From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!physics!mitccc!enid Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re:re:Commercial free radio Article-I.D.: mitccc.134 Posted: Mon Aug 9 17:45:24 1982 Received: Sun Aug 15 02:45:49 1982 >From enid Fri Jul 30 00:17:31 1982 To: physics!npoiv!harpo!ihps3!ihuxo!schnable Subject: Re:re: Commercial Free Summer Cc: enid@mit-ccc There is WBAI-FM at 99.5 in New York and there is also WFDU-Teaneck in New Jersey, which you can get in the city and 'burbs. WBAI (We Beg At Intervals, as we all used to say) is, to quote Steve Post, "Listener spotted, non-commercial radio." Listener sponsorship is what my friends at BAI subsist on, supplimented by *real* jobs and working, in some cases, for National Public Radio. Several of the voices that we hear up here in Boston I recognize as BAI-trained reporters and some are from our Washington bureau of Pacifica, like Ted Clark, for instance. Some are friends and acquaintances who are still and not still on the staff of the station. Avoid them during fund-drives, we've always called them marathons and some- times it can be argued that some of our best programming has come from the marathons. Marathons do often last forever, though and even the staff gets tired of them. WFDU, on the other hand, is a college station, run by (I think they run it) students of Fairleigh Dickenson University. I don't know them as well as BAI, but they have had good shows in the past. Sorry this is not more general as per geoghraphical spectrum, I grew up in NY and moved to Boston. If anyone else has offerings from other parts of the country I'm sure your fellow [fill in your own state name] ers would appreciate them. -Enid Brown (enid@mit-ccc)