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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".
In the Beginning – WBAI, 1966–72 [3] The Colgate Human Comedy Hour – KPFA, 1972–73 [24] The Little People or Think Big – KPFA, a documentary about a visit to a dwarf convention. Received an Armstrong Award. [10] Bourgeois Liberation – WBAI, 1979–84 [5] Classic Bob & Ray [14] The Bob and Ray Public Radio Show – 1981–86 [15]
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 (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 .
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 ...
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
It's difficult to imagine life today without computers, but the personal computer was barely a reality just 33 years ago. On August 12th, 1981, IBM introduced their first PC model, also known as ...
John Randolph, better known as Jay Smooth (born 1972) is a cultural commentator best known for his Ill Doctrine video blog. [1] [2] He is also the founder of New York City's longest-running hip hop radio program, [3] WBAI's Underground Railroad. [4]