In fact, I did, with my news commentary, News from Neptune, on a local community station. The circumstances weren't quite the same, but I can't help feeling that it was part of some unfortunate but general changes affecting independent radio. Look at what's happening across the country.
I moved my show to local cable television. I sporadically post both audio and video to the web, and that may be the equivalent today to what alternative radio was doing a generation ago.
Condolences, CGE
On 11/1/10 4:42 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> http://lbo-news.com/2010/11/01/the-end-of-“behind-the-news”/
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> I just got a call from Tony Bates, WBAI’s interim program director, informing me that as part of changes to the schedule, my show would be moved from Thursdays at 5 PM to every other Saturday at 10 AM. This is clearly a considerable marginalization, so I’m going to quit. The rot of WBAI has been wearing on my nerves, and this change would bring the cost/benefit ratio into seriously negative territory.
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> It’s remarkable that an interim program director who’s just masterminded another failed fundraiser—this one’s fallen about 1/3 short of its goal, despite being extended by several days—should undertake a renovation of the schedule. He’s the guy responsible for the chemtrails and footpads and 9/11 nuttery during these failed fundraisers, too, so you can see what kind of vision he has. He’s got a good radio manner for hawking premiums, but when it comes to thinking, he comes in rather short. What a remarkable devolution from the days of the program director who gave me my show, Samori Marksman, a man with lots of brains and charisma.
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> I apologize to any of you who contributed to the station on the basis of my recent plea. If you’d like to file a complaint about the money or the programming shift, here are some email addresses:
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