[lbo-talk] WBAI details

[Steven Gotzler]

There is alot to be said for professionalism.  If that's what it is.  The 
move to Wall Street has not, aside from the facilities, improved the station 
as far I can tell from listening.  The move has saddled the station with a 
few hundred thousand dollars a year in higher rent for the next decade or 
so.

As you can see from the Ross posting on fund raising.  BAI is falling 
further and further behind.  Of course the books are pretty much closed so 
things have to be guessed at.  But things look bad.  Pacifica is going to 
have to bail out BAI.  Pacifica is far from being in a position to do much 
of that.

If no serious changes happen parts of Pacifica may have to be sold off.

Steve Gotzler
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Perrin" <dperrin at comcast.net>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] WBAI details


>> The old place, at 8th Av & 35th St, was a dump. It was depressing to go 
>> there. Stuff was broken, shabby, filthy. You felt like putting on the 
>> headphones might give you a disease. The Wall Street studios are 
>> attractive, clean, and modern. It feels good after working in that old 
>> dump. That's not the problem. WBAI could use more of what some might 
>> disparage as slickness, not less.
>>
>> Doug
>
> Doug's right -- the old 'BAI ofcs & studio were awful. And that's what I 
> liked about them. 'Course, I'm younger than Doug, so for me it was a 
> romantic setting. Had some good times there. Some wild, insane ones as 
> well. Probably best that they moved on.
>
> Dennis
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