{"id":7944,"date":"2013-08-12T07:23:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T11:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=7944"},"modified":"2013-08-12T07:26:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T11:26:36","slug":"wbai-fm-succumbs-to-the-death-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=7944","title":{"rendered":"WBAI-FM succumbs to the death spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbai.org\/\">WBAI<\/a> has money left for is the transmitter bill at the Empire State Building.<\/p>\n<p>They won&#8217;t be able to make payroll, so all of the on-air staff has been laid off.  They can&#8217;t keep paying the $40k\/month for their building on Wall Street in New York City.   They owe a lot of money to the company that produces Democracy Now.  They have been in fund raising mode all year and no money is coming in.<\/p>\n<p>The goose is cooked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stream.wbai.org\/64kmp3stereo.pls\">http:\/\/stream.wbai.org\/64kmp3stereo.pls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How could Obama let this happen?<\/p>\n<p>WBAI-FM is 4,300 watts and reaches all of New York City.  I bet CBS would make them an offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing WBAI has money left for is the transmitter bill at the Empire State Building. They won&#8217;t be able to make payroll, so all of the on-air staff has been laid off. They can&#8217;t keep paying the $40k\/month &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=7944\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7944"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7949,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944\/revisions\/7949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}