PACIFICA NATIONAL BOARD: Open negotiations for a multi-media partnership with Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) via a time-limited Public Service Operating Agreement for WBAI. Such a negotiated agreement should encompass the needs of WBAI listener-subscribers, producers, and paid staff. A partnership would secure WBAI financially and bring it into the 21st century technologically. For background, and […]
Progressive Community Media show on Left Forum Event: “The Media is the Movement: Grassroots Collaborations in the Age of Corporate Consolidation” Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s executive director Dan Coughlin, has at various times offered partnership possibilities with WBAI/NY, a Pacifica radio station. Dan Coughlin had a long history at Pacifica, working at Democracy Now in […]
At the beginning of the December 20th, 2018 all paid and unpaid staff meeting many staff criticized the disrespectful and non-collaborative way local WBAI management has made program changes at the station. Management gave the “ad hoc Producers and Friends” committee 10 minutes to express our views. New Pacifica Executive Director Maxie Jackson presided over […]
By John Riley, Out-FM producer and staff representative on WBAI’s Local Station Board (Updated version of comments given at Manhattan Neighborhood Network in December 2017 to dozens of WBAI Staff who had come to learn about MNN’s proposal to Pacifica Radio for a partnership to preserve WBAI’s signal, mission and infuse large amounts of money […]
The following 2 hour special was broadcast on WBAI on 1/11/2018 and was the joint effort of Where We Live producer Sally O’Brien and Education at the Crossroads producer Basir Mchawi – It offers a comprehensive look at the current crisis at WBAI and Pacifica at large and discusses possible solutions. In the interests of […]
Sign the petition to the PNB rejecting a sale or swap of our signal. Tell them we’re not leaving 99.5FM: http://chn.ge/2mc6exT WBAI’s contract to have its broadcast antenna on the Empire State Building runs through April 2020. Building owner, Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), won a near $2 million judgment in October 2017 against Pacifica […]
Video: Unanimous vote by WBAI Local Station Board AGAINST Proposed Signal