<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">KXXX,Why-ZZZZzzzzz..... "oleaginous" </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">What a great word. Thanks, Marco.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Marco McClean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:memo@mcn.org" target="_blank">memo@mcn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm about to send this to the AVA. Look it over for me, would you?<br>
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Dear Editor:<br>
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Here's my email address: <a href="mailto:memo@mcn.org">memo@mcn.org</a><br>
And here's my weblog: <a href="http://memooftheair.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://memooftheair.wordpress.com</a><br>
Be sure to read the About page.<br>
<br>
Here are a couple of free offers to the general public: 1. Email<br>
me me and I'll put you on my list for a weekly notification that the<br>
recording of each new Memo of the Air show is up for listening and<br>
downloading. 2. If you write something you want me to read on the air<br>
--poetry, public service publicity, art, science, fiction, kvetching,<br>
whatever-- email it to me and I'll read it on the air. It's just like<br>
all the papers I published and my old show on KMFB; I promise to air<br>
everyone who wants to be aired and even a few who don't want to be.<br>
That's the way all media, not just radio, should work: Let people in and<br>
lift people up. I appreciate that it's the way the Anderson Valley<br>
Advertiser does it, and that's why I often read from the AVA on my show.<br>
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For the past two years I've been doing my show, /Memo of the Air -<br>
Good Night Radio/ on KNYO-LP in Fort Bragg (107.7fm) every Friday night<br>
from 9pm until I get tired or run out of material --usually that's some<br>
time around 3 or 4am. KNYO is a low power station that reaches Fort<br>
Bragg and Caspar.<br>
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Soon I'll be on KMEC-LP in Ukiah, too. Ed Nieves is working out the<br>
details of whether they'll pick me up live in progress at midnight and<br>
drop off when I drop off or they'll play a recording of my entire KNYO<br>
show the next night starting at midnight. Probably KMEC will set their<br>
automation to step on my show for a moment at the top of every hour and<br>
run their recorded ID-- that's what I want; it's the easiest way.<br>
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Just look at KMEC's schedule and website: <a href="http://kmecradio.org/" target="_blank">http://kmecradio.org/</a><br>
They are clearly doing it right, and like KNYO they're doing it on<br>
a budget a microscopic fraction of KZYX's. Here, see how right they're<br>
doing it: I'll be on the air at KMEC within a few short weeks of when I<br>
first approached them with the idea. (I was on the air at KNYO starting<br>
in 2012 within a week of contacting Bob Young, as I was on KMFB starting<br>
in 1997 within a week of contacting Bob Woelfel.) I'm so looking forward<br>
to getting back the writers in the Ukiah area who used to send me<br>
material because of KMFB. I'm thrilled that this is happening.<br>
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Which reminds me --and you can skip the rest of this if you want to<br>
stop at the end of the happy part; I wouldn't blame you-- I and a number<br>
of others still want our shows on KZYX. After many years of applying and<br>
contacting and visiting and waiting and getting some really unpleasant<br>
treatment it seems unlikely that will ever happen, regarding my show,<br>
anyway, and it's a shame. Maybe one day the management will turn over or<br>
have an epiphany or something and things will change, but I have trouble<br>
imagining it, not because my imagination is faulty but because<br>
everything about the management of KZYX --an organization that has<br>
sucked down literally millions of taxpayers' dollars in its twenty-five<br>
years of existence-- is and has always been oppressively opaque. I mean,<br>
it could be they're desperately hanging on by their fingernails just to<br>
keep their petty power and ridiculously inflated salaries, or it could<br>
be they're being directed by fermented forces of wine money or<br>
oleaginous forces of Koch money, or it might be they have a nest of<br>
alien snakes in their heads, the way most commercial radio stations'<br>
owners do, which is pretty much the same thing.<br>
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It's most likely that they just don't know any better and they<br>
don't want to learn. They can't grasp that smart, experienced, valuable<br>
people might dislike being treated like bugs, and they think that we<br>
can't possibly be all that smart if we don't know to keep our mouths<br>
shut about injustice the way the sort of people they allow to keep their<br>
shows do, you know, if we really want their permission to be on the<br>
public air. And maybe they really don't see the injustice they're doing.<br>
They don't think they're doing anything wrong because the result is they<br>
have what they want, and for them that's the definition of right, and<br>
the few people who prosper under and around them naturally agree.<br>
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If that's the case, boardmembers of KZYX, then the solution is to<br>
ask your manager and program director if they're in it for the money or<br>
for the love of radio. And when they say it's for the love of radio, cut<br>
their salaries to the rate the programmers are paid, which is zero, and<br>
then you'll see how much love for radio they really have. That also<br>
solves having to do weeks of egregiously unlistenable pledge drives just<br>
to pay management to organize weeks of egregiously unlistenable pledge<br>
drives, universally reviled as the worst radio ever. Come on, be honest:<br>
pledge chuckleheads start their pitch, you change the channel or turn<br>
the radio off and do anything else; it's that bad, and that unnecessary,<br>
and that easily done away with. Put the managers on the same financial<br>
footing as the people actually doing the work. Because you can and you<br>
should. (And monkeys will fly out of my butt.)<br>
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--Marco McClean<br>
<a href="mailto:memo@mcn.org">memo@mcn.org</a><br>
<a href="http://memooftheair.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://memooftheair.wordpress.com</a><br>
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