<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The notion of paying programmers is so comically impractical that it doesn’t warrant any reply more than a dismissive chortle.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*Dismissive chortle*.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Actually, let’s do a little math.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">According to the program director job description, KZYX relies on roughly 90 volunteer programmers. (<a href="http://www.kzyx.org/index.php/about-us/station-business/jobs-at-kzyx/program-director" class="">http://www.kzyx.org/index.php/about-us/station-business/jobs-at-kzyx/program-director</a>)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let’s say the station does away with the manager and divvies up that $60,000 among the volunteers. That’s $666 dollars a year per programmer. And that assumes the amount would be divided equally, and not pro-rated according to how many hours of content a programmer actually creates.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But let’s say we’ll keep the math simple and unfairly give every programmer the same amount. Exactly how is earning two dollars a day going to make a difference in the station’s content? “Oh, man, I’ve got to really up my game! I’m getting two bucks a day for this show!"</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What’s more, many shows are done by multiple hosts — Sunday Evening Jazz, for example, has four hosts, each of whom does one week. But sometimes schedules prohibit a programmer from doing his slot (it’s an all male cast right now), in which case another programmer picks up the slack.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This sort of thing happens all the time. So who do you propose handles the logistics of adjusting pay depending on whether a programmer was able to do his or her usual shifts? Or does the station install a time clock? What fun THAT would be.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or does the station institute some kind of bureacratic process of figuring out how much content a programmer produced, then paying him or her accordingly? Who’s going to tackle that adventure? One of the employees you’re proposing to do away with?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do weekends and holidays warrant overtime?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And what about taxes: are each of those 90 programmers going to want to complicate their tax returns by including 1099 income? Do each of those 90 programmers even FILE a return now?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What about worker’s comp and the other legal liabilities that the station would incur if it were to hire 90 part-time employees?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nah, I was right the first time: *dismissive chortle*. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jim</div><div class="">a proud volunteer since 1997</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 2, 2016, at 9:08 AM, <a href="mailto:kzyxtalk-request@lists.mcn.org" class="">kzyxtalk-request@lists.mcn.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Send Kzyxtalk mailing list submissions to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org" class="">kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a><br class=""><br class="">To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br class="">or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>kzyxtalk-request@lists.mcn.org<br class=""><br class="">You can reach the person managing the list at<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>kzyxtalk-owner@lists.mcn.org<br class=""><br class="">When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br class="">than "Re: Contents of Kzyxtalk digest..."<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Today's Topics:<br class=""><br class=""> 1. Re: Stuart Campbell (Tim Gregory)<br class=""> 2. Re: Fwd: A proposal, and I need your collective memory....<br class=""> (Tim Gregory)<br class=""> 3. Re: Kzyxtalk Digest, Vol 26, Issue 3 (Robotech)<br class=""> 4. A modest proposal to each KZYX airperson to expect to be paid<br class=""> to work. (Marco McClean)<br class=""> 5. Response to Marco (Richard Louis Miller)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 1<br class="">Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 18:48:46 -0800<br class="">From: "Tim Gregory" <tgregory@saber.net><br class="">Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] Stuart Campbell<br class="">To: kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br class="">Message-ID:<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><949b342150e8000acc0a3d549ad99330.squirrel@webmail.saber.net><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1<br class=""><br class="">going to smell up another board meeting, john? or just your parting shots?<br class=""> ---<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">The AVA in "Mendocino County Today" (March 1, 2016) writes: ???WHEN A SMALL<br class="">delegation of station critics went to KZYX a few weeks ago prior to regime change,<br class="">management called the cops. Post-regime change, Ms. Dechter, the new station<br class="">manager, met the same critics with cake, coffee and unimpeded access to the<br class="">information they sought. A major change for the better has happened here.???<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">The asshole who called the cops was Stuart Campbell, who was the interim GM at that<br class="">time at KZYX. He wasted scarce law enforcement resources. Three patrol cars from the<br class="">MCSO showed up at the Philo studio for the non-event. I complained to Sheriff Tom<br class="">Allman. In truth, Campbell filed a false police report.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Stuart Campbell is the same asshole who tried beating Lorraine Dechter out of the GM<br class="">job.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">How?<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">By first emphatically saying he had no interest in applying for the GM job ???<br class="">remember, Campbell was the interim GM at that time ??? then picking the chair of the<br class="">search committee, then stacking the search committee with with his buddies and<br class="">requiring the search committee to copy him on all confidential correspondence.<br class="">Stuart Campbell finally applied for the GM job only one day before the closing<br class="">deadline for applications.<br class=""><br class="">It was the most blatant conflict of interest and abuse of power that I have ever<br class="">seen at a 501-c-3.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">And to think that Campbell calls himself a ???professor of ethics???. What bullshit.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Stuart Campbell is now running for a Board seat???the programming representative.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Lorraine Dechter, watch your back!<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Kzyxtalk mailing list<br class="">Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 2<br class="">Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 18:53:28 -0800<br class="">From: "Tim Gregory" <tgregory@saber.net><br class="">Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] Fwd: A proposal, and I need your collective<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>memory....<br class="">To: kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br class="">Message-ID:<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><603aa2f805416ae6a0e9a8fff8f29dd8.squirrel@webmail.saber.net><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1<br class=""><br class="">obviously, you felt a moral responsibility to share the [partial] cc addresses for<br class="">that piece of mail, lol.<br class=""><br class="">but that you felt entitled to do that...how sad.<br class="">---<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">John,<br class="">Obviously someone "clicked" the wrong button and exposed<br class="">most or all of the "insider" e-addresses. For this Ed Snowdon<br class="">effort we should express thanks. Slowly the walls come down.<br class="">Are you a member of the Ukiah Co-op? And excellent example<br class="">of how a membership organization can be run.<br class="">The content of the Tim missive is probably beyond most every<br class="">one. I'm just happy to have the e-address list which has been<br class="">sequestered for how long?<br class="">Norman<br class=""><br class="">On Mar 1, 2016, at 5:34 PM, sako4@comcast.net wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">What does this all mean, Norman? Very confusing.<br class=""><br class="">From: "Norman de Vall" <ndevall@mcn.org><br class="">To: "kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br class="">Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 5:06:11 PM<br class="">Subject: [Kzyxtalk] Fwd: A proposal, and I need your collective memory....<br class=""><br class="">fyi<br class=""><br class="">Begin forwarded message:<br class=""><br class="">From: "Tim Gregory" <tgregory@saber.net><br class="">Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] Fwd: A proposal, and I need your collective memory....<br class="">Date: March 1, 2016 2:56:53 PM PST<br class="">To: kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br class="">Reply-To: kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br class=""><br class="">no, you were obviously a mistake to be included, and you proved it right away.<br class="">---<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">At last, we're included in the conversation:<br class=""><br class="">Begin forwarded message:<br class=""><br class="">From: "Jerry Fraley" <operations@kzyx.org><br class="">Subject: A proposal, and I need your collective memory....<br class="">Date: February 29, 2016 9:06:19 PM PST<br class="">To: "'Angela DeWitt'" <ms.adewitt@gmail.com>, "'General Manager'" <gm@kzyx.org>,<br class=""><membership@kzyx.org>, <uw@kzyx.org>, "'Barbara Lamb'" <blamb@pacific.net>, "'Bob<br class="">Vaughan'" <est.prophet@yahoo.com>, "'Cheri Christianson'" <chrisarn@mcn.org>,<br class="">"'Chris Skyhawk'" <hawkrad@mcn.org>, "'Colleen Bassett'" <colleenb@pacific.net>,<br class="">"'Dave Barre'" <dabarre@wildblue.net>, "'Diane Hering'" <dhering@pacific.net>,<br class="">"'Doug Livingston'" <livingstonconsulting@hughes.net>, "'Doug Mosel'"<br class=""><dmosel@wildblue.net>, "'Eric Labowitz'" <lab@pacific.net>, "'Floriane Weyrich'"<br class=""><fweyrich@msn.com>, "'Fred Wooley'" <freddybudd@starband.net>, "'Gordon Black'"<br class=""><gblack@mcn.org>, "'Greg Krouse'" <earthdance@saber.net>, "'Jamie Roberts'"<br class=""><jamier@mcn.org>, "'Jeffrey Blankfort'" <jblankfort@earthlink.net>, "'Jeremy<br class="">Dodds'" <Skaselecter@yahoo.com>, "'Jim Heid'" <Jim@jimheid.com>, "'Jimmy Humble'"<br class=""><jimmy@pacific.net>, "'Johanna Cummings'" <JC@wildoak.org>, "'Katharine Cole'"<br class=""><katharine@katharinecole.com>, "'Linda MacElwee'" <lsmacelwee@hotmail.com>,<br class="">"'Lorena Calvo-Evans'" <lorejim8@yahoo.com>, "'Marcia Lotter'" <mlotter@mcn.org>,<br class="">"'Marvin Trotter'" <trotterm@co.mendocino.ca.us>, "'Michael Arago'"<br class=""><mmbarago@mcn.org>, "'Norman de Vall'" <ndevall@mcn.org>, "'Patrick Gomes'"<br class=""><gomes@mcn.org>, "'Pippa Thomas'" <pipsteve@pacific.net>, "'Richard Herr'"<br class=""><eandrherr@dishmail.net>, "'Rick Blaufeld'" <rick@mendocinoguitars.com>, "'Ron<br class="">Reed'" <mrdjreed@comcast.net>, "'Steve Garner'" <Sharonart_95432@yahoo.com>, "'Tim<br class="">Bray'" <tbray@wildblue.net>, "'Verge Belanger'" <contactverge@yahoo.com><br class=""><br class="">I have a proposal in mind in regard to the Internet streaming side of the KZYX<br class="">broadcasts? Bear with me here:<br class=""><br class="">We currently create 3 streams in real-time:<br class=""> 96 Kbps, mono encoded as stereo with high sample rate (44.1Khz)<br class=""> 32 Kbps, mono encoded as ????? same sample rate [This is a target for<br class="">?dialup? users,<br class=""> and<br class="">like,<br class="">when<br class="">did<br class="">I<br class="">ever<br class="">get<br class="">32K<br class=""> on<br class="">a<br class="">dialup,<br class="">like,<br class="">um,<br class="">never]<br class=""> 96 Kbps, mono encoded as ???? (checking) for a Shoutcast server<br class=""><br class="">Now I draw upon the collective memory about the Shoutcast connection?is it used<br class="">for anything real??? The main stream is used to feed the jukebox (and more on<br class="">that later, soon?.) Shoutcast is a stream frontend, an ?Internet Radio? index of<br class="">sorts, basically micro-streamer marketing, however, this organization is a radio<br class="">station, we absolutely /are/ a marketing organization, we don?t need the shoutcast<br class="">exposure, it draws consumers away from our main product and the outlets for<br class="">consuming them.<br class=""><br class="">And in my opinion, that outlet should be of high quality.<br class=""><br class="">The proposal: I want to totally eliminate the Shoutcast stream and dedicate that<br class="">bandwidth to create a quality full-stereo stream.<br class=""><br class="">The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly<br class="">The Ugly?the small mixer that is used to control the levels on the streamer has<br class="">reached the end of it?s life. The thing operates so hot that over time the solder<br class="">connections inside are suffering, the pan pot unseats and leaves the right channel<br class="">at 0db, it?s annoying to have to check it so much.<br class=""><br class="">The Bad -- when I was untangling cables in the rack last night, I discovered the<br class="">source audio for the rack is being drawn from an output meant for an FM<br class="">transmitter?it?s not an audio output at all (it just so happens that the low end<br class="">of the IF /is/ the MONO part of the signal, but it?s a signal meant to be<br class="">connected to an audio input, so I?m just shaking my head on this one.)<br class=""><br class="">The Good ? the AudioIP system blade in the rack has many extra outputs (only one<br class="">really used, that?s the transmitter digital feed), and I want to create an analog<br class="">mirror output and feed that to a new little mixer, ultimately creating a stereo<br class="">input to the streamer device.<br class=""><br class="">[Oh, I see Johanna is already on top of the sound of The Bad and The Ugly in a<br class="">different email. Awesome! So, memories, feedback, help me out here folks, I<br class="">want to move forward unless the current configuration is critical to some world<br class="">domination plan? J<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Thanks all for tolerating my soapboxing!<br class=""><br class="">Jerry Fraley<br class="">Interim Operations Director<br class="">KZYX-FM & KZYZ-FM<br class="">707-895-2324<br class="">jerry_fraley@yahoo.com<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Kzyxtalk mailing list<br class="">Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Kzyxtalk mailing list<br class="">Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Kzyxtalk mailing list<br class="">Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Kzyxtalk mailing list<br class="">Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Kzyxtalk mailing list<br class="">Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 3<br class="">Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 21:56:15 -0800<br class="">From: Robotech <robotech@mcn.org><br class="">Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] Kzyxtalk Digest, Vol 26, Issue 3<br class="">To: kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br class="">Message-ID: <56D6807F.6030401@mcn.org><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<br class=""><br class="">It should be noted that this was a suggestion of your own accord? (well <br class="">kinda) :<br class=""><br class="">"Oct 2, 2015 Dear Mr. Campbell and Ms. Courtney:<br class="">........"<br class=""><br class="">"We intend to proceed with the inspection on October 7, beginning at 1:00pm, at the Philo office. It is not clear from your letter that you intend to refuse access at that time.*Pursuant to the Corporations Code, you would need a court order to do so."*<br class="">........"We thank you in advance for facilitating the inspection on October 7.<br class=""><br class="">Doug McKenty<br class="">John Sakowicz<br class="">King Collins<br class="">Norm de Valle<br class="">Peter Kafin "<br class=""><br class="">So, calling the Sheriff when it was known that people would be "storming" the building to view private membership records is NOT out of the ordinary.<br class=""><br class="">A useless and wasteful endeavor anyways...<br class=""><br class="">Did anyone ACTUALLY get anything out of "inspecting" our personal membership records?<br class=""><br class="">NO.<br class=""><br class="">Although cake and coffee are always nice - glad to see our membership dues going to something like that - forget keeping the station open during "regular business hours" ...<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Just keep playing the music ...<br class=""><br class="">...<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 3/1/16 6:44 PM, kzyxtalk-request@lists.mcn.org wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Message: 1<br class="">Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 01:59:16 +0000 (UTC)<br class="">From:sako4@comcast.net<br class="">Subject: [Kzyxtalk] Stuart Campbell<br class="">To: kzyxtalk<kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br class="">Message-ID:<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><1554720093.5631392.1456883956308.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">The AVA in "Mendocino County Today" (March 1, 2016) writes: ?WHEN A SMALL delegation of station critics went to KZYX a few weeks ago prior to regime change, management called the cops. Post-regime change, Ms. Dechter, the new station manager, met the same critics with cake, coffee and unimpeded access to the information they sought. A major change for the better has happened here.?<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">The asshole who called the cops was Stuart Campbell, who was the interim GM at that time at KZYX. He wasted scarce law enforcement resources. Three patrol cars from the MCSO showed up at the Philo studio for the non-event. I complained to Sheriff Tom Allman. In truth, Campbell filed a false police report.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Stuart Campbell is the same asshole who tried beating Lorraine Dechter out of the GM job.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">How?<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">By first emphatically saying he had no interest in applying for the GM job ? remember, Campbell was the interim GM at that time ? then picking the chair of the search committee, then stacking the search committee with with his buddies and requiring the search committee to copy him on all confidential correspondence. Stuart Campbell finally applied for the GM job only one day before the closing deadline for applications.<br class=""><br class="">It was the most blatant conflict of interest and abuse of power that I have ever seen at a 501-c-3.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">And to think that Campbell calls himself a ?professor of ethics?. What bullshit.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Stuart Campbell is now running for a Board seat?the programming representative.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Lorraine Dechter, watch your back!<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">-------------- next part --------------<br class="">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br class="">URL: http://lists.mcn.org/pipermail/kzyxtalk/attachments/20160301/a753ef51/attachment-0001.html <br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 4<br class="">Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 05:18:29 -0800<br class="">From: Marco McClean <memo@mcn.org><br class="">Subject: [Kzyxtalk] A modest proposal to each KZYX airperson to expect<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>to be paid to work.<br class="">To: editor@theava.com<br class="">Cc: kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br class="">Message-ID: <56D6E825.8000308@mcn.org><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">A modest proposal to each KZYX airperson to expect to be paid to work.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Marco here. I've been advocating for years for airpeople at KZYX to be <br class="">paid. I'd like you to think about being paid for the work you do. KZYX <br class="">has always brought in enough money to pay you, and when the matter has <br class="">been raised and pointed out, your bosses have always lied about that and <br class="">chortled it away.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">I read that the goal for the upcoming pledge drive is $60,000. Think of <br class="">it like this: every penny of that $60,000 will go to pay the salary of <br class="">one person in the office, the manager. Other small stations with a much <br class="">lower cash flow (and no CPB grant), that pay their airpeople nothing, <br class="">get by fine with a manager who volunteers just like you do and is not <br class="">paid. And next to the manager there are others in the office at KZYX who <br class="">are paid, whose presence is not at all essential to keeping the station <br class="">going. The business underwriting coordinator, for example. And plenty of <br class="">radio stations get by without a so-called program director; automation <br class="">can fill the time with appropriate content on the /extremely rare <br class="">occasion/ when an airperson gets a flat tire and has to show up late. <br class="">No-one needs to sit in the equipment garage all day and all night and <br class="">watch the lights on the computer blink. On top of that, you have a real <br class="">engineer now, going through the nuts and bolts and making things even <br class="">more reliable.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">You real-time airpeople are doing what the radio station is there for in <br class="">the first place; Your work is valuable, and you should be paid a fair <br class="">amount by the hour for the time you're on the air, and also at least for <br class="">an hour of prep for each show you do. All the people from out of the <br class="">county whose shows fill much of the airtime on KZYX get paid, because <br class="">they expect to be paid. Why shouldn't you?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">You're grateful to have a show and you don't want to rock the boat, <br class="">anyone can understand that, but when the bosses are paid very well to <br class="">exercise authority and everyone actually doing the real work is <br class="">/volunteering/, that's not right. And it doesn't just hurt you, it hurts <br class="">all workers everywhere. And John Coate is gone, fled, and Mary Aigner <br class="">has no power over you anymore. The chilling effect of Mary, on your <br class="">freedom of expression and freedom to innovate, is in the past. The <br class="">agreement you signed to never speak your mind about station business on <br class="">the air was never legally binding; you can't be forced to sign away your <br class="">rights. And Safe Harbor is federal law.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">KZYX gets a fat grant from the government every year that, if the <br class="">station were managed properly, would easily pay for every aspect of its <br class="">upkeep and operation, without the need for pledge drives. With the <br class="">drives, you could have been paid all along, all those years. And if you <br class="">truly didn't need the money, you could have been showering it upon a <br class="">needy cause --really, anything: cancer research, the dog pound, the <br class="">Senior Center, the Audubon Society, the ACLU, the SPLC, Doctors Without <br class="">Borders, the food bank, music in the schools, a web subscription to the <br class="">Anderson Valley Advertiser; use your imagination.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Think about all this when you're reciting the script about how KZYX <br class="">needs pledges of listeners' dollars in order to "keep the great shows on <br class="">the air". If that were true, you'd be paid for your great show. Consider <br class="">speaking up for yourself on the air during your show, during the pledge <br class="">drive, when it counts the most, when the board members and bosses are <br class="">listening.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Further, when you vote amongst yourselves for a programmers' <br class="">representative to sit on the board of directors, make sure it's not <br class="">Stuart Campbell again. What has he ever done for you? When has he ever <br class="">advocated for you?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">--<br class=""><br class="">Marco McClean<br class="">memo@mcn.org<br class="">http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 5<br class="">Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:08:50 -0800<br class="">From: Richard Louis Miller <drrichardlmiller@gmail.com><br class="">Subject: [Kzyxtalk] Response to Marco<br class="">To: discussion@lists.mcn.org, kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br class="">Message-ID: <F022BE6D-FE63-4141-B0EA-D6EF31F7FE35@gmail.com><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>charset=us-ascii<br class=""><br class="">Dear Marco<br class=""><br class="">Thank you for your excellent modest proposal.<br class=""><br class="">If, and when, I am elected to the Kzyx Board I will argue for certain aspects of your proposal specifically the "employee" status of volunteer programmers. I believe it is imperative that all programmers be legal employees with all the rights and entitlements due all employees, even if they receive an extremely modest paycheck.<br class=""><br class="">As for your comments regarding the "chilling effect" of the previous kzyx management , nothing could be more accurate. <br class=""><br class="">I have been working for 65 years and more people have been fired from kzyx in my 10 years at the station then in all of my career combined. Jim Tarbel summed it up when I started at kzyx when he said "Richard, do your program, get out of the studio and keep your head down from the station."<br class=""><br class="">These past ten years have been very satisfying in terms of what I have been able to bring to our community while at the same time I have worked under the most horrific working conditions ever.<br class=""><br class=""> Ultimately the Kzyx Board and the membership are responsible and it is time for a very significant change.<br class=""><br class="">Wishing you good health,<br class=""><br class="">Richard<br class=""><br class="">Dr Richard Louis Miller<br class="">Clinical Psychology<br class="">MindBodyHealthPolitics.org <br class="">Wikipedia: Dr Richard Louis Miller<br class="">Wikipedia: Wilbur Hot Springs<br class="">Psychepedia.org<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 2, 2016, at 5:19 AM, Marco McClean <memo@mcn.org> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">A modest proposal to each KZYX airperson to expect to be paid to work.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Marco here. I've been advocating for years for airpeople at KZYX to be <br class="">paid. I'd like you to think about being paid for the work you do. KZYX <br class="">has always brought in enough money to pay you, and when the matter has <br class="">been raised and pointed out, your bosses have always lied about that and <br class="">chortled it away.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">I read that the goal for the upcoming pledge drive is $60,000. Think of <br class="">it like this: every penny of that $60,000 will go to pay the salary of <br class="">one person in the office, the manager. Other small stations with a much <br class="">lower cash flow (and no CPB grant), that pay their airpeople nothing, <br class="">get by fine with a manager who volunteers just like you do and is not <br class="">paid. And next to the manager there are others in the office at KZYX who <br class="">are paid, whose presence is not at all essential to keeping the station <br class="">going. The business underwriting coordinator, for example. And plenty of <br class="">radio stations get by without a so-called program director; automation <br class="">can fill the time with appropriate content on the /extremely rare <br class="">occasion/ when an airperson gets a flat tire and has to show up late. <br class="">No-one needs to sit in the equipment garage all day and all night and <br class="">watch the lights on the computer blink. On top of that, you have a real <br class="">engineer now, going through the nuts and bolts and making things even <br class="">more reliable.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">You real-time airpeople are doing what the radio station is there for in <br class="">the first place; Your work is valuable, and you should be paid a fair <br class="">amount by the hour for the time you're on the air, and also at least for <br class="">an hour of prep for each show you do. All the people from out of the <br class="">county whose shows fill much of the airtime on KZYX get paid, because <br class="">they expect to be paid. Why shouldn't you?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">You're grateful to have a show and you don't want to rock the boat, <br class="">anyone can understand that, but when the bosses are paid very well to <br class="">exercise authority and everyone actually doing the real work is <br class="">/volunteering/, that's not right. And it doesn't just hurt you, it hurts <br class="">all workers everywhere. And John Coate is gone, fled, and Mary Aigner <br class="">has no power over you anymore. The chilling effect of Mary, on your <br class="">freedom of expression and freedom to innovate, is in the past. The <br class="">agreement you signed to never speak your mind about station business on <br class="">the air was never legally binding; you can't be forced to sign away your <br class="">rights. And Safe Harbor is federal law.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">KZYX gets a fat grant from the government every year that, if the <br class="">station were managed properly, would easily pay for every aspect of its <br class="">upkeep and operation, without the need for pledge drives. With the <br class="">drives, you could have been paid all along, all those years. And if you <br class="">truly didn't need the money, you could have been showering it upon a <br class="">needy cause --really, anything: cancer research, the dog pound, the <br class="">Senior Center, the Audubon Society, the ACLU, the SPLC, Doctors Without <br class="">Borders, the food bank, music in the schools, a web subscription to the <br class="">Anderson Valley Advertiser; use your imagination.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Think about all this when you're reciting the script about how KZYX <br class="">needs pledges of listeners' dollars in order to "keep the great shows on <br class="">the air". If that were true, you'd be paid for your great show. Consider <br class="">speaking up for yourself on the air during your show, during the pledge <br class="">drive, when it counts the most, when the board members and bosses are <br class="">listening.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Further, when you vote amongst yourselves for a programmers' <br class="">representative to sit on the board of directors, make sure it's not <br class="">Stuart Campbell again. What has he ever done for you? When has he ever <br class="">advocated for you?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">--<br class=""><br class="">Marco McClean<br class="">memo@mcn.org<br class="">http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com<br class=""><br class="">__________________________________________________________<br class="">__________________________________________________________<br class="">The Mendocino Community Network (MCN) provides the MCN Discussion list.<br class="">Use of the list is subject to the terms of service at<br class="">http://www.mcn.org/email/dtos.html<br class="">TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to discussion-leave@lists.mcn.org<br class="">(To complete the process you must reply to the email you receive in response)<br class="">For listserv technical problems please contact: listmanager@mcn.org<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Kzyxtalk mailing list<br class="">Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">End of Kzyxtalk Digest, Vol 26, Issue 4<br class="">***************************************<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>