<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>You belong on the air at KZYX, Marco. Until then,, I'm happy that you are part of the KMEC family.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- John</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>"Marco McClean" <memo@mcn.org><br><b>To: </b>"kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br><b>Cc: </b>discussion@lists.mcn.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, June 9, 2016 3:09:12 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Kzyxtalk] Fwd: Re: About scheduling Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio on KZYX.<br><div><br></div> The previous program director never wrote back to me, despite my <br>having written at least once a week. The current program director just <br>wrote back after three weeks. And I replied, and here is that:<br><div><br></div><br>On 6/9/2016 9:22 AM, Alice Woelfle-Erskine wrote:<br> > Hi Marco,<br> > Your show sounds very cool. I'll make time to listen to it sometime<br> > soon. At this point, we are taking submissions for new music shows.<br> > It doesn't sound like your show quite fits that description, but<br> > because it sounds interesting I'll give it a listen and submit it for<br> > consideration. You said it plays on Friday night on KMEC? What time<br> > slot do you think it suited for? Nighttime?<br><div><br></div><br> I did it for nearly 15 years on KMFB, then KMFB was bought up and <br>destroyed and I applied to KZYX. That was four and a half years ago. I <br>waited six months, became frustrated, called Bob Young at KNYO and was <br>on the air there within a week. After a couple of years of working there <br>and improving the station, I called KMEC and Ed and Sid found a way to <br>automatically grab the live stream of my show in progress at midnight <br>and then I'm on there too. I do the show every Friday night from <br>wherever I am, using a portable studio that I made. When I'm in Fort <br>Bragg, people can walk in off the street and be immediately on the air; <br>when I'm not, it's mostly just me, reading, and playing music for breaks.<br><div><br></div> The show would fit in any time slot. Night is good. On KNYO I <br>start at 9pm, so I hold off on reading swear words for an hour, until <br>Safe Harbor hours. This Friday will be my 949th weekly six-to-eight-hour <br>Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show, and there's never been even a <br>hint of FCC trouble or legal trouble of any kind because of it. You have <br>nothing like my show on KZYX. You already have dozens of shows where <br>people are just playing CDs or playing a playlist from their iPod. I am <br>inviting you to make improving the station a priority.<br><div><br></div><br> > At KZYX we are starting a new process of scheduling new shows and<br> > programmers. We are assembling a programming team which will review<br> > and vote on which shows should go where (when it comes to nationally<br> > produced shows) and who should be on the air (in terms of local<br> > volunteer programmers.) So it isn't a matter of one person deciding<br> > and holing all the power anymore. I'm hoping this will work well.<br><div><br></div><br> Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath about that. That's exactly what I <br>was told in February of 2012, and then I wrote to the programming <br>committee and filled out forms and met with Mary Aigner and found out <br>that the programming committee had no power at all and, as Mary said, <br>"Nobody's gonna read that."<br><div><br></div> Is Stuart Campbell the chairman of the new programming committee? <br>Because he will never allow my show on KZYX. And who else is there? And <br>do I get a vote on who's on that committee?<br><div><br></div><br> > Again, I'm sorry for the delayed response. I look forward to<br> > listening to your show and will get back to you.<br><div><br></div><br> And, Alice, that's another thing I've heard before, for years and <br>years. If you're gonna do it, do it right now. You don't have to listen <br>to a whole six-to-eight-hour show. Just download the latest show and <br>skip around in it. I stream to the various transmitters in relatively <br>high quality stereo but the recording is only in speech-quality <br>monaural, so music sounds a lot better on the air than on the recording, <br>just to let you know.<br><div><br></div><br>-- <br>Marco McClean<br>memo@mcn.org<br>http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com<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></body></html>