Peconic Public Broadcasting, which recently bid over $850,000 to buy non-commercial WLIU-FM (88.3) in Southampton, New York, has yet to raise the full purchase price. The New York Daily News says Peconic is currently over $500,000 short of its goal, and that could bring the end to local public programming for the station. PPB president Dr. Wallace Smith tells the newspaper that the worse-case scenario is the Hamptons will “lose its ­local programming.” Peconic made the offer to buy WLIU from Long Island University after the school sold the station to cut costs and get it off-campus. Peconic is now turning to the wealthy celebrities on the East End of Long Island to bail them out, but so far big money donors haven’t materialized. The newspaper says actor and Hamptons-area resident Alec Baldwin was approached, but wouldn’t help.