Tag: Pacifica
WBAI interim p.d. quits over fundraising programming
Andrew Phillips resigned last month as interim p.d. of Pacifica’s WBAI in New York, a post he accepted less than three months ...Pacifica seeks nonprofit to take over most operations of New York’s WBAI
The Pacifica Foundation is seeking another nonprofit organization to help operate WBAI, its financially struggling station in New York. In a Request for ...Pacifica relieves WPFW manager of duties, urges staff to keep quiet
Pacifica has placed John Hughes, g.m. of WPFW in Washington, D.C., on paid administrative leave and appointed an outside consultant as interim ...Sharp staff cuts at Pacifica’s WBAI aim to save station
Pacifica has laid off the entire news department of WBAI-FM and almost all paid staff effective Monday in an effort to keep ...Pacifica’s D.C. station in dire financial straits, says interim executive director
Pacifica station WPFW in Washington, D.C., is in “a pretty critical financial situation,” according to Summer Reese, interim executive director of the ...Better programming would fix Pacifica, argues journalist
A journalist and former employee of a Pacifica station diagnoses the network’s failure to attract listeners in an article in the Leftist ...Major layoffs ahead for New York’s WBAI
The Pacifica Foundation will lay off 75 percent of the staff at WBAI, its station in New York, in an effort to ...Pacifica misses CPB deadlines, holding up funding for stations
CPB has withheld financial support for the Pacifica Foundation’s five radio stations after the organization missed deadlines for fixing errors and shortcomings ...Ibrahim Gonzalez, WBAI personality and producer, dies at 57
Ibrahim Gonzalez, a longtime producer and on-air personality at the Pacifica network’s WBAI-FM in New York, died in his sleep June 3. ...WBAI fails to meet payroll, pay rent
Money shortfalls at New York’s WBAI, one of two Pacifica Foundation stations that must relocate their studios later this month, continue to ...Deadlines to relocate, raise money weigh on Pacifica stations
The Pacifica radio network rarely enjoys a drama-free moment, but with two of its five stations on a tight schedule to find ...Facing tight deadline, Pacifica leaders disagree over relocation plans for WPFW
WPFW-FM, the Pacifica station in Washington, D.C., faces a deadline to vacate its studios at the end of month and still has ...Supervisor of Pacifica elections points to flaws in system
The elections supervisor for the boards of Pacifica’s five radio stations has recommended that the network revamp its process for selecting board ...Pacifica policy to keep enemies off boards draws ire
The Pacifica National Board passed a resolution barring individuals who have clashed with the network’s leadership from election to the boards of ...Pacifica network broadcasting daylong fundraiser for WBAI
All five radio broadcasters in the nationwide Pacifica network will suspend their regular programming on Nov. 15 from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 ...
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