<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413675679555_5367" dir="ltr"> Good to hear that other radio stations are opening to those who have been closed out of programming decisions at KZYX. I am going to put GP mill site clean up updates on KNYO as soon as the meetings are scheduled.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413675679555_5376" dir="ltr"> Sheila Dawn Tracy<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413675679555_5368"><span></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, October 17, 2014 12:49 PM, David Gurney <jugglestone@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv1746348724"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv1746348724gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;">KXXX,Why-ZZZZzzzzz..... "oleaginous" </div><div class="yiv1746348724gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1746348724gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;">What a great word. Thanks, Marco.</div><div class="yiv1746348724gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1746348724gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;">.</div></div><div class="yiv1746348724yqt8418662650" id="yiv1746348724yqt96402"><div class="yiv1746348724gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv1746348724gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Marco McClean <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:memo@mcn.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:memo@mcn.org">memo@mcn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv1746348724gmail_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 clear="none">
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Dear Editor:<br clear="none">
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Here's my email address: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:memo@mcn.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:memo@mcn.org">memo@mcn.org</a><br clear="none">
And here's my weblog: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://memooftheair.wordpress.com/">http://memooftheair.wordpress.com</a><br clear="none">
Be sure to read the About page.<br clear="none">
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Here are a couple of free offers to the general public: 1. Email<br clear="none">
me me and I'll put you on my list for a weekly notification that the<br clear="none">
recording of each new Memo of the Air show is up for listening and<br clear="none">
downloading. 2. If you write something you want me to read on the air<br clear="none">
--poetry, public service publicity, art, science, fiction, kvetching,<br clear="none">
whatever-- email it to me and I'll read it on the air. It's just like<br clear="none">
all the papers I published and my old show on KMFB; I promise to air<br clear="none">
everyone who wants to be aired and even a few who don't want to be.<br clear="none">
That's the way all media, not just radio, should work: Let people in and<br clear="none">
lift people up. I appreciate that it's the way the Anderson Valley<br clear="none">
Advertiser does it, and that's why I often read from the AVA on my show.<br clear="none">
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For the past two years I've been doing my show, /Memo of the Air -<br clear="none">
Good Night Radio/ on KNYO-LP in Fort Bragg (107.7fm) every Friday night<br clear="none">
from 9pm until I get tired or run out of material --usually that's some<br clear="none">
time around 3 or 4am. KNYO is a low power station that reaches Fort<br clear="none">
Bragg and Caspar.<br clear="none">
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Soon I'll be on KMEC-LP in Ukiah, too. Ed Nieves is working out the<br clear="none">
details of whether they'll pick me up live in progress at midnight and<br clear="none">
drop off when I drop off or they'll play a recording of my entire KNYO<br clear="none">
show the next night starting at midnight. Probably KMEC will set their<br clear="none">
automation to step on my show for a moment at the top of every hour and<br clear="none">
run their recorded ID-- that's what I want; it's the easiest way.<br clear="none">
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Just look at KMEC's schedule and website: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://kmecradio.org/">http://kmecradio.org/</a><br clear="none">
They are clearly doing it right, and like KNYO they're doing it on<br clear="none">
a budget a microscopic fraction of KZYX's. Here, see how right they're<br clear="none">
doing it: I'll be on the air at KMEC within a few short weeks of when I<br clear="none">
first approached them with the idea. (I was on the air at KNYO starting<br clear="none">
in 2012 within a week of contacting Bob Young, as I was on KMFB starting<br clear="none">
in 1997 within a week of contacting Bob Woelfel.) I'm so looking forward<br clear="none">
to getting back the writers in the Ukiah area who used to send me<br clear="none">
material because of KMFB. I'm thrilled that this is happening.<br clear="none">
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Which reminds me --and you can skip the rest of this if you want to<br clear="none">
stop at the end of the happy part; I wouldn't blame you-- I and a number<br clear="none">
of others still want our shows on KZYX. After many years of applying and<br clear="none">
contacting and visiting and waiting and getting some really unpleasant<br clear="none">
treatment it seems unlikely that will ever happen, regarding my show,<br clear="none">
anyway, and it's a shame. Maybe one day the management will turn over or<br clear="none">
have an epiphany or something and things will change, but I have trouble<br clear="none">
imagining it, not because my imagination is faulty but because<br clear="none">
everything about the management of KZYX --an organization that has<br clear="none">
sucked down literally millions of taxpayers' dollars in its twenty-five<br clear="none">
years of existence-- is and has always been oppressively opaque. I mean,<br clear="none">
it could be they're desperately hanging on by their fingernails just to<br clear="none">
keep their petty power and ridiculously inflated salaries, or it could<br clear="none">
be they're being directed by fermented forces of wine money or<br clear="none">
oleaginous forces of Koch money, or it might be they have a nest of<br clear="none">
alien snakes in their heads, the way most commercial radio stations'<br clear="none">
owners do, which is pretty much the same thing.<br clear="none">
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It's most likely that they just don't know any better and they<br clear="none">
don't want to learn. They can't grasp that smart, experienced, valuable<br clear="none">
people might dislike being treated like bugs, and they think that we<br clear="none">
can't possibly be all that smart if we don't know to keep our mouths<br clear="none">
shut about injustice the way the sort of people they allow to keep their<br clear="none">
shows do, you know, if we really want their permission to be on the<br clear="none">
public air. And maybe they really don't see the injustice they're doing.<br clear="none">
They don't think they're doing anything wrong because the result is they<br clear="none">
have what they want, and for them that's the definition of right, and<br clear="none">
the few people who prosper under and around them naturally agree.<br clear="none">
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If that's the case, boardmembers of KZYX, then the solution is to<br clear="none">
ask your manager and program director if they're in it for the money or<br clear="none">
for the love of radio. And when they say it's for the love of radio, cut<br clear="none">
their salaries to the rate the programmers are paid, which is zero, and<br clear="none">
then you'll see how much love for radio they really have. That also<br clear="none">
solves having to do weeks of egregiously unlistenable pledge drives just<br clear="none">
to pay management to organize weeks of egregiously unlistenable pledge<br clear="none">
drives, universally reviled as the worst radio ever. Come on, be honest:<br clear="none">
pledge chuckleheads start their pitch, you change the channel or turn<br clear="none">
the radio off and do anything else; it's that bad, and that unnecessary,<br clear="none">
and that easily done away with. Put the managers on the same financial<br clear="none">
footing as the people actually doing the work. Because you can and you<br clear="none">
should. (And monkeys will fly out of my butt.)<br clear="none">
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--Marco McClean<br clear="none">
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