<html><body>Yes. Bob Woelfel! A perfect choice. You can eliminate the business/underwriting position (which ended up being a power grab rather real monetary asset to the station). Bob is one of those perfect persons to work for/under/with. So local. So loved. So competent. --beth bosk <br /><br /><blockquote><br />----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:500px;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "" <sako4@comcast.net></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 23:13:58 +0000 (UTC)<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [Kzyxtalk] Another in a series of proposals for KZYX: Bob Woelfel for manager, program director and business coordinator.<br /><br /><br /><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><div>If Marco endorses Bob Woefel, then Woefel has got my vote.<br /></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div 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>"MCPB Board" <BOD@kzyx.org><br /><b>Cc: </b>editor@theava.com, "kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org>, discussion@lists.mcn.org<br /><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, June 16, 2015 1:43:47 PM<br /><b>Subject: </b>[Kzyxtalk] Another in a series of proposals for KZYX: Bob Woelfel for manager, program director and business coordinator.<br /><div><br /></div><br />On 6/15/2015 10:14 AM, Doug McKenty wrote:<br /> > ...Mary Aigner's fate depends on who the next manager will be, and <br />what happens in the meantime.<br /><div><br /></div> Again, if KZYX must have a manager, please put forth Bob Woelfel's <br />name. He can do all the management paperwork tasks, and the program <br />director tasks, and the ad sales (business underwriting) tasks, and the <br />intelligently-conciliating-disgruntled-members-and/or-airpeople stuff, <br />and do it all with good cheer; he's been doing it all his life since he <br />got home from military service, and he knows Mendocino County's business <br />and social and political scene like the back of his hand, and I don't <br />know anyone who doesn't like him.<br /><div><br /></div> I have seen people in the office screaming at each other and the <br />world, and he walked in, glanced at them, continued on into the kitchen, <br />ate a pickled egg, then put up his hand and said a few simple calm <br />things and they all shut up and went to do their jobs and have their <br />lives, and they were all satisfied that they'd been heard, by each other <br />and by him, and they were amused at how they'd been carrying on. It was <br />magical.<br /><div><br /></div> I can't count the times something about KMFB --a single piece of <br />equipment or a complicated system-- was seriously messed up and Bob <br />called me in to fix it, and I said something like, "That's too hard. We <br />need a whole new [fill in blank]," and he said something that put it in <br />a new light and made it easier, and I fixed it. There were times he had <br />a special project for me and I couldn't figure out how to do it, and he <br />said, "How about if we.." and it became clear, and I did it. He knew <br />that what he wanted could be done, and that made it so I did too. And <br />when it was something I wasn't qualified to touch, he knew that, and <br />he'd call one of half a dozen radio engineers he's friends with, and <br />they'd jump to help him.<br /><div><br /></div> He saw that all of us were paid. He set up a system where we were <br />responsible for bringing in advertising money for our own shows, and we <br />were paid by the hour /and/ we got a generous cut of the money we <br />contracted. This would work with noncommercial KZYX with business <br />underwriting as well as it worked for commercial KMFB, which had the <br />same broadcast range as KZYX and cost a fourth the money to operate, <br />even after paying all the airpeople and engineers.<br /><div><br /></div> He loves to practically live in the radio station, leisurely <br />accomplishing things and enjoying himself in the background and leaving <br />the independent airpeople alone to do their thing, and when he's <br />required by the more dependent airpeople he appears and helps them.<br /><div><br /></div> He attracts real radio people and lets them do their work in their <br />own way, and when someone goes entirely off the rails he waits until <br />their show is done and then tells them his concerns and they correct <br />themselves. In all the years I've known him, I'm sure he had his own <br />politics and his own opinions and /I don't know what they are/; think <br />about that for a moment, really. He gives everyone a chance to shine, no <br />matter what they believe in or are for or against.<br /><div><br /></div> That's the sort of person who should run KZYX. And once we were in <br />the printer room talking about the general subject of appropriate <br />language and he said to me, "I don't mind shit or goddammit, but if you <br />can, Marco, please hold the motherfuckers and cocksuckers until after <br />midnight." (That was the only time I ever heard him say any of those <br />words.) In all the years that Bob Woelfel oversaw KMFB there was not a <br />single audience complaint to the FCC on any subject, and KMFB was way <br />more free than KZYX has ever been, and there was no electronic profanity <br />delay nor any need for one.<br /><div><br /></div> Some people are too much. Sister Yasmin drove Bob crazy with her <br />drama and anguish and so on, yet he kept her on for nearly ever anyway, <br />and even when he was pushed beyond any administrator's endurance he <br />didn't fire her-- look at what he did: he had me build a special studio <br />just for her out at the transmitter site, so she could keep doing her <br />show and he wouldn't have the aggravation of her being all in his face <br />at the office, until she could control herself and things could be <br />normal again. See this? He didn't fire her; he made a way for her to <br />solve the problem herself, and trusted her to do it, and of course she <br />did. That's his way.<br /><div><br /></div> Some of the best people at KZYX and KOZT and probably four or five <br />other stations around here started at KMFB.<br /><div><br /></div> He helped homeless people. He brought the animal-rescue people in <br />to talk about their work, and when they were having trouble homing <br />abandoned exotic dragon-creatures he set up habitats and kept them in <br />the office and did a show about them at random with the rescue people <br />until they had homes. When an airperson couldn't afford a doctor, he <br />took him to the doctor and paid for it and let him convalesce in his own <br />apartment. He helps with local events like the Film Festival... I could <br />go on for miles, here, and not run out of reasons why Bob Woelfel should <br />run KZYX. All by himself he can handily replace John Coate, Mary Aigner, <br />David Steffen, et al., and the station will save a ton of money and will <br />improve and not continue to stagnate. He is a saint, a fricking saint<br /><div><br /></div> There is no-one else with Bob's Woelfel's skills and <br />qualifications. I admire Bob Young, who runs KNYO, and Ed Nieves, who <br />runs KMEC, but they're needed at KNYO and KMEC, and that's the only <br />reason I'm not recommending them too.<br /><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><br />-end-<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>
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