[Kzyxtalk] My comment for the public comment period of the Monday, June 29 MCPB board meeting in Willits.

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Bravo! . . . Thank you. --beth bosk 

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From: "Marco McClean" 
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Sent:Sun, 28 Jun 2015 23:34:34 -0700
Subject:[Kzyxtalk] My comment for the public comment period of the
Monday, June 29 MCPB board meeting in Willits.

 (Here's what I just sent to the boardmembers of MCPB.)

 Please print this email out and bring it to the Monday, June 29 MCPB

 board meeting in Willits.

 My public comment:

 "I can't make it to the meeting this time. So when you get to the
public 
 comment period I want a board member to read my public comment aloud

 into the record. Any board member or former board member will do. It

 takes three minutes.

 "MCPB spent $575,000 over the last twelve months. KNYO spent $12,000
in 
 the same time. KMEC spent $19,000. The difference between operating
KNYO 
 at 87 watts and operating KZYX remote broadcasts are controlled by 
 the remote broadcaster with one click to go on the air and one click

 when his or her show is over. Any airperson can have a durable, 
 portable, high-quality remote studio for two or three hundred
dollars 
 and be up and running in ten minutes. Those are only a couple of 
 examples; there are more. So when angry people defend the status quo
and 
 KZYX's hemorrhaging of half a million dollars every year on the
grounds 
 that KZYX really needs to blow through that kind of money to keep
the 
 shows on the air, that's just not true; they have it all wrong.
You're 
 doing everything in the most complicated, byzantine, oppressive way 
 possible, just as you've been doing for the past twenty-five years,
and 
 the only reason KZYX didn't fail financially every year of its
existence 
 --including this year-- is you've been bailed out by the annual CPB 
 grant. By anybody's measure, and in any business, that's appallingly
bad 
 corporate management. That's banana-republic-government-quality
management.

 "I know you have a hard time seeing that, for the same reason people

 swear by expensive alternative placebo medical products and
procedures. 
 You've already invested so much faith and money --in the case of
KZYX, 
 other people's money-- and you just naturally have to defend it so
you 
 don't feel like a fool. And anyone pointing out what's wrong with
that 
 becomes a threat to your authority, because if everyone can see
what's 
 wrong, then you not only feel like a fool, you look like one, too.
It's 
 just human nature to get huffy and blame everybody else for the 
 consequences of your own actions. I understand.

 "So John Coate's going, now. If you must have an imperial manager
and 
 pay him $60,000 a year to hang around the station and do the lazy 
 afternoon per month of crucial tasks that keep the station legal,
that 
 person might as well be doing a real radio station manager's work,
which 
 at KZYX would include the positions of David Steffen and Mary
Aigner, 
 and so you can let them go. That single suggestion, if you follow
it, 
 saves you $800,000 over the next ten years, and I have other
suggestions 
 that will save you even more money. I recommend you use that
fountain of 
 money to pay the airpeople, the ones listeners turn on their radios
to 
 hear in the first place.

 (signed) Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org [1] 
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com [2]

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