'A Complete Shock:' Long-Running Freeform Radio Station WBAI Abruptly Shut Down

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63. I've been a community radio dj for 45 years

NPR is the homogenization of mediocre. When it first started I had hope but they were into privatization of public radio. The whole idea of public radio was not to have just one voice or opinion nationwide but a number of voices, like at least one per town as an alternative to whatever was coming from the privately owned am or fm. NPR is like the MacDonalds of radio
Pacifica is, or at least was, way too ideological. They had moments like the birth of the Firesign Theater but that was intelligent people breaking the rules, usually discreetly since they were the ones taking LSD. I was one of those.
The last station I did a show on became, contractually the voice of NPR for the immediate area. That was until a college station undercut us and basically gave themselves to NPR. Funny how that worked. My station his since gone bankrupt. It’s been bought up by Christian radio. That and Mexican radio is what you’ll get anymore.