it has just come to everybody's attention that WBAI(99.5FM in New York City) has cancelled Tuesday Night's comic book radio show called "Nuff Said."

it has been on for nine years, in almost as many time slots. the main host Ken Gale( nuffsaid@escape.com ) has made it abundantly clear that this show is finally dead.

that is unless we as a community of people can get together and convince Mr. Bernard White, the Programing Director at BAI that this show is VERY relevant and VERY important.

I've done my part; I've emailed Mr. White at burnardwhite@aol.com

The cancellation of Nuff Said was unfair. its a fairly high-rated show, and has many many listeners. the rest of BAI's programming schedule seems to revolve around political issues(BAI is a listener-sponsored, non-commercial radio station that focuses a lot of attention on the underside of the world's socio-economic-political systems. However, Nuff Said never pigeonholed itself; it kept an open mind about any and ALL aspects of cartooning and comics; mainstream, alternative, political, sexual, racial, foreign, local, underground, Golden Age, Silver Age, current day, etc.

no matter what your interest in comics is, there was at least ONE "Nuff Said" show that you would have had an interest.

you could have also heard Nuff Said on the internet, anywhere in the country(world?). www.comicbookradioshow.com is the new website(the original was actually "hijacked" and turned into a porn site against the creators' will). the new site should be up and running 24-hours from now, according to Mr. Gale.

In the meantime, another BAI program "Carrier Wave" with Sidney Smith will allot a certain amount of showtime to keeping "Nuff Said" alive. That's teamwork!
so email, call the station(I don't have the numbers, sorry) and help save an excellent program.

again, even outside of New York, you ca catch the show on www.comicbookradioshow.com if and when its saved. until then, that site will have news about where the show will be appearing and so on.

go comics.

-Darryl Brathwaite.

Darryl, thanks for clearing up what happened to the old website! One question: Bernard White's e-mail address doesn't seem to match the spelling of his name. Are you sure it's correct?

In an area where it seems impossible to hold a decent convention but where the Big Two comics companies are actually situated, Nuff Said has been a terrific and indispensable part of the NYC comics scene. It would be a shame to lose it.

- Elayne

Darryl, here are the ways to contact the station.


To mail: Bernard White, c/o WBAI-FM, 120 Wall Street, 12th Floor, NYC 10005.

To call: 212-209-2800 (station phone number) or 212-209-2834 (Mr. White's office number)

It would a damn shame if we lose this radio show because it's the only one around in the US. I called Ken and found out there was another radio show like Nuff Said, yet it's in Western Canada.

We, the fans, creators and publishers, have to save this show. It's our right to save it! Except for Howie Stern (my preference), The Golden Age of Radio with Max Schimd (also on WBAI) and the all-news stations, there's nothing really good on radio. No one wants to hear boring, self-inflated conservatives like Limbore and O'wRetched all the time.

Yes, Elayne, the e-mail address is correct.

I was a regular listener to Nuff Said and I am surprised it lasted as long as it did. When Ken's partner left a year or so back, I saw the writing on the wall. I don't think Ken was able to produce the show as well alone. Also, I hate to say it, but the show's performance was pretty dismal when it came to pledge drives, especially for a evening show. I think BAI let them hang on for a good while, but the show was pretty much out of step with the station's listenership.

"Can I give a message? I'd just like to say, um... let's have some music now, huh?"

Uh, John, "Nuff Said" is, or was, the only comic book radio show around. You want it to go down? You're a real fanboy, pal.


:rolleyes:

Scout, if you keep misinterpretin' my joke posts you're gonna give me a complex. It was a joke for Mr. Knowles' benefit, and for anyone else who's familiar with the Clash. Hardly worth gettin' all snitty about. (Even if you didn't get the joke, the quotation marks mighta tipped you off that I wasn't trying to piss on yer parade.)

This marks the first time I've ever been called a fanboy.

Thank you for clearing that up. I apologize.

All's well. Get on them e-mails, folks!

He doesn't. Mercy is now his co-host on the show as well as in life.

- Elayne