<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">Marco,</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">May I read parts of your letter at the next KZYX Board meeting? Although, Coate and Aigner pulled the plug on my show (for now) because I spoke out with many of the same concerns about salaries that you expressed so well in your excellent letter, I still remain on the Board. I'd like to read your letter into the record.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">You may see my post about salaries and other issues in the AVA's "Mendocino County" for October 17. If you don't subscribe to the blog, just ask me for the post.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Thank you.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">John </div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Marco McClean" <memo@mcn.org><br><b>To: </b>"kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, October 16, 2014 9:02:56 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Kzyxtalk] Memo of the Air - Good Night Radio will be on KMEC as well as KNYO.<br><div><br></div>I'm about to send this to the AVA. Look it over for me, would you?<br><div><br></div>--------------------------<br><div><br></div>Dear Editor:<br><div><br></div> Here's my email address: memo@mcn.org<br> And here's my weblog: http://memooftheair.wordpress.com<br> Be sure to read the About page.<br><div><br></div> 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><div><br></div> 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><div><br></div> 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><div><br></div> Just look at KMEC's schedule and website: http://kmecradio.org/<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><div><br></div> 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><div><br></div> 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><div><br></div> 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><div><br></div>--Marco McClean<br>memo@mcn.org<br>http://memooftheair.wordpress.com<br><div><br></div>[end]<br><div><br></div>(Please print the email address and the URL.)<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>Kzyxtalk mailing list<br>Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br>http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>