[Kzyxtalk] [MCN-Announce]- A new Low: The absolute worst musical segue EVER !

[Marco McClean]

On 5/16/2017 11:31 PM, Cur Mudgeon wrote:
 > ...I said to myself, What the FUCK?! Did my radio go berserk? Did the 
DeeJay actually go from Gabriel Faure to fucking BLUEGRASS? I noted the 
station; yup, KZYX - it figures. I called the station, and, after many 
rings, a woman answered. I asked, "Was I hearing things, or did you just 
go from Gabriel Faure to a Bluegrass song ?" " Yup, I did, she said, you 
got a problem with that ?"


Marco here. Here's a thought: Maybe if the manager of KZYX were less of 
a pimp and didn't expect the airpeople to use their airtime to beg the 
public for money to pay him and his handful of office drones $260,000 a 
year, which alone is /ten times the entire annual budget of KMEC, and 
more than twenty times the entire annual budget of KNYO/, but instead 
actually paid the local airpeople for their time and their work before 
he diverts $5,000 into his own pocket every single month, the airpeople 
might feel motivated to try a little harder, prep a little longer, and 
not just shuffle in and sleepwalk through their gig.

Or maybe there was some deep puzzle of a connection between one piece of 
music and the next that just went right up your back and over your head. 
The bluegrass guys' names might be anagrams of the names of the first 
chorus members in the recording of the Requiem. Or maybe Gabriel Faure's 
first cousin, and wet-dream crush, founded a banjo and kazoo factory. Or 
there was some clue in the musical motif. Something like that. You might 
do a little digging and get a pleasant /aha!/ surprise.

Either the airpeople are valuable to the station and to radio, and as 
creative workers doing worthwhile work, or they're not, but Mendocino 
County Public Broadcasting Corporation, in the person of the manager of 
KZYX, despite what he might smarmily stutter on the subject, clearly 
demonstrates that to him the airpeople are all worthless and that their 
time and work have no value. Or he would pay them before he pays 
himself, the way a real manager should be expected to, and not take all 
the money, and leave the workers with nothing but memories of being 
permitted to work.

I repeat: Bob Young does everything for KNYO that the entire office at 
KZYX does for KZYX, and Bob manages it all in a lazy afternoon per month 
and doesn't ask for a penny for himself. People should think about all 
this when KZYX pledge time comes around, and pick a radio station that's 
doing it right and needs their money, KNYO, say, or KMEC, or KMUD, and 
put the money where it will do some good, because in addition to all the 
secret big donors' controlling donations and the members' dues KZYX gets 
a six-figure grant from the national Corporation for Public Broadcasting 
every year, and that grant is enough twice over to cover all the real 
expenses and overhead there, if it were managed properly by people who 
were in it for radio instead of for money and power for themselves. And 
without that tax-derived shot in the arm KZYX would have gone $150,000 
into the red and failed utterly every year of its existence, including 
this year. That's how bad the MCPB corporation is and has always been at 
running a radio station.


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Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com