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13 unusual facts about WBAI


Andree Connors

At the time of the first publication of Amateur People in 1977, Connors was interviewed on WBAI in New York on Big Al's Literary Salon & Pool Hall by Alen Pol Kobryn.

Danny Kalb

At the age of 15 Kalb formed the band Gay Notes, and 1961 performed with Bob Dylan on a WBAI-FM concert broadcast.

Helen Caldicott

She also hosted a weekly radio show on WBAI (Pacifica) and became the Founding President of the STAR (Standing for Truth About Radiation) Foundation.

Hour of the Wolf

WBAI's longest-running radio program takes its name from the film.

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Around that time, she also co-founded Beyond the Pale: The Progressive Jewish Radio Hour, a radio program aired weekly on WBAI (99.5 FM) which “mixes local, national, and international political debate and analysis, from a progressive Jewish perspective with the voices and sounds of contemporary Jewish culture”.

Miguel Algarín

The Café also has a radio broadcast on WBAI, where Algarín starts the broadcast with his signature "We're live from the Nuyorican Poets Café".

Randy Wicker

When WBAI radio broadcast a panel of psychiatrists who espoused the sickness theory of homosexuality, Wicker persuaded the station manager to put him and several other openly gay people on the air to "rap" about their lives.

Samori Marksman

He was also the Program Director of radio station WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York City.

A strong advocate for the oppressed, Marksman’s popular programs Behind the News and World View on WBAI offered in-depth analyses of the news from a perspective that was largely absent from the mainstream press.

Spying on Democracy

Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance is a book by Heidi Boghosian, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, and co-host of Pacifica's WBAI weekly civil liberties radio program, "Law and Disorder."

Terrence E. McNally

For more than 15 years, McNally has hosted Free Forum on Pacifica Radio stations KPFK and WBAI.

William DiFazio

He has also been a co-producer and co-host of the show City Watch on local radio station WBAI 99.5 FM since March 2000.

He is also co-host and co-producer of the radio show, City Watch on WBAI 99.5 FM.


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