<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div><font face="Arial" size="3">Please, Tim. Nothing ever changes at KZYX. </font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div><font face="Arial" size="3">Nothing. </font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Coate and Aigner have seen to blocking tactics time after time, despite your "genuine desire to see positive change at KZYX," as you say.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Change is blocked every damn time, Doug.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div><ul><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Doug McKenty gets indefinitely suspended on a trumped-up charge. Nothing changes. </span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"Open Lines", the station's only forum for unrestricted free speech, is cancelled until further notice -- a serious First Amendment violation. Nothing changes. </span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Two part-time news reporters are hired without posting or advertising the jobs -- a serious EEO violation. Nothing changes. </span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Coate continues to draw-down on the station's line of credit at the Savings Bank of Mendocino without disclosing those borrowings to the Board, giving him total control over station finances and further undermining the Board's fiduciary responsibilities. Nothing changes. </span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A Program Advisory Committee fails to materialize to oversee Aigner's total control over programming decisions. Nothing changes. </span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Coate unilaterally promotes himself by adding the title of Executive Director to his title of General Manager, giving him total control over station operations and further undermining the Board's oversight responsibilities. Nothing changes. </span></li><li><font face="Arial" size="3">Coate gives himself a ten per cent raise, and further gives the rest of staff raises </font><font face="Arial">sufficient</font><font face="Arial" size="3"> to have them reclassified as exempt employees, while, at the same time, eliminating the news department in the name of austerity. Nothing changes.</font></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Plans for a Ukiah studio are frustrated by having $6,000 that was collected by volunteers, for the purpose of a Ukiah studio, mysteriously disappear. Nothing changes. </span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The possibility of helping Mendocino College start a campus radio station is summarily dismissed by Coate and Aigner. Nothing changes. </span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The possibility of any collaboration with KMEC is similarly dismissed out-of-hand. Nothing changes. </span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A recruitment and training program for both off-air and on-air volunteers for the Latino and Native American Pomo communities is never even considered by Aigner and Coate -- a violation of the FCC's mandates for non-commercial stations for diversity and localism. Nothing changes.</span></li><li><font face="Arial">Christina</font><font face="Arial" size="3"> Aanestad, an outstanding reporter and presumed successor to Annie Espositio, is dismissed without cause, and even without explanation. Nothing changes.</font></li><li><font face="Arial" size="3">King Collins's attempt to communicate in a mailing at his expense to the station's 2,300 members is thwarted. Nothing changes.</font></li><li><font face="Arial" size="3">Important By-Laws of the station are ignored, including the requirements for Board committees, a Community Advisory Board (only recently started), and a Program Advisory Committee. Nothing changes</font></li></ul></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div><font face="Arial" size="3">And didn't even get to how Aigner purges notable and popular programmers who stand up to her, i.e., Dr. Richard Miller, K.C. Meadows, Els Cooperrider, and Beth Bosk. </font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="3">Or how Aigner has taken it upon herself to voice her anti-marijuana views at every turn, and to </font><font face="Arial">disparage</font><font face="Arial" size="3"> the grower community, thereby influencing how the public perceives the station on medical marijuana. To that point, William Courtney, MD, a national expert on juicing raw cannibals, was unwelcomed at KZYX and had to take his show to KMUD.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">See what I mean, Doug? </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">An FCC complaint was an extreme measure that will bring us to the brink of losing our licenses, but it was the last resort.<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Tim Bray" <tbray@wildblue.net><br><b>To: </b>kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:39:32 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Kzyxtalk] Saco4@comcast.net<br><br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">And here it is again: Sakowicz
threatening to sue KZYX. This threat was made previously on the
Programmers' list, provoking immediate censure, and now he has
made it in public.<br>
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If you were wondering whether he really has the station's best
interest in mind, or is just motivated by self-regard, here's your
answer. Sakowicz knows as well as anyone that the station could
be financially crippled by a court battle, and is trying to bully
them with threats of legal action. I don't know what his personal
finances are like, but he's a self-described "money guy," and
obviously believes he has the resources to wage a legal fight.<br>
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To those who have a genuine desire to see positive changes at KZYX
- a goal I share - please do not get tangled up with this personal
vendetta John Sakowicz has declared against John Coate. It's all
about the Sako, and your goals will get lost in his ego.<br>
<br>
Tim<br>
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On 2/11/2014 2:13 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sako4@comcast.net" target="_blank">sako4@comcast.net</a> wrote:<br>
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