<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font color="#005493">Hi Liz,</font><div><font color="#005493"><br></font><div><font color="#005493">My hunch is that MaryA is ALSO responsible for keeping </font></div><div><font color="#005493">the CPB Grant going, too . . . lotza, lotza, lotza paperwork </font></div><div><font color="#005493">associated </font></div><div><font color="#005493">with getting the grant each year from the outfit </font></div><div><font color="#005493">that was created “so that little stations </font></div><div><font color="#005493">could afford to pay for NPR programming.” </font></div><div><font color="#005493">The CPB also awards a significant amount to</font></div><div><font color="#005493">NPR to create said programming.</font></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493">It seems like if you added up the “cost” of that programming</font></div><div><font color="#005493">+ “expense” of staff time filing for (and fulfilling) CPB grant requirements,</font></div><div><font color="#005493">you’d have little left over. Especially in these times of grant </font></div><div><font color="#005493">reductions</font></div><div><font color="#005493">across the board (ever smaller pie, more plates to fill).</font></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493">Not to mention that it’s probably currently tough for KZ </font></div><div><font color="#005493">to sell <b>local</b> underwriting on a station that already has </font></div><div><font color="#005493">deafened the ears</font></div><div><font color="#005493">of its listeners (all “potential underwriters”) </font></div><div><font color="#005493">with so much advertising-in-sheeps-clothing</font></div><div><font color="#005493">such as we hear before, during, and after each NPR program!</font></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><b>The above must surely create stress for (any) staff. </b></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493">But what really gets my goat is that:</font></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493">1) E<b>very hour of NPR programming has at least three (3) </b></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><b>(very deep pocket, i.e. large corporate funded) underwriters</b></font></div><div><font color="#005493">. . . yet KZ has to shell out 40-50k/annum</font></div><div><font color="#005493">for the “privilege” </font></div><div><font color="#005493">of providing NPR </font></div><div><font color="#005493">airtime + demographic</font></div><div><font color="#005493">(so that they justify the cost of that underwriting)</font></div><div><font color="#005493">—> to pay Terry Gross $250k/annum(!?!)</font></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#005493">==> Shouldn’t the warring hoardes be taking up <i>that</i> charge with</font></div><div><font color="#005493">“the powers that be” in D.C.? Rather than bickering over local staff salaries?</font></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#005493">Since Coate left, there has been a lot of positive change. Keep it up.</font></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><i>i.e. Let’s raise funds locally, and then decide how/what/whom</i></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><i>to spend them on. Yes? </i> <i>CPB forms are getting more and more complicated,</i></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><i>while their funding is constantly on the chopping block. </i></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><i>I noticed during the recent pledge drive that </i></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><i>locally-produced </i></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><i>news and music programs rec’d far more $$ in pledges than NPR slots did.</i></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><i>Is your listening audience trying to tell you something? </i></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><i><br></i></font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 84, 147);">2) W</span><b style="color: rgb(0, 84, 147);">e hear the same NPR programs repeated two, three times a day!</b></div><div><font color="#005493">Does KZ pay out for each repetition? Does KZ get billed by the program, </font></div><div><font color="#005493">or by the hours of programming aired by NPR? </font></div><div><font color="#005493"><i>Perhaps MaryA can jump in and clear this up . . .why so many repeats? . . .</i></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><i>rather than more music? </i></font></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 84, 147);">3) </span><b style="color: rgb(0, 84, 147);">RadioLab, (a weekly NPR program that I’ve often enjoyed over the years) </b></div><div><font color="#005493"><b>has aired </b></font><b><font color="#005493">the same “Story of Utne” show</font></b></div><div><font color="#005493"><b>for four, five weeks in a row!</b> (If I hear the story of Utne one more time </font></div><div><font color="#005493">I shall . . .a)tear my hair out, b) scream, c) hike to the highest mt. top </font></div><div><font color="#005493">and lay me head down on a rock while praying to be “flash-frozen”. . . .</font></div><div><font color="#005493">just like poor Utne was back in the day, 5,000 years ago.</font></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493">Can I get a witness?</font></div><div><font color="#005493">~C.</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 4, 2015, at 9:55 AM, Liz Helenchild <<a href="mailto:deejayliz@yahoo.com">deejayliz@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9111">Bottom line: Program Director is responsible for keeping the steady stream of programming going out on air. Job description may differ according to place, time, etc.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9125"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9112">Liz (former PD at K-elsewhere)<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9009"><span></span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9013" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9012" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9011" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9035" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9010" size="2" face="Arial"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9050"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9049" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> King Collins <<a href="mailto:king@greenmac.com">king@greenmac.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org">kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, November 4, 2015 8:55 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Kzyxtalk] "fact" checking<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9015" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv1014240657"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9014">Fact checking _ work of the Program Director<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9021"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9017"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9016"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9020">Jim Heid wrote:</div><br class="yiv1014240657Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9019" type="cite"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9018" class="yiv1014240657Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 18px;">Do you know what a program director does, John? I do -- my father was one for many years at radio stations in San Francisco, Tuscon, and Pittsburgh.</span></blockquote></div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9051">It would be much more interesting to be more empirical. Jim, you know your technical stuff and you are very personable (collegial). You and Bob (Laughton) have a very good program "Point and Click."</div><div><br></div><div>1)What, in your view, is the work of a Program Director? I'd like us to be more scientific about the discussion, which includes laying out what the discussion is about. </div><div><br></div><div>Some questions for Jim:</div><div><br></div><div>And also, to understand this we need to know more about your Dad's experience. I don't mean these questions to be personal. But the nice thing about your Dad's experience is that it actually happened!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9084"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9083">2) What kind of technology did he use?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9082"><br></div><div>3) What was the demographic of his stations? Size of potential listening audience? Power of the transmitters </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9081"><br></div><div>5) Were they commercial or public or community stations, urban or rural.</div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9080">Thanks for bringing this discussion down to earth.</div><div><br></div><div>For KZYXtalk,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9079">King Collins</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9078">KZYX board member 2003-2005</div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Kzyxtalk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org">Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>