Obviously a conflict in interest. This is why things have gotten so bad.
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WBAI Local Programming Ceases
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Obviously a conflict in interest. This is why things have gotten so bad.
This was posted at RedWaveWBAI:
"There is also a public meeting of @WBAI supporters TOMORROW to develop tactics and strategies to protect, strengthen, and revitalize the station. 6:30 pm at The Peoples Forum, 320 W. 37th St. Please come out if you can!"
If they want to strengthen & revitalize the station, they might consider coming up with programming that pays for itself, rather than depending on Pacifica to bail them out.
"There is also a public meeting of @WBAI supporters TOMORROW to develop tactics and strategies to protect, strengthen, and revitalize the station. 6:30 pm at The Peoples Forum, 320 W. 37th St. Please come out if you can!"
If they want to strengthen & revitalize the station, they might consider coming up with programming that pays for itself, rather than depending on Pacifica to bail them out.
Pacifica is powerless to do anything because the board is controlled by WBAI members and allies. So they continue to spend money on the station that doesn't get repaid. The local station blames the debt on contracts Pacifica signed. But had Pacifica not intervened, the ESB would have foreclosed on the station's transmitter.
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Update https://youtu.be/Sl-Dtib1MzA
Makes one wonder, BigA. If "they" vote to keep themselves on the Titanic, then are the same board members not legally required to uphold the charter and make smart financial decisions in the best interest of the station or even Pacifica? Could they individually be "sued" by Pacifica or any other entity that has not been paid? Does this left wing organization not even see that their left wing policies are literally proving their model is dead wrong if you want to actually survive? They ain't the federal government who can print the money.
I don't know the solution. Here's what happened today. None of it good news, unless you like status quo:
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/...s-vow-to-keep-fighting-for-local-programming/
Bunch of old guys who had to be helped up and down the courthouse steps? I resemble that photo. LOL. Doubt many of them could put up a lotta dollars if they were asked to put their money where their mouth is. So they just all stand there and do what they do best....
So here's my final questions of the night. Maybe. What happens if Pacifica were to give away, close or "sell" the actual corporation that owns BAI and the other stations? Or is this entity like the eternal flame? There has to be some sort of relief mechanism that is allowed in case of distress. I flat out do not see how people who are not really part of the actual license can remotely control the content and direct the station at any level, without violating the FCC rules. The local he-said/she-said court issued decrees to return the station to it's mostly unpaid staff seems highly unusual. Now it seem like various judges are headed toward one heck of a power struggle and caught up in the same sewage as the actual station.
So here's my final questions of the night. Maybe. What happens if Pacifica were to give away, close or "sell" the actual corporation that owns BAI and the other stations? Or is this entity like the eternal flame? There has to be some sort of relief mechanism that is allowed in case of distress. I flat out do not see how people who are not really part of the actual license can remotely control the content and direct the station at any level, without violating the FCC rules. The local he-said/she-said court issued decrees to return the station to it's mostly unpaid staff seems highly unusual. Now it seem like various judges are headed toward one heck of a power struggle and caught up in the same sewage as the actual station.
Pacifica is the licensee. It's a foundation. The board of directors vote on what the licensee can and can't do. So the board would have to vote to sell the stations, and this board doesn't sound predisposed to do that. In fact it sounds like they just voted this way because they feared the iED wanted to sell them. They need the foundation to bail them out when they run out of money. But that's about it.
The is Catch 22 management. The catch is the people you're supposed to manage are in fact your boss, and they can vote to negate everything you do. How is that possible? I don't know.
They left off a few details. Imagine this updated "quote":
"MAJORITY OF #PACIFICA NETWORK BOARD VOTES TO RESTORE #WBAI But #NewYork’s has been station
@WBAI still has no local control. What you hear on the owner's frequency 99.5FM NY is NOT programmed by us.
It's just the actual owners. We (us) doubt we would pay the owners to work for them, but we expect them to
continue to owe us for running their station into the subway toilet."
"From their cold dead hands...."
Barry, you make a fair comment there. Sadly, what you are seeing is that these self-loving, self-serving people THINK the world is in love with their shows, mindsets and brilliant programming. Being a left-leaning station should be about "the fight and the cause of others and lifting them up." This is only a case of ego out of control and unable to see the reality that will severly bite them in the butts. And after it happens, they still will never admit they actually bit themselves. I am surprised "they" have not destroyed each other. Yet.
Posted today by the PD of WBAI:
Fed Judge today said, “Public Good is at issue,” that there’s collateral damage by the failure to resolve differences with potential damage to #WBAI listeners and harm to fiscal solvency of @WBAI bec internal arm wrestling. He asks is there a settler?"
Answer: No. It's a never ending soap opera.
https://pacificainexile.org/archives/2805
Fed Judge today said, “Public Good is at issue,” that there’s collateral damage by the failure to resolve differences with potential damage to #WBAI listeners and harm to fiscal solvency of @WBAI bec internal arm wrestling. He asks is there a settler?"
Answer: No. It's a never ending soap opera.
https://pacificainexile.org/archives/2805
Quite a read, there, BigA. There is only one solution left. Abandon ship. What would happen if John drove a few miles from his humble home and turned that station off? If half the back fighting and scheming is remotely true, this may well have the potential to be a high grossing movie. $4-8M.
If half the back fighting and scheming is remotely true, this may well have the potential to be a high grossing movie. $4-8M.
The quote from the judge is him saying "Get me outta here!" The judge realized he's in the middle of a "lover's quarrel," a circular argument for which there is no end, where each side is demanding that the judge throw the other side in the clink. Except the charge is based on these corrupt by-laws, not any actual laws. Neither side is willing to blink.
All credit to the iED. Previous permanent EDs have faced the same circular argument, but they've quit. This guy ain't quitting. He's holding the signal hostage. He has the upper hand, and apparently the judge isn't going to force him to do anything. Maybe it's just me, but I see some parallels to the national political situation. As you suggest, they could make more money turning this into a movie that they could with an on-air begathon.
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