[Kzyxtalk] A question.

[Marco McClean]

On 12/14/2015 9:31 AM, Al wrote:
>  So Marco,  why don't you and John Sac put your energy into developing 
> KNYO?

     I am and I do. I put about twenty hours of concentrated prep into 
each one of my weekly Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio shows, and then 
I stay up all night doing the show live on KNYO-LP in Fort Bragg 
--sometimes by remote from other places-- and then I upload the 
recording to MediaFire and tend to my weblog and email list. And, along 
with others, I buy and build and repair equipment for KNYO. And I 
promote it on the air and in print, and encourage others to participate. 
You can send material for my show and you can even get your own airtime 
to do whatever kind of show you want to do. If there's something else 
/you/ can think of to do to promote KNYO, please just do it.

     Unfortunately KNYO is in a legal category of radio stations that by 
law can never reach far beyond one small community, no matter how much 
promotion or work or money or love is put into it. In contrast, KZYX and 
its translator stations have a lock on control of three frequencies that 
blanket the entire county, with a main transmitter that uses as much 
electricity as a couple of electric heat logs, and despite its costing 
/only a little more/ than KNYO to operate, KZYX has absorbed and 
spirited out of the world $4,000,000 in tax-derived money over its life, 
enough by itself --not even counting the unlistenable pledge drive 
nonsense-- to build, license and operate dozens of KNYOs over the same 
period, if the frequencies were available. The people who run KZYX want 
very much to think of themselves as the good guys, defending their rule 
against barbarians, and they think of anyone who criticizes their 
oppressive control measures as crazy people attacking them. They've said 
so on numerous occasions.

     I'm not sure why you associate me with John Sakowicz. I've never 
even met him. He tends to quote me and in some cases champion me; is 
that why?

     I know he has a show on KMEC in Ukiah. And I also promote KMEC by 
providing my show. KMEC automatically picks up my show in progress at 
midnight (Friday night) and so I'm on in Fort Bragg from 9pm to 3 or 4am 
and also in Ukiah and Redwood Valley from midnight to 3am.

     I don't know if you're aware of this, but my show was on KMFB from 
early Feb. of 1997 to late October, 2011. After Claude Hooten bought 
KMFB and destroyed it (and he bought the station outright for about half 
of KZYX' ridiculously inflated yearly cash flow) I offered my show for 
free to KZYX and was treated abysmally, but nonetheless I waited years 
before beginning to recreationally complain. It's been almost four years 
now, with no action on my offer except abuse from the management.

     Just like you and everyone else --except the undeserving and 
Nixonian management of KZYX-- I have to work for a living. I have always 
maintained several part-time jobs in the real world to support my 
projects, and I've always been operating right at the edge of what I can 
do. That's how I know it's important to /pay the airpeople at KZYX/-- 
that's another reasonable proposal of mine that the overpaid management 
suite there has laughed off up to now and/or ignored. I don't mind not 
being paid at KNYO, because no-one is paid at KNYO. Everyone at KNYO is 
in it for radio. Please email Bob Young--

   bobb at poetworld.net

     --and offer to help underwrite the station on behalf of my show or 
another show you like. It will be appreciated. KNYO is cheap to operate 
but we could use some replacement equipment: a better main mixing board, 
power backup units for the main studio and the transmitter, a few more 
portable remote studios (I'll build them; we just need to buy the 
parts). Also rent on the storefront. Electricity, water bill...

     I recently applied to manage KZYX because I'm more than qualified 
and I can fix the problems there and make the station better, and open 
it up to people and groups who have up to now been excluded, and put 
remote studios in more communities, and move the office to a place 
populated by more people than rabbits. As I suspected, going by the 
hierarchy's previous behavior in the KZYX bunker in every aspect of 
their operation --over more than a quarter-century-- I had and have 
little chance. But I had to try anyway.

     Thanks for asking. I'll read your question and my answer on my show.

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Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com