[Kzyxtalk] Memo of the Air - Good Night Radio will be on KMEC as well as KNYO.

[David Gurney]

KXXX,Why-ZZZZzzzzz..... "oleaginous"

What a great word.  Thanks, Marco.

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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Marco McClean <memo at mcn.org> wrote:

> I'm about to send this to the AVA. Look it over for me, would you?
>
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>
> Dear Editor:
>
>      Here's my email address:  memo at mcn.org
>      And here's my weblog:  http://memooftheair.wordpress.com
>      Be sure to read the About page.
>
>      Here are a couple of free offers to the general public:  1. Email
> me me and I'll put you on my list for a weekly notification that the
> recording of each new Memo of the Air show is up for listening and
> downloading.  2. If you write something you want me to read on the air
> --poetry, public service publicity, art, science, fiction, kvetching,
> whatever-- email it to me and I'll read it on the air. It's just like
> all the papers I published and my old show on KMFB; I promise to air
> everyone who wants to be aired and even a few who don't want to be.
> That's the way all media, not just radio, should work: Let people in and
> lift people up. I appreciate that it's the way the Anderson Valley
> Advertiser does it, and that's why I often read from the AVA on my show.
>
>      For the past two years I've been doing my show, /Memo of the Air -
> Good Night Radio/ on KNYO-LP in Fort Bragg (107.7fm) every Friday night
> from 9pm until I get tired or run out of material --usually that's some
> time around 3 or 4am. KNYO is a low power station that reaches Fort
> Bragg and Caspar.
>
>      Soon I'll be on KMEC-LP in Ukiah, too. Ed Nieves is working out the
> details of whether they'll pick me up live in progress at midnight and
> drop off when I drop off or they'll play a recording of my entire KNYO
> show the next night starting at midnight. Probably KMEC will set their
> automation to step on my show for a moment at the top of every hour and
> run their recorded ID-- that's what I want; it's the easiest way.
>
>      Just look at KMEC's schedule and website: http://kmecradio.org/
>      They are clearly doing it right, and like KNYO they're doing it on
> a budget a microscopic fraction of KZYX's. Here, see how right they're
> doing it: I'll be on the air at KMEC within a few short weeks of when I
> first approached them with the idea. (I was on the air at KNYO starting
> in 2012 within a week of contacting Bob Young, as I was on KMFB starting
> in 1997 within a week of contacting Bob Woelfel.) I'm so looking forward
> to getting back the writers in the Ukiah area who used to send me
> material because of KMFB. I'm thrilled that this is happening.
>
>      Which reminds me --and you can skip the rest of this if you want to
> stop at the end of the happy part; I wouldn't blame you-- I and a number
> of others still want our shows on KZYX. After many years of applying and
> contacting and visiting and waiting and getting some really unpleasant
> treatment it seems unlikely that will ever happen, regarding my show,
> anyway, and it's a shame. Maybe one day the management will turn over or
> have an epiphany or something and things will change, but I have trouble
> imagining it, not because my imagination is faulty but because
> everything about the management of KZYX --an organization that has
> sucked down literally millions of taxpayers' dollars in its twenty-five
> years of existence-- is and has always been oppressively opaque. I mean,
> it could be they're desperately hanging on by their fingernails just to
> keep their petty power and ridiculously inflated salaries, or it could
> be they're being directed by fermented forces of wine money or
> oleaginous forces of Koch money, or it might be they have a nest of
> alien snakes in their heads, the way most commercial radio stations'
> owners do, which is pretty much the same thing.
>
>      It's most likely that they just don't know any better and they
> don't want to learn. They can't grasp that smart, experienced, valuable
> people might dislike being treated like bugs, and they think that we
> can't possibly be all that smart if we don't know to keep our mouths
> shut about injustice the way the sort of people they allow to keep their
> shows do, you know, if we really want their permission to be on the
> public air. And maybe they really don't see the injustice they're doing.
> They don't think they're doing anything wrong because the result is they
> have what they want, and for them that's the definition of right, and
> the few people who prosper under and around them naturally agree.
>
>      If that's the case, boardmembers of KZYX, then the solution is to
> ask your manager and program director if they're in it for the money or
> for the love of radio. And when they say it's for the love of radio, cut
> their salaries to the rate the programmers are paid, which is zero, and
> then you'll see how much love for radio they really have. That also
> solves having to do weeks of egregiously unlistenable pledge drives just
> to pay management to organize weeks of egregiously unlistenable pledge
> drives, universally reviled as the worst radio ever. Come on, be honest:
> pledge chuckleheads start their pitch, you change the channel or turn
> the radio off and do anything else; it's that bad, and that unnecessary,
> and that easily done away with. Put the managers on the same financial
> footing as the people actually doing the work. Because you can and you
> should. (And monkeys will fly out of my butt.)
>
> --Marco McClean
> memo at mcn.org
> http://memooftheair.wordpress.com
>
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