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(Pacifica Radio) WBAI-FM Lays Off Most of Staff (New York)
New Ypork Times ^ | August 11, 2013 | BEN SISARIO

Posted on 09/01/2013 7:29:20 PM PDT by carlo3b

... In a tearful on-air announcement on Friday, Summer Reese, the interim executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, which owns WBAI, said that after talks with SAG-Aftra, the union that represents broadcasting talent, “we will be laying off virtually everyone whose voice you recognize on the air,” effective Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: defundnpr; elections; layoffs; liberalmedia; liberals; liberaltalkradio; obama; pacifica; radio
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Another leftwing station going down in flambes.. sniffff
1 posted on 09/01/2013 7:29:20 PM PDT by carlo3b
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Maybe they can get a job at ESPN


2 posted on 09/01/2013 7:31:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: carlo3b

They’re probably all racists anyway.


3 posted on 09/01/2013 7:33:04 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: carlo3b

They will all reserface as regime czars.


4 posted on 09/01/2013 7:33:13 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: carlo3b

Lie long enough and even the stupid finally catch on. American media is on the ropes because it shot all its credibility worshiping political Leftists.


5 posted on 09/01/2013 7:33:56 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: carlo3b

FIXED IT

They will all resurface as regime czars.


6 posted on 09/01/2013 7:34:02 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: carlo3b

I think there was a related thread a few weeks ago. Public funding was even cut off.

lol


7 posted on 09/01/2013 7:35:27 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: BenLurkin

Why do liberals need Pacifica when they have ABC NBC CBS CNN MSNBC, etc....


8 posted on 09/01/2013 7:36:38 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: carlo3b; Flick Lives
There is one good thing about WBAI... Mass Backwards
9 posted on 09/01/2013 7:37:16 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: carlo3b

What does SAG/AFTRA have to do with it. Was the union asking for raises from a station that can’t pay the rent?


10 posted on 09/01/2013 7:41:43 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: carlo3b

LOL.....

they are constantly having these telethons where they beg for money...me and a handful of guys in the office would use the office phone system at night to tie up their lines...guess it worked...


11 posted on 09/01/2013 7:44:24 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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Pacifica has served its purpose, re-electing Obama.

Pacifica got a huge influx of cash from rich libs about two years ago. Now the money is running out, and the rich libs aren’t ponying up anymore.


12 posted on 09/01/2013 7:56:40 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: carlo3b
About the same info with a fresher date;

http://www.downtownexpress.com/2013/08/28/wbai-cuts-local-programs-slashes-news-department/

13 posted on 09/01/2013 7:58:40 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: carlo3b

Yay.

Ding dong the witch is dead...

This station played Arabic music the afternoon of 9/11/01.

To show their solidarity with and to understand the motivation of the perps.


14 posted on 09/01/2013 8:00:37 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: carlo3b

Earlier thread from about the same time frame of this original article;

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3053012/posts


15 posted on 09/01/2013 8:04:18 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: carlo3b

I used to listen to this station daily when I was a teenage moonbat.


16 posted on 09/01/2013 8:06:26 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: tcrlaf

So, they basically ran out of OPM.


17 posted on 09/01/2013 8:07:07 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: carlo3b

Ahh yes. Another handful of proud AFTRA members who can’t find work.


18 posted on 09/01/2013 8:07:18 PM PDT by golux
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To: carlo3b

BAI was fun to listen to in the late ‘70’s

Revolution don’t pa the bills though


19 posted on 09/01/2013 8:10:52 PM PDT by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: carlo3b
had to pay for the Debbie i mean Amy Downer show somehow...
20 posted on 09/01/2013 8:12:12 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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