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[4] 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".
Post was a pioneer and a trailblazer in freeform radio at WBAI-FM in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Bob Fass, drawing his inspiration from Jean Shepherd, initially transformed and redefined the form and its possibilities, and Fass, Post, and Larry Josephson, a sort of informal, free-floating, quasi-magical creative triumvirate, then pushed the possibilities significantly further ...
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 ...
WBAI's broadcast of Seven Words became a landmark moment in the history of free speech. In a 1978 milestone in the station's contentious and unruly history, WBAI lost a 5-to-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision (FCC v. Pacifica Foundation) that to this day has defined the power of the government over broadcast material it calls indecent. [10]
For twenty years he was the primary producer of a weekly late-night radio show on WBAI in New York, called The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade [3] [4] (founded in 1988 by Peter Lamborn Wilson, who is also known as Hakim Bey). [5] He has won three awards from the Native American Journalists Association. [6] His basic political orientation is left ...
On October 4, 2019, WBAI was illegally seized by a minority faction of Pacifica's board without authorization, and canceled all of WBAI's original programming including Fass's show, replacing it with canned programs from California. This lasted a month before it could be reversed through court action and Radio Unnameable was restored. [16]
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". Samuels was heard on WABC from 1987 until 1992, 1993 until 1997, [ 3 ] and 1997 [ 4 ] until 2002, [ 5 ] including two breaks in which she was fired and then ...
A Sol-20 was taken to the Personal Computing Show in Atlantic City in August 1976 where it was a hit, building an order backlog that took a year to fill. Systems began shipping late that year and were dominated by the expandable Sol-20, which sold for $1,495 in its most basic fully-assembled form.