intro to today’s show on WBAI: Hello, and welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. This is my last show in this timeslot, and perhaps my last show on WBAI. Back on Monda...

https://lbo-news.com/2010/11/11/my-farewell-to-thursdays-at-5/

More KPFA news. If you’re in the Bay Area and free on Thursday afternoon, please hit the picket line! Pacifica to Cut More than a Quarter of KPFA Staff – Picket Called for Thursday, November ...

https://lbo-news.com/2010/10/31/more-kpfa/