[Kzyxtalk] membership

[Norman de Vall]

Joel,
Have you thought of sending a cc directly to the Board of Directors?
Norman

On Dec 28, 2014, at 5:28 PM, Joel Waldman wrote:

> According to Johnny C. the station is a profit making operation.  
> 
> Will members benefit from a distribution of dividends?
> 
> What will be done with earnings in excess of operating expenses...new equipment?...a new main studio in Ukiah?...bonuses and higher salaries ?
> 
> My censorship by the Gen. Mgr. was one of his first ukases in office.  Apparently  this is of no interest to anyone connected to the station or its listeners or former programmers.  
> 
> No one has uttered or written a single word in support of my willingness to accept J. Blankfort's invitation to debate.
> 
> In spite of all the publicity announcing that event,  Coate's 11th hour cancellation of my appearance on "TOTW" has gone without comment, ever, on any medium in this community.
> 
> There is nothing I can do about all my contributions to the station.    KZYX owns the tapes of some of my former political opinions, now useless ephemera.  More important, however, without an apologetic acknowledgement of the shabby treatment to which it has exposed me, there will be no license to broadcast any future interpretive spoken arts or original work I may produce.  
> 
> My apologies to Dan Roberts who does his best to showcase poetry;  he deserve a more comprehensive medium.
> 
> 
> 
>    
> On Dec 28, 2014, at 2:25 PM, sako4 at comcast.net wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: sako4 at comcast.net
>> To: "Stuart Campbell" <scamp1104 at comcast.net>, "Stuart Campbell" <thales1104 at comcast.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 2:22:23 PM
>> Subject: membership 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Stuart,
>> 
>> Since you are the Election Czar, I thought I'd direct my question to you: Because I hosted my show as a volunteer programmer from January thru June this year, am I a KZYX member? I also put in volunteer hours as a KZYX Board member. That's enough volunteer hours for membership status, correct?
>> 
>> Please confirm. I ask, because I want to be able to vote in the upcoming election, but I prefer not to contribute any money towards the station at this point until there is a change in management (Coate and Aigner).
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>> John Sakowicz
>> 
>> From: "Marco McClean" <memo at mcn.org>
>> To: "kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org>
>> Cc: membership at kzyx.org, discussion at lists.mcn.org
>> Sent: Friday, December 26, 2014 3:44:21 PM
>> Subject: [Kzyxtalk] Simple Living Membership
>> 
>> Here's the text of the letter to KZYX I wrapped around my check:
>> 
>> KZYX&Z, P.O. Box 1, Philo, CA 95466
>> 
>> Mary and John and money-changing staff, accept this check for $25 for a 
>> Simple Living Membership.
>> 
>> I had to force myself to send this money, because I so don't have it to 
>> throw around and so don't want to reward you*, but I want to have a 
>> voice and a vote on the direction KZYX goes, and apparently this is the 
>> only way, even though you've got literally millions of tax dollars in 
>> grants over the last 25 years, so...
>> 
>> It's coming up on three years since I offered my show to you 
>> --description, long good history, letters of reference, letters to your 
>> Program Advisory Committee (which I found out a year later doesn't even 
>> exist), 15 years of samples, jumped through all your hoops, continued 
>> email contact and updating, and you've taken zero steps to put Memo of 
>> the Air: Good Night Radio on KZYX. Given my safe and wonderful and 
>> good-natured track record in teaching and publishing and radio I 
>> consider it to be a measure of your incompetence that my show was not on 
>> KZYX within six months. That would have been late summer of 2012.
>> 
>> *Two thousand (2000) (!) regular $50 memberships don't add up to what 
>> KZYX management scarfs up in personal pay, where none of the people 
>> actually doing the work of radio are paid a cent, nor even allowed 
>> autonomy in the content and operation of their own shows. That's one of 
>> the things that I'm going to vote to change.
>> 
>> Happy new year.
>> 
>> Marco McClean, box 1497, Mendocino, CA 95460
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