[Kzyxtalk] [kzyxtalk listserv version] Masonry opens doors.

[Marco McClean]

The recording of last night's (2014-10-17) KNYO Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show is ready to download and keep or just play with one 
click at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com.

Some more and older and rather better poetry than usual. Ebola terror 
debunkment. A goofily bloated Respect Mah Authoritah section, including 
wise advice as to exactly what to do and what not to do when pulled over 
by a cop, to minimize legal and death problems. Alex Bosworth. John 
Lewallen. Oni Hartstein’s criticism of the new entrepreneurs of haunted 
houses from hell. The triumphant return of the Comtesse DeSpair. 
Gruesome Columbus (Cristoforo Colon) facts. The rise and fall of the 
venerated bit at the end of Christ's penis and its counterfeits down 
through European history. Notice of Memo of the Air’s soon proliferating 
to be on KMEC-LP in Ukiah as well as on the familiar KNYO-LP in Fort 
Bragg. And, let’s see, what else… It turns out that torture now comes in 
a choice of flavors; who knew? And so on. A long and pleasantly weird 
show. And Boston Blackie at the end.

This was my 97th weekly Memo of the Air show for KNYO, my 866th all 
told, counting KMFB. My show has resulted in zero legal trouble and zero 
music licensing trouble and zero FCC trouble ever for either station. It 
easily paid for itself on KMFB, and just the underwriters for my weekly 
late-night show are paying about a quarter of KNYO's entire budget, and 
that would scale up countywide (KNYO covers just Fort Bragg). The then 
manager of KMFB and the now manager of KNYO will both attest to my value 
and usefulness and the seamless, calm, copascetic nature of my 
involvement in those stations. And several long-time programmers at KZYX 
have strongly recommended to Mary Aigner to acquire my show. I mention 
all this because it puzzles me that Mary Aigner and John Coate need a 
radio-station-breaking torrent of money just to pay themselves and 
they're clearly desirous of a nonconfrontational environment, so what 
could be the problem Mary Aigner has with the idea of letting my show 
run on KZYX?

If it's not the money nor the track record, and it's not the quality of 
the show, nor that it's a unique, consistent educational product, a 
literacy program, nor the local angle, nor my experience bringing people 
in to participate in media in general and radio in specific-- really, 
what is the problem?

When I talked to Mary in early March of 2012, when we were still on 
speaking terms, she mentioned that she talks with Sean [Donovan] on a 
regular basis. And then the conversation moved away from that. But 
now... It makes a weird kind of sense. Does Sean Donovan still have a 
tentacle in the works there? Think of how many things that would 
explain, not just regarding me.

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