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...
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...
WBAI—where I used to do my radio show until program director Tony Bates got other ideas—just finished a fundraiser. Management—meaning Bates, station manager Berthold Reimers, and local boa...
https://lbo-news.com/2011/03/07/wbai-fundraiser-snake-oil-sells/
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/
Just reiterating yesterday’s plea: if you listen to my radio show, please contribute during WBAI’s fundraiser. Without WBAI, and without WBAI airing “Behind the News,” there would be no �...
https://lbo-news.com/2010/10/14/another-reminder-to-support-btn/
WBAI is in the midst of a crucial fundraising marathon now, running through most of this month. The station is in very bad shape financially, and unless we raise a bundle in the coming weeks, the...
https://lbo-news.com/2010/10/13/support-%E2%80%9Cbehind-the-news%E2%80%9D-on-wbai%E2%80%94really/
My old friend Marc Cooper has a long post on Pacifica that concludes with some comments on my own recent rant on The state of WBAI (dire). Since it’s always nice to be noticed, I’ll overlook...
https://lbo-news.com/2010/08/30/more-pacifica-marc-cooper-writes/