An unvarnished blog that dips into the past and comments on the present of WBAI-FM, a once significant, intelligent New York radio station that for years has suffered chronic abuse from within and now nears extinction. Your comments are welcomed and will not be censored.
As you probably heard Haskins ramble this morning, Reimers is planning a Report To the Listener sometime in the future (no date or time given). Should be safe without phone lines nor listener input, but probably won't happen, anyway.
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He may mumble something, but it will neither be coherent nor honest.
DeleteThey wish a typical listener to WBAI looked that good as the one in the advertisement. A typical listener of WBAI looks like Lynn Samuels, Mimi Rosenberg or Michael G.
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At least Lynn Samuels did some good programs. If only the same could be said of Mimi, Michael G or an number of other "talents" on WBAI today!
ReplyDeleteKenya believe it ... Pam actually came in wearing an "i'm with stupid" t shirt .
ReplyDeletetrue story .... haha
Doing a story on crown heights 25 years later , and somehow they managed to work in
the words slavery and jim crow . Amazing !
According to producers on Facebook, the 7-8pm weekday shows have been cancelled to make way for a political comedy show. If it's a good new show, that could be a good change (not sure what's in that lineup now). Change is obviously overdue at bai.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Bernie Fleshkin is coming back,
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Watch, it will be Credico...
DeleteSDL
Good guess, SDL
DeleteThey ran something around 5pm yesterday, a small group of expletives exchanging exceedingly unfunny. Pointless lines, each ne followed by an audience reaction/laugh track. It was so that I instinctively thought of Erthold Reimers. That jerk is the ultimate loser, except when it comes to keeping a $100.000.00 annual salary without doing anything but destroying a radio station. Some say his official salary was increased by $10,000.
Mimi and Ken assuming their roles as the honorary spokescouple for the black race yet again.
ReplyDeleteBringing slavery to the masses. (well at least the 8 people that still want to hear this dreck)
I am listening and this woman with her New England book sounds like a strenuous stretch. We all know that slavery once was a fact of life--I, myself, spent several years working on slave documents from St. croix.
DeleteYesterday, in a rant against Hilary Clinton, Gary Null had nothing but high praise for Quaddafi in Libya and Assad in Syria.
ReplyDeleteHe is a very confused man who flip-flops at the drop of a pork chop. Robert Knight, a guy who used to waste a lot of WBAI airtime, also praised Quadafii and I don't think it's a secret that he had a mental problem.
DeleteSounds like Revisionist History Syndrome. The old timers called it Hanoi Jane Syndrome. Common Symptoms:
DeleteBlind support for its enemies no matter many actual war crimes they may have committed while retaining their duplex condo in the village and their daily trips to Starbucks.
Absolute Conviction that Bernie Sanders is a sellout.
Constantly wondering why we can't be more like Sweden or Finland.
Wearing a keffiyeh all the time just to annoy people.
Complaining about why the media isn't covering his protest against GMO foods
even though there are only eight protesters.
After the 1986 U.S. raid on Libya, Robert Knight flew to Tripoli and marched in solidarity with Libya and met Qaddafy Duck along with Elombe Bad Breath.
DeleteKGT
Wouldn't surprise me.
DeleteNull is a mentally unbalanced political ignoramus. All his political blather sounds like it was written by Alex Jones. My guess is Null listens to Jones and regurgitates what he say, or Null's people listen to Jones and write scripts for Null.
ReplyDeleteRobert Knight should just be forgotten.
I think the WBAI women, like Perry and Halper, should be sent on special assignment to The Caliphate, for an up close and personal with Islam. Once they start spouting feminism, that should take care of them
SDL
Your Null observation makes sense.
DeleteAgree wholeheartedly on Knight—I think he is, in fact forgotten, although Credico likes to make references to him. Credico is a sell-out, anyway.
The WBAI women have a big ASSet in Kathy Davis,,, it isn't easy to come off more idiotic than she.
Robert Knight will never be forgotten, at least not by Kathy Davis because they were lovers for a short time. Robert was married to Valerie Van Isler, the former GM for a few years too. They loved his mind, so they have a fondness for him. Evelyn Tully Costa, who used to be Andrew Phillps girlfriend, is writing a book about her experiences at the station. She said she and Andrew would have threesomes with Samori and Mario in his office. Lots of sex in the WBAI offices.
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I hope you are not making this up. Where does Kathy's sometimes co-host (Paulette?) fit into all this? I had the impression that she was Knight's main squeeze... and what about that horrid woman, Pamela Somers, who was his apologist?
DeleteHm, I don't think I would say yes to a threesome with anybody on that list. Maybe Mario a few years back.
DeleteHoly shit! According to OTH, TPCS is cancelled as of the end of the month.
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So that's "Out FM" and the Computer Show, so far. The dummy is dumber than I thought.
DeleteMy tweet of rebellion tonight, which people should retweet, if they see fit is:
ReplyDelete#WBAI is cancelling The PC Show http://www.pcradioshow.org/ after 33 years on the air. FIRE REIMERS NOW! FIRE REIMERS NOW!
I didn't know about Out FM SO Gays don't matter now, I guess. All slavery and reparations all the time - WBAI!
SDL
Joe King is on a verbal murder spree tonight. I love it!
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Yes, that's good and I will be posting it. I had my criticism of this show, but it was nothing that couldn't have been fixed. As usual, Reimers made an asinine, uninformed decision.
DeleteMichael the caller had a good idea - change the name of the show to Black Computers Matter.
DeleteSDL
Yes, but the guys' inability to accept the fact of WBAI going down and turning lowlife black is disappointing. Joe Kee is politically correct, but spineless. The lawyer hit the mark, I think.
DeleteYou mean Hank Kee, I take it. The guy recommending the lawyer had my kind of attitude, but, in truth, a station can cancel a show. I don't think TPCS would have any sort of case, unless a contract were violated.
DeleteWhat really burns me up is how a show that has helped tons of people gets canned while shit like The Blacks and Katie Halper were on this afternoon and not being fired.
SDL
Yes, Kee—thanks for the correction. Did you notice that the one caller who thought they had it all wrong sounded black? That should have told Kee something.
DeleteThe station has th absolute right to cancel a show (they should do it more often), bunotice how cowardly the Reimers idiot is—he couldn't face them, not after they've been on the air for over two decades.... the same with Sidney Smith. Berthold Reimers is a very sorry excuse for a human being. At this point, it is very doubtful that WBAI can survive—I only hope that the crooks on the PNB and those JUC thugs don't get what they want out of it.
Stevie DeeBee is good. I like his sound effect of the sound of a crowd of thousands cheering.
DeleteLive Long and Proper.
Berthold Reimers should be dropped off on a Prison Planet.
No more TPCS or "Out FM." The sharks really are circling.
ReplyDeleteGiven Emmanuel Goldstein's withering criticism of station management, I'm amazed (though happy) he's still on WBAI. When the station goes dark, I hope he and his show find a new home. He and Ivan Hametz probably have the most integrity of WBAI producer/hosts.
Emanuel Goldstein makes my skin crawl. I don't know what the hell his show is about and couldn't care less. He is an arrogant "individual". Without WBAI he couldn't sell his tabloid. He worships trash like Julian Assange. Throw this garbage out, too. Along with Scott Sommer. Keep Vajra; at least her voice is sexy. Speaking of sexy voices, where is Delfine Blue?
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Delphine had musical knowledge and good taste. One day, she waked in to the station, heard Tony Bates and Kathy Davis push double helix water as a cure, it was, of course not that, sio Delphine became depressed and Walked out, showing that she also had integrity. She won my admiration that day.
DeleteI miss Delphine Blue. But I respect her saying "no" to the charlatans.
DeleteThrow David Rothenberg out at last. He's a race apologist like Mimi. "Every illegal thing that a black criminal does is because of race oppression. Take him to a Broadway show and that will cure him of all his criminal inclinations". Basta ya.
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I have known Davi sine the Sixties, when his head was screwed on correctly. Reimers obviously keeps him on the air because that ticket thing he had going brought in some money.
DeleteYou are right about David's compliance with the racism that is choking all life out of WBAI.
They have to throw out everybody besides Kathy Davis. Otherwise, there won't be enough room for her at WBAI headquarters.
Delete"I have known David since the Sixties, when his head was screwed on correctly".
DeleteYou mean he was straight then?
KGT
No, that's not what I mean, KGT. I hope you are fully aware of that.
DeleteI used to like listening to David. But he really is turning into a bitter, senile old man.
DeleteYes, that's very sad, because he did a lot of good in the old days at WBAI.
DeleteThe Personal Computer Show is off because they didn't "Kick Up". Pure Mafiosi revenge.
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As a caller suggested, the Personal Computer Show isn't black enough. Sad to say, that's a valid point these days. WBAI is sinking into pit of incompetence, unspeakably bad programming and raceism--all the product of clueless mismanagement.
DeleteHey- Hank Kee is either Chinese or Korean- Let's call Sharpton- This is racial discrimination. No Justice-No Peace.
DeleteKGT
Not black enough? What does that even mean? Its the Personal Computer Show.
DeleteWhat's the real reason for cancelling the show?
Besides Berthold Reimers' ignorance and ineptitude, the PC Show never deals with slavery, nor have the small minds at WBAI figured out a way to link slavery with the computer world.. It must be terribly frustrating for the resident racists.
DeleteThe electronic interface for IDE/PATA hard drives have MASTER and SLAVE settings.
DeleteMaybe that was the problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA
WBAI used to have a development director, a black bigot named Lois Henry. She would tell programmers their programs were "too white". WBAI has a long history of black narrowcasting. Reimers is continuing that tradition.
DeleteRemember earlier this year how Hank Kee told us Reimers wanted to add a younger Black or Hispanic person to the cast of TPCS? Well, after a couple of weeks, we didn't hear about it anymore. I wonder how much that had to do with the cancellation, since it never happened.
ReplyDeleteI still want to know what Hank Kee told John Proffitt during hid WBAI trip. It may or may not be relevant to the cancellation, but it was said by people present that Proffitt was rattled by it.
Look, we know Reimers was out to get rid of TPCS for a while. It just so happened he did it now. I'd love to see the letter they mentioned.
I feel sorry for people owed premiums from TPCS because you know that they'll never get them now. WBAI isn't putting any priority into sending out premiums for a cancelled show, since there won't even be any pressure from the gone show to send anything.
SDL
How the hell many times is Credico on per day? Is he the new Monroe?
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Better than TPCS or Out FM, obviously. Amazing how WBAI is resting their future on a jerk like Credico. They must want to lose listeners and money because, if not, they are so out of touch with reality that it is, at least, some sort of borderline insanity.
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Reimers is turning WBAI into a radio version of Detroit, Milwaukee, Newark, Gary, Chicago, Dinkins era (2,000 murders) NYC.
ReplyDeleteFailure of a black run organization is always due to white people.
Years ago Robert Knight broadcast a Sinister FarraKLAN speech where when Colin Ferguson, the LIRR shooter, name was mentioned, the NOI/FOI congregation cheered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Long_Island_Rail_Road_shooting