<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Well, Coate did indeed build a "moat" around himself as his management style became more autocratic and he isolated himself from the station's 2,100 members, surrounding himself with only those who agreed with him -- purging the rest.<br></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;"><b>From: </b>mkathrynmassey@gmail.com<br><b>To: </b>sako4@comcast.net<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, October 1, 2015 12:44:19 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: "KZYX, Better Than It Ever Was" from John Coate's new Linkedin page<br><div><br></div><div>Did he really leave such an obvious typo: Moat????? Weirdo. <br><div><br></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Oct 1, 2015, at 12:20 PM, <a href="mailto:sako4@comcast.net" target="_blank">sako4@comcast.net</a> wrote:<br><div><br></div></div><blockquote><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><br><div><br></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><div class="summary-header" style="margin: 0px; padding: 30px 35px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18px; color: #434649; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Summary</h3></div><div id="summary-item" class="editable-item section-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 35px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 17px; color: #333333;"><div id="summary-item-view" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><div class="summary" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><p class="description" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;">I was the GM of KZYX radio in Mendocino County and the Executive Director of Mendocino County Public Broadcasting from 2008 until 2015. KZYX is listener-supported public radio. It serves a wide geographic area that is quite rural. When I arrived the station was mired in debt. Moat of that debt is paid off and the station is better than it ever was.</p><p class="description" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><br></p><p class="description" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncoate" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncoate</a></p><p class="description" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><br></p><p class="description" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;">(No mention of all the conflict that Coate engendered, nor our almost two-year long FCC regulatory review, cuts in CPB funding, drop in membership numbers and underwriting revenues, and the possibility of future litigation.)</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>