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

[Sheila Dawn]

  Good to hear that other radio stations are opening to those who have been closed out of programming decisions at KZYX. I am going to put GP mill site clean up updates on KNYO as soon as the meetings are scheduled.              Sheila Dawn Tracy
 

     On Friday, October 17, 2014 12:49 PM, David Gurney <jugglestone at gmail.com> wrote:
   

 KXXX,Why-ZZZZzzzzz..... "oleaginous"  
What a great word.  Thanks, Marco.
.
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?

--------------------------

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

[end]

(Please print the email address and the URL.)



_______________________________________________
Kzyxtalk mailing list
Kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org
http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk



_______________________________________________
Kzyxtalk mailing list
Kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org
http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk


   
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.mcn.org/pipermail/kzyxtalk/attachments/20141018/4b8e39df/attachment.html