<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px">I'm here. Back 2u after perusing.<br><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413515695733_33764"><span></span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413515695733_33767" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413515695733_33766" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413515695733_33765" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413515695733_33768" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Marco McClean <memo@mcn.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 16, 2014 9:02 PM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413515695733_33770"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413515695733_33769" style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Kzyxtalk] Memo of the Air - Good Night Radio will be on KMEC as well as KNYO.<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413515695733_33771" class="y_msg_container"><br>I'm about to send this to the AVA. Look it over for me, would you?<br><br>--------------------------<br><br>Dear Editor:<br><br> Here's my email address: <a ymailto="mailto:memo@mcn.org" 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><br> 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><br> 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><br> 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><br> 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><br> 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><br> 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><br>--Marco McClean<br><a ymailto="mailto:memo@mcn.org" href="mailto:memo@mcn.org">memo@mcn.org</a><br><a href="http://memooftheair.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://memooftheair.wordpress.com</a><br><br>[end]<br><br>(Please print the email address and the URL.)<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kzyxtalk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org" href="mailto:Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org">Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk" target="_blank">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>