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

Cindy Swan cswan at willitsonline.com
Sun Oct 19 05:06:35 PDT 2014


Marco,
radio brilliance!
listening now. . .
"I’m on (your) Mexican Radio"
~C.


On Oct 19, 2014, at 3:33 AM, Marco McClean <memo at mcn.org> wrote:

> 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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