From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Re:re:Commercial free radio Article-I.D.: floyd.445 Posted: Fri Aug 13 11:25:16 1982 Received: Sun Aug 15 07:03:55 1982 References: mitccc.134 WBAI was THE underground station in New York back in the days when people were interested in such things, but when the counterculture movement died, WBAI was taken over by extremely dull, biased programming. (The next few sentences might be construed as prejudiced, I know, but these are my opinions.) WBAI became a soapbox for disgusting radicals - I found the lesbians (who seemed to be on all the time) particularly irritating. The programming tended to be tenants' rights, third world rights, drug users' rights whoever wanted to flame into a microphone. People with complaints. This kind of programming MIGHT be interesting once, but it gets quite annoying on a regular basis. There were big political battles for "control" of the station. Listening to WBAI was just no fun anymore. WBAI IS coming back, but it is not nearly as enjoyable as it once was. It does have occasional good programming, music and talk, but they still have lots of dull, biased programming, and they tend to be overly elitist. I like WFMU (91.1), which has a much smaller budget than WBAI, and they have more consistently interesting programming, mostly music, sprinkled with other programming. Their public affairs programming is usually boring, but at least it isn't rampant. Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491