i'm a young and recent listener.
I hope you can migrate the show elsewhere.
emma
On 1 November 2010 22:30, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> This is terrible news...... You've said before that it would be hard to do
>>> the show without the support of a station. What would you need to keep doing
>>> it? Or would it just not be worth doing without the listenership a station
>>> can provide?
>>>
>>
>> The listenership of WBAI is a shrinking thing. It's mainly having a studio
>> and an engineer - and the credibility that broadcast provides when trying to
>> get guests. "I do a podcast" won't get me into the Council on Foreign
>> Relations.
>>
>
> It makes perfect sense. It was always an absurdly large amount of work and
> responsibility to do for for no money. You enjoyed it and felt a duty but
> you basically kept going out of momentum; it was always poised on a knife
> edge to get knocked off. In retrospect it's kind of astonishing that it
> stayed balanced on that blade for so long. And it's really an
> accomplishment to be proud of that you did such a great show every week for
> a decade and a half.
>
> I'm really going to miss it though. It was honestly one of the best
> sources of analysis in broadcast. One of the only shows in any medium that
> I never missed. I know of no show that was so enlightening so consistently.
>
> Michael
>
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