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Radio station's livestream - see the "listen" button - WKCR 89.9FM NY

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[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wow they are extremely not allowed to do that holy shit.

Would've loved to be a fly on the wall for the ensuing meeting with whomever gave the order for that one.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

I have zero idea why it happened but in my mind's eye a uni bigshot had the bright idea to shutdown the station as a demonstration of power. Then a yes man (or two or three) started the process until somebody lower down in the food chain said something like "I don't think we can do this..." And maybe the impetus for all of this was that same bigshot (or yet another one) got annoyed by the livestream and their coverage of the protest and those in power wanted it killed and killed right away.

In any case - I assume tomorrow there will be lots of lying by those in power and a focus on the passive voice plus words like "miscommunication" to explain this mess.

[–] Lucien@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

The person who gave the order is obviously not FCC licensed lol

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let me guess. This was for the cardinal sin of opposing genocide?

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wish I had context for this situation. Did it happen before at other universities and colleges during the Vietnam War? It's sort of amazing to me how powerful Israel is in the US.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 2 years ago

I think it's less about how powerful Israel is and more about why the ultra wealthy and powerful Americans unconditionally want to commit old-school settler-colonial genocide in the name of "strategic interests".

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago

Excited to call upon my onetime experience as a college radio station manager here and say that the FCC's very strict requirements about dead air produce a kind of funny opportunity here to get your university fined big bucks if they send their private security staff to tell you stop broadcasting.

https://bsky.app/profile/sorenspicknall.bsky.social/post/3kqmfscdcb42i

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

A journalist's post that I used to grab the screenshot.

Update from Columbia's student radio station WKCR tonight

https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3kqmflezxps2l

[–] davel@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

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[–] Leon_Frotsky@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

>open up the student radio
>they're playing the literal worst music i've ever heard

angry-hex

edit: the sax just came in, this is pretty cool actually squirtle-jam

[–] RangeFourHarry@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago