<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Was this Board meeting posted/advertised?<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>"Marco McClean" <memo@mcn.org><br><b>To: </b>"kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, July 3, 2017 1:39:16 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Kzyxtalk] KZYX.<br><div><br></div><br>I see in the MCN announce listserv that Janie Rezner --80 years old <br>now-- is still needing a place to move to on less than $700 a month <br>after doing radio at KZYX for, what, fifteen years, probably. If <br>management had been paying airpeople even a pittance for their work, <br>which they could always easily do but have chosen not to in favor of <br>sucking out of the station for themselves /two or three million dollars/ <br>(!) over that same fifteen years, she might have 5-10 thousand dollars <br>saved up in her mattress to make this difficult transition.<br><div><br></div>Sunday Richard Karch wrote to announce that Anne Feeney, folk musician <br>in the old tradition and champion of workers everywhere, would be on <br>folksy drawlin' Fred Wooley's deejay show on KZYZ at 1pm that day. I <br>missed the event, but I wonder if Anne at all addressed the horrendous <br>injustice of just the manager paying himself all of $60,000 a year <br>before paying any of the real workers, Fred Wooley included, even a <br>penny out of the $600,000 that Mendocino County Public Broadcasting <br>pisses away every year. That's five or six times what it actually costs <br>to keep the station's paperwork in order, and keep it housed and fed <br>with electricity and communications services, and keep the transmitters <br>switched on, so airpeople can bring their material in and do radio. In <br>the real world radio is practically free. It's the monopoly of it that <br>makes a commercial station worth a fortune to buy and sell, and a <br>pumped-up podunk noncommercial station like KZYX, which should be even <br>freer, relies on the public's false association of radio with great expense.<br><div><br></div>KZYX is constantly broke and constantly begging listeners and businesses <br>for money, even with the $160,000-a-year tax-derived bailout they get <br>from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and even though they have <br>free use of three frequencies that together cover the whole County of <br>Mendocino, and a high-power broadcast license is a /license to coin <br>money/. That's how bad the board of MCPB and each new manager they hire <br>for a hood ornament are at running KZYX. They are that bad at it. Or <br>that crooked. You decide.<br><div><br></div>They're having another one of their pretend board meetings tonight. Like <br>with all of their board meetings, it's an average round-trip drive of <br>three hours to attend, for anyone who wants to and can afford to do <br>that. They won't be putting the meeting on the air because, to them, why <br>should they ever? And, in fairness, nothing ever comes of any of their <br>meetings. No real discussion ever happens there. All votes among the <br>board are unanimous. Nothing about the way they run the station or about <br>the station itself ever changes or improves, and no-one even slightly <br>clever and willing to take a chance and experiment is allowed to do <br>radio there. It's like Kevin said to Randall in /Time Bandits/: "I don't <br>understand you, Randall. You've got this brilliant thing and you're just <br>/wasting/ it." What's their motivation for just squatting dully on those <br>three educational band FM broadcast frequencies? Why are they preventing <br>them from being used for what they're /for/? It's truly baffling.<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>