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