WBAI
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| reception | VHF 99.5 M Hz |
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New York City United States
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| Start of transmission | 1960 |
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WBAI (Free Speech Radio) is an American radio broadcaster and part of the Pacifica Radio Network . WBAI is a non-commercial, listener-sponsored station broadcasting in New York on the 99.5 FM frequency. The genre is left, progressive rock. WBAI is home to the popular radio broadcast Pacifica news program Democracy Now - The war and peace report .
history
Comedian George Carlin was the author of a monologue called Filthy Words 'Dirty Words' . This was broadcast by the WBAI on October 30, 1973 and led to a complaint to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Renowned journalist Amy Goodman began her journalistic career with the Pacifica Network network in New York.
The New York Times noted that WBAI would like to refer to itself as "radio for the 99 percent". However, the station with a high standing would only be turned on by 0.1 percent of New York radio listeners. This led to a financial bottleneck in 2013 for the heavily listener-financed station. Summer Reese, Interim CEO of the Pacifica Foundation announced on air that 19 of the 29 employees of WBAI would have to be laid off in order to have the financial basis for the rental of the station on the Empire State Building .
broadcasts
- Democracy Now is a political magazine broadcast on several North American radio stations. Current news and political affairs are dealt with there.
- Weaponry is a broadcast that deals with military technology and history.
- Free Speech Radio News and Wakeup Call are WBAI's morning news magazines, presented by Deepa Fernandes and Mario Murillo.
- Hour of the Wolf , hosted by Jim Freund; Off the Hook , a show presented by the 2600 hacker group ; The Personal Computer Show with Joe King and Hank Kee and The economics journalism of Doug Henwood are classic science fiction shows.
- Jeannie Hopper's , Liquid Sound Lounge, and Chico Alvarez's New World Gallery are traditional music shows.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boca Man Forever Linked To George Carlin. WPEC, June 23, 2008 .
- ↑ Benjamin Knöderl: Amy Goodman: Gentle Warrior . In Friday . No. 2/2018, January 11, 2018. Page 21ff
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/business/media/democracy-may-prove-the-doom-of-wbai.html
- ↑ Ben Sisario: Democracy May Prove the Doom of WBAI . In: The New York Times . August 20, 2013, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed July 17, 2017]).