When Manhattan Chemical Engineer Louis Schweitzer gave away his $200,000 FM station last year, he did so, he said, because it was threatening to become a commercial success. The December 1958 ...

World Socialist Web Site writer Patrick Martin was interviewed on the “Law and Disorder” podcast last week on the political crisis in the United States and the dangers of the fascist administration ...

In 1972, comedian George Carlin famously released a bit on the seven “Filthy Words” you can never say on the public airwaves. The bit became the subject of a landmark Supreme Court decision, FCC v.

Pacifica Foundation, the owner of noncom station 99.5 WBAI(FM) New York, has agreed to a consent decree with the FCC that will include paying a $25,000 penalty for repeated on-air violations related ...

There’s a story behind every real estate sale, development and transaction in New York City. Award-winning journalist and The Real Deal contributor Adam Piore shared several of the most consequential ...

WBAI, the only New York FM station supported entirely by its listeners, operates from a squat, pinkish nonbrownstone on East Thirty-ninth Street. Outside there is a bronze plaque saying Vera Institute ...

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — A pioneer of freeform radio, Steve Post was a sardonic, witty, curmudgeonly — and yes, very Jewish — voice on New York radio stations for decades. “One of New York’s ...

Beginning Thursday, December 10, 2020, Marcia Pendelton, president and founder of Walk Tall Girl Productions, will produce and host the new radio program, "Backstage Stories." The hour-long broadcast ...

Shuttered New York radio station WBAI FM 99.5 is expected to go back on the air at midnight Thursday following a judge’s ruling in a lawsuit brought by its employees after it was abruptly shut down ...

One month to the day since operations at the decades-old, listener-supported radio station were suspended by its parent organization, the Pacifica Foundation, 99.5 WBAI FM has regained local control ...