Tim,<br> I had worked in the News Dept for 7 years and just before Annie retired, she had an extra 30 minutes of news in the form of interviewing a person of interest. At the time, there was an effort to qualify the expanded news for grant $. No word ever since on funding the dept. to any degree through grants.<br><br>Tim Bray <tbray@wildblue.net> wrote:<br><br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">John - Your plan for where the money
should go includes at least one thing John Coate is already
planning: the Ukiah studio, plans for which were presented in the
July 2013 General Manger's Report. I hope you won't try to take
credit for that when it happens; it's been in the works for a long
time. And I don't recall anyone ever alleging that KMEC (or any
other radio station) was "the enemy."<br>
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We'll just have to continue disagreeing about the value of OL,
which I (and others) found to be difficult listening.<br>
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Community News never was 60 minutes long, not even when we had 2
full-time news people.<br>
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I would love to hear how you are helping bring about any of the
things you mention in your last 4 bullets. Anyone can come up
with a bunch of great ideas, especially for other people's labor.
If you are serious about any of those things, put your own
resources to work on them. The GM Reports also contain
information about the efforts to bring new programmers and new
public-affairs programmers into the station lineup; are you
helping with any of that? <br>
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Tim Bray<br>
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On 2/24/2014 1:28 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sako4@comcast.net">sako4@comcast.net</a> wrote:<br>
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where the money should go:</div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">How about a Ukiah
studio? KZYX is too Anderson Valley-centric. How about
a collaboration between KZYX and Ukiah-based KMEC?
KMEC is not the enemy.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">How about restoring
free speech to KZYX by returning the now-canceled
"Open Lines", and its indefinitely suspended, popular
host, Doug McKenty, to the air? Maybe public comment
in an open forum isn't such a bad idea for truly a
"public", public radio station. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">How about restoring
"Community News" to 60 minutes, instead of the skimpy
10 minutes we now get? And even those 10 minutes are
two talking heads, who call themselves reporters,
reading parts of press releases and newspaper articles
-- pathetic.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">How about training
community journalism volunteers -- stringers -- that
can supplement KZYX's very part-time News Department?
About about a program like KMUD's Community Journalism
Project? This will enable more coverage of local arts,
entertainment, politics, public affairs, and
environmental issues.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">How about working with
Mendocino College and College of the Redwoods to
create campus radio stations? Low-power licenses, like
at KMEC, with a maximum broadcast of 100 watts, are
entirely feasible.</span></li>
<li><font size="3">How about an outreach program to
recruit and </font>train<font size="3"> Pomo
Native American Indian programmers to have their own
shows? Here in Mendocino County, we have one of the
largest per-capita populations of Native Americans in
the U.S., yet we have no shows for our Pomo neighbors.
Twenty-five years ago, KZYX's original license
application to the FCC and KZYX's appropriations
justification to the CPB made a big deal out of
Mendocino County's Native American population, but
once we got the licenses and the money, we forgot
about them. This is KZYX's biggest fraud, in my
opinion. Our biggest source of embarrassment.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">How about more edgy programs? A Green
Party show? A Libertarian Party show? A conspiracy
theory show? A medical marijuana show? Why does
William Courtney, M.D. -- the country's
leading researcher on the power of juicing raw
cannabis -- have to take his show all the way to KMUD
in Redway. Dr. Courtney lives in Willits. Why is all
programming so "safe" and "mainstream" at KZYX? Why
does one person -- the Program Director -- have total
control over programming? And why isn't an Program
Advisory Committee in place to ensure listeners get
what listeners want?</font></li>
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