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alp227

(32,025 posts)
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 04:54 PM Jan 2017

Empire State Building Sues WBAI Over Unpaid Rent

Source: Radio Insight

The ongoing saga of the Pacifica Foundation and its station’s attempts for survival has taken another turn as a lawsuit filed by the Empire State Building over unpaid tower rent by 99.5 WBAI New York has been made public.

The ESB sued Pacifica in November 2016 for the $1,357,429.71 owed in rent and late fees plus interest, costs, disbursements, and attorney’s fees. WBAI’s lease runs contractually through 2020 with the station paying for tower and combiner space, backup antenna/combiner, and a transmitter room on the 81st floor.

Read more: https://radioinsight.com/headlines/116226/empire-state-building-sues-wbai-over-unpaid-rent/

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cstanleytech

(26,291 posts)
3. Glancing at wiki about the station I gotta wonder if Trump learned his business model from them
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 05:17 PM
Jan 2017

as it reads like they have had alot of issues since the 50s assuming its the same WBAI on wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBAI

JHB

(37,160 posts)
7. That's the place, but idiotic turf wars go back long before Trump...
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 06:21 PM
Jan 2017

...as does "do as I say, not as I do", especially when money gets tight.

Crash2Parties

(6,017 posts)
4. Our local Pacifica station is the only "liberal" one in the metro area.
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 05:32 PM
Jan 2017

They keep complaining about donations being down. Gee, I wonder why?

-they are anti vaccine.
-they used to only mention LGBT people during a single 1-hour show each week.
-it was the same show that would talk about women's reproductive rights.
-that host was replaced. now they stick to "less controversial" topics and neither is mentioned even when there is a big story in the news.
-Catholic priests, bishops and even the arch-bishop are granted massive amounts of air time.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
6. IIRC, WBAI owes DN! money too
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 06:17 PM
Jan 2017

BAI has had ups and downs, but has been various shades of "basket case" for the last 20 years.

It's sad, because lefty voices are definitely needed; even if you don't agree with the views, it inoculates against rightward drag of the Overton Window. After hearing Samori Marxman, it's not anatomically possible to roll your eyes enough when you hear Rachel Maddox denounced as a "radical leftist."

But backbiting, internecine warfare and poor management takes its toll.

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