Colorado Media Newsroom
April 10th, 2024, 05:47 PM
From Radio Insight:
https://radioinsight.com/wp-content/images/2017/01/wbai-200x146.jpgPacifica Foundation’s 99.5 WBAI (https://www.wbai.org) New York is once again on the verge of being evicted from a tower site in Manhattan.
The station has launched an “Emergency Tower Fund” seeking to raise $200,000 to fend off being forced off the air. In a press release, WBAI General Manager Berthold Reimers writes, “WBAI is facing an existential threat. This is not hyperbole. WBAI owes $150,000.00 to 4 Times Square which houses our transmitter, which enables us to transmit our signal to reach a 90-mile radius. But WBAI could be shut down at any moment and that would be the end of WBAI.”
WBAI relocated to the antenna atop 4 Times Square in 2018 after a multi-year legal battle with the Empire State Building over $1,819,687.52 in unpaid rent (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/167630/pacifica-wbai-to-move/) that eventually led to the Foundation receiving a $2 million bridge load from supporters of 90.7 KPFK Los Angeles to avoid the building’s ownership from claiming WBAI’s license in an asset seizure (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/122304/pacifca-foundation-secures-emergency-loan-stave-off-esrt-seizure/).
As of this writing, WBAI has received just over $26,000 in donations towards the $200,000 goal.
more (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/267334/wbai-in-danger-of-being-evicted-from-another-new-york-tower/)
https://radioinsight.com/wp-content/images/2017/01/wbai-200x146.jpgPacifica Foundation’s 99.5 WBAI (https://www.wbai.org) New York is once again on the verge of being evicted from a tower site in Manhattan.
The station has launched an “Emergency Tower Fund” seeking to raise $200,000 to fend off being forced off the air. In a press release, WBAI General Manager Berthold Reimers writes, “WBAI is facing an existential threat. This is not hyperbole. WBAI owes $150,000.00 to 4 Times Square which houses our transmitter, which enables us to transmit our signal to reach a 90-mile radius. But WBAI could be shut down at any moment and that would be the end of WBAI.”
WBAI relocated to the antenna atop 4 Times Square in 2018 after a multi-year legal battle with the Empire State Building over $1,819,687.52 in unpaid rent (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/167630/pacifica-wbai-to-move/) that eventually led to the Foundation receiving a $2 million bridge load from supporters of 90.7 KPFK Los Angeles to avoid the building’s ownership from claiming WBAI’s license in an asset seizure (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/122304/pacifca-foundation-secures-emergency-loan-stave-off-esrt-seizure/).
As of this writing, WBAI has received just over $26,000 in donations towards the $200,000 goal.
more (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/267334/wbai-in-danger-of-being-evicted-from-another-new-york-tower/)