[Kzyxtalk] [MCN-Discussion]- "fact" checking
Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
Sun Nov 8 04:30:39 PST 2015
Cindy Swan wrote:
> My hunch is that MaryA is ALSO responsible for keeping
> the CPB Grant going, too . . . lotza, lotza, lotza paperwork
Really, Cindy? More paperwork than doing your taxes? /I'd/ like to
get $50,000 a year and control of a county-spanning supposedly public
radio station in return for that. Then I'd pay the airpeople.
>
> . . . yet KZ has to shell out 40-50k/annum
> for the “privilege”
> of providing NPR
> airtime + demographic...
>
The NPR shows in total cost about $25,000. That's a fifth of the
average annual CPB grant, and half what just Mary Aigner is paid, and
it's an even smaller percentage of what the general manager is paid.
> ==> Shouldn’t the warring hoards be taking up that charge with
> “the powers that be” in D.C.? Rather than bickering over local staff salaries?
>
Who's bickering? I'm pointing out that radio is in every way cheaper
and easier than the bosses who skim off all the cream for themselves
want the public to know. And if the bosses are being paid to lord it
over everyone else, then the airpeople, who are actually doing the work
of radio under the thumb of the bosses, should be paid at least as much
per hour.
Bob Woelfel got all of us paid on KMFB, and here's how he did it. He
paid us by the hour for our work, and he gave us a good-sized chunk of
the underwriting money we individually arranged for supporters to pay
the station. So it was on us to make our shows good enough so people
would pay. To put it in current jargon, it incentivized us to excel.
KMFB had the reach KZYX has, and it cost a third as much to operate,
and it got no government grants, and we were all paid, so it's not as
though it's a crazy dream to pay airpeople for their work.
KNYO and KMEC together have 3/4 the reach of KZYX, and together they
cost about 1/20th as much as KZYX to operate.
The biggest expense and major downfall of KZYX&Z is and has always
been bad, greedy, unimaginative, Nixonian management empowered by a
lapdog board of directors.
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Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com
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