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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". [5] [6] For 17 minutes WBAI broadcast to the Greater New York area as a country station. [6]
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]
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 (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
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]