[lbo-talk] Why Not Sell WBAI?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jul 25 06:25:02 PDT 2005


Chuck0 wrote:


>Let me make a stupid point, again. I know that running a project
>such as a radio station requires money for different things, but is
>anybody getting paid at WBAI who is doing on air shows? If people
>who have shows are getting paid, why can't WBAI replace them with
>people who will do programming for free? How about dropping
>syndicated programming? It would make more sense to tighten belts
>than to sell a progressive station.

A handful of people who do shows are paid - mainly those with daily gigs, and the chief announcer, for whom it's a full-time job. That's not where most of the money is going. It's off-air spending that's the prob.

Doug



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