[Kzyxtalk] MCPB Corporation (KZYX) board meeting, 6pm Monday night, Fort Bragg Senior Center.

[John Sakowicz]

 Hi Marco. Isn't Bob Bushansky a kept man? Doesn't his wife, Meg, support him? I don't think he ever held a real job. I think I remember he owned a candy store or something, once upon a time. And Meg inherited her money, right? Or got it in a divorce settlement. Meg certainly didn't make any money selling her so-called ceramics. Anyway, I'm surprised MCPB (KZYX) even announced the Board meeting. Be sure to ask about the recent audit done by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Thanks.> On May 13, 2018 at 10:43 PM Marco McClean <memo at mcn.org> wrote:
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> 
> KZYX board meeting, 6pm Monday night, Senior Center, 490 N. Harold St., 
> Fort Bragg.
> 
> Some new trustees, though one of them is Bob Bushansky, replacing his 
> wife Meg Courtney, so technically not all that new. Bob's campaign 
> paragraph was all about how the station needs to /aggressively get more 
> money/. I think that's all Meg cared about; that's all he cares about: 
> just keep everything the same and somehow get /more and more and more 
> money./ Because that's the purpose of radio for people like that. I 
> think it's creepy but, you know, it takes all kinds to make a world.
> 
> KZYX already flushes away $600,000 every year; that's many times what it 
> should cost. A lot of that is because the manager pays himself and his 
> gang lieutenants in the office $300,000 a year. Just Jeffrey Parker 
> sucks $60,000 out of the station every year for himself. Keep that 
> number in your mind for a moment.
> 
> Corrected for week-splitting alternates and schedule fudges, the station 
> has about 60 airpeople, and they are /not/ being paid. Imagine paying 
> those 60 airpeople $1000 a year each. That's $60,000. The manager gets 
> that amount for doing essentially nothing. He's been there eighteen 
> months, so he's sucked ninety grand out of KZYX so far; that's money the 
> station can't use to replace old equipment or pay bills or paint the 
> shed. Right now the airpeople get paid nothing, and they're doing all 
> their shows all year, showing up and doing the real work, even the 
> slackers among them; they do /everything/ including participating in 
> pledge drives, begging the public for money to, you know, keep their 
> shows on the air. But, see above, the money is all going to the people 
> in charge. The shows aren't affected one way or the other by that money. 
> They'd still be on. And the federal CPB grant of like $160,000 a year 
> /way/ more than pays for all the syndicated shows.
> 
> So why don't the airpeople complain? you might ask. Well, try to think 
> of the name of any airperson ever at KZYX who got up on his hind legs 
> and spoke even slantwise about management, on or off the air, and got to 
> keep his airtime. Some airpeople at KZYX are retired or independently 
> wealthy and don't need the money; it's a hobby to them, like roses or 
> golf or wine. A lot of them don't know any better and think this is just 
> the way things have to be. But everyone knows that at KZYX --and it's 
> been this way from the beginning-- anyone who speaks up is thrown out 
> like trash and they're out permanently. The place has been selectively 
> culled of the sort of people who are likely to stick up for themselves. 
> And the ones remaining are the kind who will band together to defend 
> their own oppression. It's not exactly Stockholm syndrome, but it's 
> pretty close. No, it's more like /Animal Farm./
> 
> Anyway, Bob Bushansky. He, like everyone else on the board so far except 
> for a couple of crackpot pariah minority boardmembers a few years back 
> who dared to ask to inspect the station's secret ledgers (the /cheek/ of 
> those guys) and so were forced out, thinks everything is perfect just 
> the way it is except there just should be even /more/ money than 
> $600,000 a year involved, where in fact it costs less than a dollar an 
> hour to keep all the transmitters, STL units, studios, lights and 
> computers pumped with electricity, no matter how many deejays sit down 
> before the mic. Welcome, new MCPB (KZYX) board member Bob Bushansky. 
> Maybe you can show the new treasurer, whoever that turns out to be, how 
> to make some quick cash by stealing paintbrushes and selling them on 
> eBay, and then yez can parley that into something fabulous.
> 
> See you Monday night.
> 
> 
> --
> Marco McClean
> memo at mcn.org
> https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com
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