[Kzyxtalk] Another in a series of proposals for KZYX: Bob Woelfel for manager, program director and business coordinator.

[nsi at mcn.org]

Yes. Bob Woelfel! A perfect choice. You can eliminate the
business/underwriting position (which ended up being a power grab
rather real monetary asset to the station). Bob is one of those
perfect persons to work for/under/with.  So local. So loved. So
competent. --beth bosk 

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If Marco endorses Bob Woefel, then Woefel has got my vote.

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SUBJECT: [Kzyxtalk] Another in a series of proposals for KZYX: Bob
Woelfel for manager, program director and business coordinator.

On 6/15/2015 10:14 AM, Doug McKenty wrote:
 > ...Mary Aigner's fate depends on who the next manager will be,
and 
what happens in the meantime.

     Again, if KZYX must have a manager, please put forth Bob
Woelfel's 
name. He can do all the management paperwork tasks, and the program 
director tasks, and the ad sales (business underwriting) tasks, and
the 
intelligently-conciliating-disgruntled-members-and/or-airpeople
stuff, 
and do it all with good cheer; he's been doing it all his life since
he 
got home from military service, and he knows Mendocino County's
business 
and social and political scene like the back of his hand, and I don't

know anyone who doesn't like him.

     I have seen people in the office screaming at each other and
the 
world, and he walked in, glanced at them, continued on into the
kitchen, 
ate a pickled egg, then put up his hand and said a few simple calm 
things and they all shut up and went to do their jobs and have their 
lives, and they were all satisfied that they'd been heard, by each
other 
and by him, and they were amused at how they'd been carrying on. It
was 
magical.

     I can't count the times something about KMFB --a single piece
of 
equipment or a complicated system-- was seriously messed up and Bob 
called me in to fix it, and I said something like, "That's too hard.
We 
need a whole new [fill in blank]," and he said something that put it
in 
a new light and made it easier, and I fixed it. There were times he
had 
a special project for me and I couldn't figure out how to do it, and
he 
said, "How about if we..." and it became clear, and I did it. He knew

that what he wanted could be done, and that made it so I did too. And

when it was something I wasn't qualified to touch, he knew that, and 
he'd call one of half a dozen radio engineers he's friends with, and 
they'd jump to help him

     He saw that all of us were paid. He set up a system where we
were 
responsible for bringing in advertising money for our own shows, and
we 
were paid by the hour /and/ we got a generous cut of the money we 
contracted. This would work with noncommercial KZYX with business 
underwriting as well as it worked for commercial KMFB, which had the 
same broadcast range as KZYX and cost a fourth the money to operate, 
even after paying all the airpeople and engineers.

     He loves to practically live in the radio station, leisurely 
accomplishing things and enjoying himself in the background and
leaving 
the independent airpeople alone to do their thing, and when he's 
required by the more dependent airpeople he appears and helps them.

     He attracts real radio people and lets them do their work in
their 
own way, and when someone goes entirely off the rails he waits until 
their show is done and then tells them his concerns and they correct 
themselves. In all the years I've known him, I'm sure he had his own 
politics and his own opinions and /I don't know what they are/; think

about that for a moment, really. He gives everyone a chance to shine,
no 
matter what they believe in or are for or against.

     That's the sort of person who should run KZYX. And once we
were in 
the printer room talking about the general subject of appropriate 
language and he said to me, "I don't mind shit or goddammit, but if
you 
can, Marco, please hold the motherfuckers and cocksuckers until after

midnight." (That was the only time I ever heard him say any of those 
words.) In all the years that Bob Woelfel oversaw KMFB there was not
a 
single audience complaint to the FCC on any subject, and KMFB was way

more free than KZYX has ever been, and there was no electronic
profanity 
delay nor any need for one.

     Some people are too much. Sister Yasmin drove Bob crazy with
her 
drama and anguish and so on, yet he kept her on for nearly ever
anyway, 
and even when he was pushed beyond any administrator's endurance he 
didn't fire her-- look at what he did: he had me build a special
studio 
just for her out at the transmitter site, so she could keep doing her

show and he wouldn't have the aggravation of her being all in his
face 
at the office, until she could control herself and things could be 
normal again. See this? He didn't fire her; he made a way for her to 
solve the problem herself, and trusted her to do it, and of course
she 
did. That's his way.

     Some of the best people at KZYX and KOZT and probably four or
five 
other stations around here started at KMFB.

     He helped homeless people. He brought the animal-rescue
people in 
to talk about their work, and when they were having trouble homing 
abandoned exotic dragon-creatures he set up habitats and kept them in

the office and did a show about them at random with the rescue people

until they had homes. When an airperson couldn't afford a doctor, he 
took him to the doctor and paid for it and let him convalesce in his
own 
apartment. He helps with local events like the Film Festival... I
could 
go on for miles, here, and not run out of reasons why Bob Woelfel
should 
run KZYX. All by himself he can handily replace John Coate, Mary
Aigner, 
David Steffen, et al., and the station will save a ton of money and
will 
improve and not continue to stagnate. He is a saint, a fricking
saint.

     There is no-one else with Bob's Woelfel's skills and 
qualifications. I admire Bob Young, who runs KNYO, and Ed Nieves, who

runs KMEC, but they're needed at KNYO and KMEC, and that's the only 
reason I'm not recommending them too.

-end-

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