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)