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<div dir="ltr">here's where the trouble started, IMO:<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.greenmac.com/hiddenAgenda/responses/KZYX_History_1996.html" target="_blank">http://www.greenmac.com/hiddenAgenda/responses/KZYX_History_1996.html</a><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">"During his tenure Tymon hired Nicole Sawaya to fill the Program Director's slot </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">which had been vacated when Brian Wood resigned at the end of Susan Newstead's </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">term. With Tymon now gone, Jill Hannum was hired as an interim station manager </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">and, along with Nicole Sawaya and Operations director Jack Tyselling, presented the </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">Board with a “flat top” management proposal, which created a management team </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">made up of the Business Manager, the Programmer Director and the Operations </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">Director. In the spring of 1994 Claudia Vierra was hired to fill the Business Manager </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">slot that Jill Hanum had been filling temporarily.</font></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">"The Board now had oversight function over three management positions, a task </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">which it never carried out very well. The Board had a hard enough time evaluating </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">one Director and never formally evaluated the job performances of the three </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">“flat top” managers. With the lack of evaluations, the staff essentially stepped in </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">and did their own defacto evaluation, and the management team began to over rule </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">her on key decisions that were proprietary to the Business Manager. She resigned in </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">early 1995 and essentially Nicole ran the station, giving it a long needed tenure of </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">stability and energy that was crucial to its survival."</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">Translation: In 1993, the foxes started guarding the henhouse at KZYX. Interesting</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">how this biography -- written in 1996 -- saw a total management vacuum as such</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">a wonderful thing. Thus setting the stage for the puppet show we have today.</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">Sincerely,</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">Scott M. Peterson</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">Mendocino</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div></div>
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