[Kzyxtalk] The corrupt managers of KZYX.

[Marco McClean]

On 1/24/2015 9:56 PM, Gordon Black wrote:
> Marco, maybe they'll offer you airtime if you call them utterly corrupt.

     Whether I speak up or not, Mary Aigner has no intention of ever 
slotting my show into KZYX, when in fact I'm exactly the sort of 
airperson who belongs on public radio in Mendocino County, and my show 
is better and more valuable and more educational than most of what's on 
KZYX. And you know that, Gordon.

      I waited /years/ after making my show available to Mary and 
jumping through all the ridiculous hoops before I uttered a peep about 
her incompetence. She never took a single step in the direction of 
putting my show on the schedule. If you're concerned about rudeness, 
John and Mary are the ones with their foot on your neck. I'm the one 
pointing out that their foot is on your neck.

     When I went to KMFB in 1997 and talked to Bob Woelfel, I was on the 
air within a week. When I went to KNYO in November, 2012 and talked to 
Bob Young, I was on the air even faster. I contacted Mary in January of 
2012, went to meet her in late February. Three years have passed. She 
never returned email. She telephoned me once, out of the blue, all 
chipper, to tell me that she was thinking about me and I should call her 
when all the craziness of the current pledge time was over. That's it. I 
stopped at the station on 128 on my way home from Juanita's house twice; 
once I met and spoke with John and was treated like a bug, like I had no 
business bothering them there, like I was some kind of undesirable 
intrusion. Others have told me they received the same treatment and worse.

     For the whole nearly fifteen years I had my show on KMFB, when 
someone wrote to me I read their work on the air. When people called I 
stopped reading and put them instantly on the air. When people dropped 
by the station unannounced and knocked, I'd let them in and put them on 
the air, whether they brought musical instruments or not. When I'm at 
KNYO and someone knocks I let them in and put them on the air. When I 
ran a weekly teevee show on the public access channel in Fort Bragg, I 
set it up so anyone who wanted to do a segment could just show up at my 
house and do whatever they wanted to. And then eat spaghetti.

     When I had my newspaper, it didn't matter to me how anyone felt or 
spoke or wrote about me-- it just wasn't a consideration; they were 
welcome. Christ, I let /Bill Kovanda/ have two whole poetry pages every 
issue and I don't even like poetry. If Mary Aigner or John Coate had 
wanted a regular column in my paper, they wouldn't even have had to ask. 
They'd send or call in the work and I'd see that it got published as 
written or as spoken into the telephone answering machine. And as long 
as I wasn't paying the writers, I was not paid. That's what /not 
corrupt/ looks like.

     The only chance I or anyone like me will ever have to use KZYX 
properly --specifically to do our shows there, our way-- is to switch 
out the childish school-clique, desperately secretive, oppressive, 
opaque management. I don't expect that will happen, so I'm not holding 
my breath, and there's no point in sucking up to people by keeping quiet 
about how bad they are. I won't be intimidated into silence any longer 
about KZYX the way so many others allow themselves to be. It's a public 
so-called community radio station, badly managed, kept afloat by tax 
money, in the educational band, and the airpeople are not paid at all, 
and the managers pay themselves a lot of money to run the place as their 
personal fiefdom. Corrupt is the precise word to describe them.