WBAI — A NOTE
FROM THE GM
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Note from the GM:
Dear WBAI family,
WBAI wishes you a happy healthy new year. WBAI made it thru 2021 and we are looking forward to 2022. Indeed, for the first time in at least 7 years WBAI ended the year with a surplus. Of course, we were affected by COVID-19 but were helped by a bequest and the PPE loan that was forgiven.
I am excited to announce that Leonard Lopate celebrated one million downloads of his excellent program. I could go on and on about excellent programs but will bring your attention to the fact that WBAI’s morning strip from 6 am to 10 am has risen significantly in the rankings. We are producing excellent programming and specials from political to health, arts, music, and science and science.
However, it will be a challenge to repeat the 2021 financial performance. As we focused on programming, we were not able to also maintain the intensity and level of fundraising. We fell behind in October and November 2021 and launched a Tower Fund campaign. We raised near $54,000.00 to date out of our $250,000.00 campaign to pay up the antenna bill for the entire year in order to better focus on programming.
Below you can read the Program Director’s report on programming and various specials we highlighted.
Remember that you are the reason for our existence. Without you, there would be no WBAI and only the likes of Fox News. In fact, 103.9 FM which used to be an R&B station is now a right-wing talk station:
Sincerely,
Berthold
Berthold Reimers
WBAI General Manager
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WBAI — A NOTE FROM THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR |
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Note from the Program Director:
Dear listeners,
Happy Birthday WBAI!!!
Happy New Year!
WBAI is now in its 62nd year. The station just had a birthday on January 8, 1960. Our staff is working hard to bring you programming which speaks to Pacifica’s long standing mission of promoting peace and justice. We do this through the many varied voices which come to you over WBAI’s airwaves. Speaking of Birthdays, we hope you heard our wonderful programs leading up to and including MLK Day on Monday January 17, as well as other special programming over the past months. Coming up, we have an abortion rights special Saturday afternoon and a network wide Black History Day on February 21st.
Please follow our schedule at https://wbai.org/schedule/ which I’m trying to keep up to date. Also check out the upcoming program carousel on our website https://www.wbai.org/ as well as posts on our Instagram, twitter and Facebook accounts.
I am happy to report that Nielsen ratings show that more of you are listening to WBAI and you are staying with WBAI for longer periods of time. Two months ago we launched our new morning show, “What’s Going On” and the listenership for the morning drive time program is now larger than it has been in a very long time. Thanks to our revolving hosts, Bob Hennelly, Frenchie Davis, Rebecca Myles and Felipe Luciano and thanks to our morning engineer Michael G. Haskins for shepherding the programs.
We’ve also strengthened our 10 AM lineup, so look for Sounds Like Hate from the Southern Poverty Law Center Mondays at 10 AM; Dr. Margaret Flowers of Popular Resistance with Clearing the Fog at 10 AM on Tuesdays; Tiokasin Ghosthorse with Native Voices at 10 AM Wednesday; Code Pink Radio at 10 AM Thursdays and Esther Iverem with On the Ground, Voices of Resistance from our Nation’s Capital Fridays at 10 AM; Saturdays at 10 AM you can hear On the Count, WBAI’s criminal justice report and rounding out the week on Sunday at 10 AM is City Watch with Jeff Simmons and David Brand. Tune in early and stay with us. We think you’ll appreciate what you hear.
WBAi has also launched some new programs. Wednesdays at 2:30 PM tune into Harriet Fraad with Interpersonal Update USA, and at 3 PM for Shay Wah Nana, Tea with some Mint, hosted by Zein El-Amine. Saturdays Dahoud André brings you Haiti: Our Revolution Continues from 4-6 PM and Rick Smith adds to our Labor programming from 6-8 PM. Janet Coleman and David Dosier have joined our 9p Arts Strip. Please look for them on Tuesday evenings. Shout out to Marcia Pendleton with Backstage Stories who has just celebrated her first year on WBAI. Congrats!! You can catch her program Thursdays at 9 PM. And please check out our music programming 10PM-midnight Mondays through Sundays, as well as after midnight and all through the night. I’ll share more programming news next time, but for now let me just tell you a little about our Tower Fund Drive Campaign.
We launched it to pay back rent on the room at 4 Times Square which houses our transmitter. We also want to be able to pay the rent forward so we don’t have to worry about it. We did great in December and raised $56,000 with your generosity and the hard work of our producers and announcers. Our goal in the next two weeks is to increase the $56,000 to $100,000 to complete the Tower Fund Drive Campaign.
Please help WBAI. Go to Towerfund.wbai.org or call 212.209.2950 to contribute. You can also send a tax deductible check made out to Pacifica-WBAI to 388 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217. This would be a wonderful birthday present to a radio station which has been with you and hopes to be with you well into the future.
Many thanks again,
Linda
Linda Perry
WBAI Program Director
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EDUCATION
AT THE CROSS ROADS
Hosted by Basir Mchawi
Thursdays 8:00 - 9:00 PM
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Education at the Crossroads attempts to look at education in a broad and comprehensive fashion.
Critical education related issues manifest on an almost daily basis. Crossroads looks at many of the issues that the mainstream media fails to cover including: alternative forms of education, high stakes testing, African centered education, home schooling and community responses to continued mis-education.
WBAI's Basir MChawi honored MLK on Monday January 17 from 4-6 PM by providing a must listen special on Patrice Lumumba where US imperialism and interventionist foreign policies were compared to the plight of African Americans and working people in the USA.
Take a listen:
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VOICES OF RESISTANCE:
A collective of women fighters
Hosted by Lucy Pagoada-Quesada and Andreia Vizeu
Sundays 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Airs now From 4:00 - 6:00 PM
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The show airs political and social analysis and reports from the front lines of the struggle with activists involved in the fight against capitalism and imperialism here and abroad.
It is voices from organizers and activists across the country and abroad struggling against US and other empires. The program is anti – imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-neoliberalist and socialist. Voices of Resistance is alternative media and serious journalism from a working class perspective.
WBAI's Voices of Resistance take on: Cuba and Nicaragua: Resisting Imperialism and taking care of the people. Self-determination versus US intervention and sanction, a theme found on the Lumumba special by Basir.
Take a listen:
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LEONARD LOPATE AT LARGE
Hosted by Leonard Lopate
Mondays-Fridays 1:00 - 2:00 PM
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In 3 years The Leonard Lopate Show
Reaches a milestone of
1 million downloads
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“Leonard Lopate at Large” features the same lively, in-depth conversation with the nation’s preeminent thinkers, scientists, artists, journalists, economists, farmers, musicians, historians, authors and politicians that made Lopate a beloved fixture of New York City’s public radio landscape for more than four decades. |
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HAITI: OUR
REVOLUTION CONTINUES
Hosted by: Dahoud André, Dr. Mamyrah Dougé
Saturdays 4:00 - 6:00 PM
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Longtime Haitian community activist, Dahoud André is a member of the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship which supports the people's struggle for justice.
He joins WBAI weekly along with Dr. Mamyrah Dougé Prosper from Port au Prince, visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College
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Farewell Sidney Poitier
Hosted by: Marcia Pendleton
Sidney: In Context. Interview with Michael Dinwiddie.
Part I: General info about Poitier’s background. Life in the theater: American Negro Theater, A Raisin In The Sun. What were the circumstances: cultural, political, social, historical, economic – that enabled Poitier to emerge as a movie star. Sidney: As Director. Interview with Richard Wesley. Screenwriter: Uptown Saturday Night, Let’s Do It Again.
Part II: The journey as the author of two screenplays directed by Poitier. The relationship beyond the professional. Sidney: Interviewing an Icon. Interview with Patrick L. Riley.
Part III: Your first connection with Poitier, now an elder and icon, Oprah Legends Weekend. Other tales from the red carpet. Ruben Santiago - Hudson giving you the heads up on the Broadway bound play Sidney. The partners. Sidney: Remembering. Interview – All (Michael, Richard, Patrick).
Part lV: The first time you saw him on screen and or the first time you became aware of him. Favorite film and why. Final thoughts about Poitier and his impact (artistically, culturally, socially, civically). Sidney Poitier Day – Sunday, Feb. 20.
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Hosted by: Janet Coleman & David Dozier
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Cat Radio Cafe returned to primetime on Tuesday at 9 pm in an attempt to create an art strip from Monday to Saturday after the success of our art shows at this time.
On this show Cat Radio Cafe is joined by composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Michael Kourie to discuss the upcoming world premiere of their opera, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, based upon Georgio Bassini’s 1962 novel about an old and aristocratic Italian-Jewish family on the eve of World War II who believe themselves immune to the encroaching Jewish racial laws and the coming alliance between Mussolini’s fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The story resonates mightily with its themes of discrimination, exclusion, and fascism on the world stage today.
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. a co-production of The New York City Opera and the Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, opens on January 27 and plays for eight performances only at Edmond J. Safra Hall in The Museum of Jewish Heritage, a Living Memorial to the Holocaust.
Take a listen:
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CONGRATULATIONS
TO GARRY NULL
on being the WINNER of the
TEKKA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - DECEMBER 2021
WBAI is pleased to post on our E-newsletter Garry Null Winner Laurel and Certificate.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Get your free subscription to the Arts Express Magazine by sending an email with the word "subscribe" in the subject line to:
This month in the Arts Express Magazine:
**The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon
** Actor Frankie Faison, who just won Best Actor at the Gotham Awards for The Killing Of Kenneth Chamberlain, starring as an elderly disabled black victim of a brutal police murder in his own home
** The Women Film Critics Circle Special Pauline Kael Jury Awards 2021
** Artist Leslie Fry's stunning leaf images
and more!
Listen to Arts Express Radio Saturdays 6AM on WBAI.
**Arts Express, Always Fresh --
Never A Repeat Show**
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Companies of all sizes match donations their employees make to nonprofits like WBAI because it’s an easy, structured way for them to support good work in their communities. CSR, or corporate social responsibility, is an important factor in how the public perceives brands and companies these days.
Corporate matching gifts are an efficient and straightforward way for companies to build relationships with charities.
Call your HR department to see if your company participates and to arrange a matched donation.
Contact WBAI’s General Manager
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Every home in the U.S. is eligible to order 4 free at-home COVID-19 tests. The tests are completely free. Orders will usually ship in 7-12 days.
Order your tests now so you have them when you need them.
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- Two (2) layers of comfortable 100% premium cotton fabric
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Donate for a face mask online or call 516.620.3602
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STARTING FEBRUARY 2022
White House to make 400M
Non-surgical N95 masks available to Americans for free
The masks will be made available at a number of local pharmacies and community health centers.
The program will be fully up and running by early February.
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