John Fisk (died December 20, 2004) was an American radio personality based in
New York City
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, associated with the
Pacifica Foundation
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's
WBAI-FM
WBAI (99.5 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station licensed to New York, New York. Its programming is a mixture of political news, talk and opinion from a left-leaning, liberal or progressive viewpoint, and eclectic music. T ...
.
During the 1970s and 1980s Fisk was the host of ''Digressions'', a weekly late-night
free form radio
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show on WBAI.
Fisk also served as broadcast consultant to the
Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church for over twenty years, producing broadcasts of Poetry Project readings for WBAI.
References
*Greg Fuchs
"John Fisk, 1943-2004" ''Boog City'' (Feb. 2005) (retrieved September 16, 2009).
*R. Paul Martin, "John Fisk 1946-2004"
(retrieved September 16, 2009).
Radio personalities from New York City
Year of birth missing
2004 deaths
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