Connie Conway, WLIU News Director/ Anchor Host of the Evening Report, works in a studio at the Stonybrook University radio station in Southampton, New York, on Monday, Sep. 21, 2009. Celebrities such as Alec Baldwin and Joy Behar are among dozens backing a community effort to buy WLIU-FM from Long Island University. The university sold its Southampton College campus three years ago and now says it can no longer afford to subsidize the station. AP Photo logo AP Photo 2 months ago

Connie Conway, WLIU News Director/ Anchor Host of the Evening Report, works in a studio at the Stonybrook University radio station in Southampton, New York, on Monday, Sep. 21, 2009. Celebrities such as Alec Baldwin and Joy Behar are among dozens backing a community effort to buy WLIU-FM from Long Island University. The university sold its Southampton College campus three years ago and now says it can no longer afford to subsidize the station.

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  3. Actor Alec Bladwin arrives for the 2009 Governors Awards at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, California on November 14, 2009. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is presenting the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-executive John Calley, and Honorary Awards to actress Lauren Bacall, producer-director Roger Corman, and cinematographer Gordon Willis at the inaugural Governors Awards event.
  4. Actor Alec Bladwin arrives for the 2009 Governors Awards at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, California on November 14, 2009. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is presenting the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-executive John Calley, and Honorary Awards to actress Lauren Bacall, producer-director Roger Corman, and cinematographer Gordon Willis at the inaugural Governors Awards event.
  5. Actor Alec Bladwin arrives for the 2009 Governors Awards at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, California on November 14, 2009. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is presenting the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-executive John Calley, and Honorary Awards to actress Lauren Bacall, producer-director Roger Corman, and cinematographer Gordon Willis at the inaugural Governors Awards event.
  6. Actor Alec Bladwin arrives for the 2009 Governors Awards at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, California on November 14, 2009. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is presenting the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-executive John Calley, and Honorary Awards to actress Lauren Bacall, producer-director Roger Corman, and cinematographer Gordon Willis at the inaugural Governors Awards event.
  7. FILE-This Sept. 23, 2009 file photo shows Egyptologist Bob Brier, senior research fellow at Long Island University, examining an Egyptian mask dating from the 1st century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, Ark.
  8. FILE-This Sept. 23, 2009 file photo shows Egyptologist Bob Brier, senior research fellow at Long Island University, examining an Egyptian mask dating from the 1st century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, Ark.
  9. FILE- This Sept. 23, 2009 file photo shows Egyptologist Bob Brier, senior research fellow at Long Island University, looking at a coffin during an interview containing the 2,500-year-old mummy of Hetep-Bastet at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, Ark. The World of the Pharaohs exhibit, on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, opens Friday, Sept., 25, and runs through July 5, 2010.
  10. FILE- This Sept. 23, 2009 file photo shows Egyptologist Bob Brier, senior research fellow at Long Island University, looking at a coffin during an interview containing the 2,500-year-old mummy of Hetep-Bastet at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, Ark. The World of the Pharaohs exhibit, on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, opens Friday, Sept., 25, and runs through July 5, 2010.
  11. Wallace A. Smith, director of The Long Island University Public Radio Network, poses by the stations antenna outside the studios at the Stonybrook University radio station in Southampton, New York, on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009.
  12. Wallace A. Smith, director of The Long Island University Public Radio Network, poses in the hall outside the studios at the Stonybrook University radio station in Southampton, New York, on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. Celebrities such as Alec Baldwin and Joy Behar are among dozens backing a community effort to buy WLIU-FM from Long Island University. The university sold its Southampton College campus three years ago and now says it can no longer afford to subsidize the station.
  13. In this photo provided by ABC, co-host Joy Behar, left, watches as former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich makes a point as his wife Patti Blagojevich, right, listens, on the set of "The View," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 in New York. It was Rod Blagojevich's second appearance on the show.
  14. Wallace A. Smith, director of The Long Island University Public Radio Network, poses in the hall outside the studios at the Stonybrook University radio station in Southampton, New York, on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. Celebrities such as Alec Baldwin and Joy Behar are among dozens backing a community effort to buy WLIU-FM from Long Island University. The university sold its Southampton College campus three years ago and now says it can no longer afford to subsidize the station.
  15. Wallace A. Smith, director of The Long Island University Public Radio Network, sits at his desk in his office at the Stonybrook University radio station in Southampton, New York, on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. Celebrities such as Alec Baldwin and Joy Behar are among dozens backing a community effort to buy WLIU-FM from Long Island University. The university sold its Southampton College campus three years ago and now says it can no longer afford to subsidize the station.
  16. Connie Conway, WLIU news director/anchor host of the Evening Report, works in a studio at the Stonybrook University radio station in Southampton, New York, on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. Celebrities such as Alec Baldwin and Joy Behar are among dozens backing a community effort to buy WLIU-FM from Long Island University. The university sold its Southampton College campus three years ago and now says it can no longer afford to subsidize the station.

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