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WBAI Local Programming Ceases

And the "let go" staff gets to run the station thanks to an injunction? The radio world has gone mad! This should be something of a wimper.
 
Check what Lance Venta wrote a few hours ago, BigA. The NY P-team gets to go back in. It pays to have judges as listeners in NYC. Whether all of this sticks and where the FCC eventually comes in will certainly be interesting.
 
Tibbs4 said:
Check what Lance Venta wrote a few hours ago, BigA. The NY P-team gets to go back in. It pays to have judges as listeners in NYC. Whether all of this sticks and where the FCC eventually comes in will certainly be interesting.
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Aha! Thank you. Here is a link to the story:

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/...orary-restraining-order-to-return-to-station/

This goes back to something I predicted earlier in this thread:

TheBigA said:
I'm expecting this will lead to staff & union demonstrations and even the potential for vandalism. The last time something close to this happened, it was not very pleasant.
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So yes the employees have challenged the parent company from doing it's job. This has happened in previous shut-downs. Ten years ago, they also got an injunction. The staff and management of this station are inept. They have put the licensee in a difficult position, but they have no basis. Pacifica holds the license of this station, and they also hold the $1.8 million dollar debt that the management created. I can't predict how a judge will rule, but on the surface, the challenge has no basis.
 
The dumpster fire that is Pacifica continues.

The only thing they have going for them is the note holder for the loan is not likely very eager to try to market a challenged FM station. At some point, however, they will have to foreclose but, even then, would have to try to program something to keep the license active while they marketed the assets.

This will play out at each Pacifica property in the coming years. They'll hold on, in some form or fashion for awhile if, for no other reason, they don't have the expenses they do in NY in their other areas.
 
Can someone please explain how the dismissed staff of a station can legally force the owner to let them resume operation of a station, and undo the changes in programming that were made?
 
This is the same organization who has a job opening posted for an operations manager at another one of their stations that requires you to have an fcc 3rd class license, which havent been a requirement nor have they been issued in nearly 3 decades. they also require you to comply with HIPPA laws!!
 
Despite the reports of a legal injunction to restore the staff members that were let go, the programming from other Pacifica stations (mostly KPFA?) remains on the air at this time, in place of local programming.
 
The revolution will be televised. This was posted on WBAI's Twitter account:

@WBAI
Producers are meeting at 6:30pm tonight at 325 Hudson Street Near Van Dam. We also have an Local Station Board meeting on Wednesday open to the public. More details will follow. Thanks for your concern and support.
 
The recently departed Chris Anderson (of WBAI Now and Then fame) is laughing in his grave...

Hopefully this will allow WBAI to fulfill its mission as an "alternative" source of news and information. Sounded like a bunch of incompetent managers and hucksters running the programming over there for the past 20 years or so...
 
Some video was posted from inside the studios, showing that equipment has been removed:

"Significant parts of @WBAI (including required EAS equipment) were dismantled/taken yesterday by
@RadioPacifica, in effect preventing the station from returning to the air as mandated by court order."
 
So apparently there is now a struggle for control of the station, between Pacifica management (or at least part of it), and WBAI's staff. And according to the video referenced in the above post, it has come to the point that equipment, including EAS gear has been removed in an attempt to prevent local programming.
Is it possible that the F.C.C. may need to get involved, if this is not resolved reasonably quickly?

WBAI Tour: https://www.facebook.com/deepdance/...if_id=1570466111306619&notif_t=group_activity
 
The situation is so murky, what could they do to "restore order?"
Pacifica apparently had to allow the staff to return, according to the court order. And station equipment may have been removed by Pacifica, the organization that owns WBAI, which is based in California.
Is it technically possible that WBAI is now linked to EAS equipment at Pacifica headquarters?
 
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