Tag: New York
Lynn Samuels, 69; began talk career at Pacifica’s WBAI
Progressive radio talk-show host Lynn Samuels, 69, who began her career on public radio, was found dead in her Queens, N.Y., apartment ...Public television, 50, dies of apprehensive innocuity
Whenever public broadcasting is threatened by hostile politicians, the conventional wisdom is to circle the wagons and fire back. As a member ...University accepts WLIU fans’ bid for station
Long Island University last week agreed to sell WLIU-FM to a nonprofit set up to maintain the main public radio station on ...Peace declared in the great Bronx tower war
At a feel-good press conference May 13, all parties hailed the resolution of a decade-long fight over the tower of Fordham University’s ...Triple-A strikes chord with disenchanted listeners
One musical voice gaining ground on public radio sounds a little scruffier than the rest. Rather than a viola or sax, it ...While rhetoric flows, WFUV and opponents seek alternative tower site
Fordham University’s WFUV-FM and its opponents across the street at the New York Botanical Garden have been quietly pursuing an alternative site ...Even streamlined history of New York won’t fit in a week
Not every American will buy what Ric Burns and Lisa Ades are selling, but in the 10 hours airing this week on ...Court gives WFUV fifth victory for its tower plan
New York state’s highest court early this month unanimously upheld WFUV-FM’s right to complete the radio tower on Fordham University’s Bronx campus, ...Make it shorter and hang flags from it
The New York Botanical Garden, still fighting the completion of a nearby 480-foot tower for WFUV-FM, told the FCC late in October ...Nothing’s easy in the Bronx, where botanists are tough
Fordham University’s WFUV has withstood for the third time a neighbor’s challenge to its plan to complete a 480-foot transmitting tower on ...Federal agency will help station build new tower despite broadcasts of Mass on Sundays
With its new transmission tower half built, WFUV-FM in New York City now has some more money to pay for it, after ...Court backs NTIA in Fordham case
When the new administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration drew a “bright line” against equipment grants to a station that ...Fordham station sues for PTFP grant eligibility
Reportedly denied eligibility for a federal equipment grant because it carries one church service a week, Fordham University’s WFUV-FM has sued the ...PTFP policy review prompted by station with Sunday mass
The public radio station at a Catholic university has applied for a Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP) grant after being told the ...What does it cost to air a Sunday Mass?
At WFUV-FM, a public radio station licensed to Fordham University in the Bronx, the 25-year-old studio soundboard needs to be replaced, and ...
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