[Kzyxtalk] The KZYX deciders.

[Marco McClean]

On 9/26/2018 10:54 PM, liz at mcn.org wrote:
 > ...Also, opinions expressed via the KZ comment line (707-895-9619) 
are noted by the deciders in Philo. They have been actively inviting 
listener opinions re the recent schedule changes. Yielding to massive 
public outcry, they switched Fresh Air back to noon.


Oh, you mean the /deciders/ in the KZYX office who suck $300,000 out of 
the station for themselves every year, who pay the local airpeople zero 
while requiring you and all the others to beg for their money for them 
in seasonal pledge drives, and whose abysmal incompetence at radio would 
have utterly sunk KZYX every single year going back to the beginning if 
not for a handful of rich controlling-interest secret donors and the 
annual six-figure federal CPB shot in the arm? Where all the 
transmitters and studios pumping at once cost less than a dollar an hour 
to run, while the high-power broadcast license, granted to Mendocino 
County Public Broadcasting Corporation's control for free, is a license 
to coin money, and /still/ the station is constantly dead broke? Those 
deciders?

And whoop-de-doo, Fresh Air. Terry Gross is paid upwards of $250,000 a 
year for doing her hour-long NPR Fresh Air show, to interview the 
grandson of the inventor of the windshield wiper about his new 
gluten-free cake business or to chuckle with Henry Kissinger over tea 
and cigars. Just Ira Glass and the two producers of his one-hour-a-week 
NPR show get $500,000 a year. Liz, aren't you worth even ten dollars an 
hour for your show, with all the prep you do and all the decades of 
experiential oomph behind it, not to mention the literal ton of music 
library you maintain? You do a two hour show, the decider there lounging 
around in his leather chair in his pin-stiped suit should peel you off a 
twenty from his clip, at least, on your way out, whether you or the boys 
let him slap yez on the ass or not.


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