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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".
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.
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
He interviewed early hip hop stars such as TLC and The Fugees on the show. He also founded one of the world's first hip-hop websites, hiphopmusic.com. [ 7 ] He video blogs on a personal website called Ill Doctrine [ 8 ] which features Smooth's commentary on hip hop, politics, and social justice, such as in " Soulja Boy Presidential Debate Remix".