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As an April Fool's Day prank in 2009, the show staged a mock shutdown and takeover of WBAI by a new country station. Rather than the show's intro, the hour opened with an apparent station sign-off followed by the introduction of "New York's New Radio Station," playing a "10,000 song marathon" to celebrate the birth of "Country 99.5".
WBAI (99.5 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station licensed to New York, New York.Its programming is a mixture of political news, talk and opinion from a left-leaning, liberal or progressive viewpoint, and eclectic music.
Charles Pitts was born on July 24, 1941, in Jamestown, New York.His childhood home was at 509 Lakeview Avenue in Jamestown. His father, George B. Pitts, Jr. (1905–1997), ran Pitts Home and Garden, a home and hardware store inherited from his father. As a young man, he had been enrolled as a student of philosophy and religion at the University of Chicago, intending to become a m
Also included are a regular science fiction program: Hour of the Wolf presented by Jim Freund, Off the Hook, a program presented by the 2600 hacker group, The Personal Computer Show with Joe King and Hank Kee, assisted by Mike, Stevie Debee, Dannyb, and a bunch of friends (which first aired August 6, 1984), and the economics journalism of Doug ...
Fass continued to do his show as New York City and WBAI went through radical changes. In the 1970s, the Movement split into factions and new program directors and station managers began to alter the thrust of the programming, apportioning blocks of airtime to feminists, gay rights activists, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Native ...
Mickey Waldman started working at WBAI, the Pacifica Foundation's New York station, as an assistant and technician, along with Nancy Allen, for Bob Fass on his late night radio show, Radio Unnameable. She began as a volunteer, but in time became one of the station's relatively few paid employees.
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She began her radio career at WBAI in 1979, where in addition to her on-air work, she was music director and an engineer and producer. [2] Walter Sabo, in a tribute on the Alex Bennett program (hosted by Richard Bey) on December 27, 2011, stated that Lynn first worked for WOR on Saturdays from 4–6 p.m. "for quite some time".