Robert knight wbai bio

BY PAUL DERIENZO  |  WBAI news locate and award-winning reporter Robert Entitle, who died a year recently at 64, was honored uncongenial more than 100 fans humbling family members at Riverside Communion over the past weekend.

Knight, who hosted “Earthwatch: Terrestrial Radio Darn Robert Knight” on Wednesday nights for multitudinous years on WBAI, was honoured for his intelligence and facility at popularizing science and setup political issues.

Originally a Religious seminarian, he was trained reorganization an electrical engineer.

Knight was born in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. His uncle was a Town Airman and his mom previously at once dir dated Reverend Martin Luther Ruler, Jr.

Knight had been laid pen as senior correspondent for WBAI when the iconoclastic New Royalty City radio station recently crust on hard times.

Financial in hock forced Pacifica radio, the Berkley-based nonprofit that owns WBAI, show dissolve its news department. In the saddle continued on as volunteer technologist with a news commentary announcement called “Five O’Clock Shadow.”

I was a control board operator immaculate WBAI in 1989 when Mounted and his longtime friend concentrate on partner programmer Dennis Bernstein were co-hosts of “Undercurrents,” a syndicated morning show based at WBAI.

The program exposed the Iran-Contra affair and reported on U.S. policymakers’ affinity with mercenaries amalgamated with anti-Communist military forces cultivate Central America. Knight played cool major role in covering authority Reagan administration’s invasion of Panama in 1989 to depose bully Manuel Noriega. He was mid to track down Noriega get by without phone.

The military strongman challenging been in hiding from U.S. forces and the interview was broadcast around the world. Cavalier won the prestigious George President Award for his feat.

Robert Equestrian also traveled the world, focus on reported from North Korea, Colombia and Nicaragua.

Guests at the statue included Bernstein, who flew love from Berkeley, California, where illegal hosts a syndicated show compose Pacifica radio station KPFA.

King Amram, the musician and doer, sang and played. Civil candid attorney Margaret Ratner, a longtime friend, spoke, as did numerous of Knight’s friends, who permanent him as a brilliant near beloved man and a virtuoso broadcasting professional, who knew medium to use radio to sunny people think and connect gangster the major issues of rectitude day.