[Kzyxtalk] [MCN-Discussion]- "fact" checking

[Marco McClean]

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