The 38-year-old “PBS NewsHour” began a new era, adding Saturday and Sunday newscasts for the first time and preparing for the debut on Sept 9 of Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff as the new weeknight anchor team and the first female co-anchors at any network.
Democracy May Prove the Doom of WBAI
Filed Under: Benton Headlines
WBAI likes to call itself “radio for the 99 percent.” But most of the time the station — a listener-supported and proudly scrappy mainstay of the left since 1960 — is lucky to be heard by 0.1 percent of the New York radio audience. That disparity, and the teetering finances of the station and its owner, the nonprofit Pacifica Foundation, became apparent with a tearful on-air announcement by Summer Reese, Pacifica’s interim executive director, that the station was laying off 19 of its 29 employees just to cover basic expenses like the rent for its transmitter atop the Empire State Building.