[Kzyxtalk] letter -- management changes at KZYX

[John Sakowicz]

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To the Editor:


I read with great interest that KZYX has hired a new General Manager, Marty Durlin. I also read that the station will be hiring a new Program Director.


Let’s hope the new General Manager and Program Director — both — work together in ending KZYX’s long-standing “blacklisted for life” policy.


The policy is censorship in its ugliest form. It is oppressive and not in keeping with the mission and values of a truly “public” radio station, not that KZYX ever purported to be truly public. KZYX has been, for many years, a club of insiders.


Here’s where the new management of KZYX should start:


1. Marco McClean and his “Memo of the Air” should be on the KZYX schedule. This action should be taken immediately. Mr. McClean produces some of the best and most interesting radio I've heard in my entire life, and he does it for several hours at a stretch. In a four- or five-hour show, I'm never bored.


2. Doug McKenty should host his “Open Lines” show again.


3. Norman de Vall should resume his interviewing candidates running for public office during election season.


4. K.C. Meadows of the Ukiah Daily Journal should have a public affairs show.


5. Bruce Anderson and Mark Scaramella of the Anderson Valley Advertiser should have a public affairs show.


6. Beth Bosk of the New Settler Interview should have a public affairs show.


7. Me? I got tired of waiting. I now host and produce “Heroes and Patriots” out of KMUD, with Mary Massey, formerly of WPLN, Nashville Public Radio. However, it would be nice if KZYX carried the rebroadcast of our show, as some other stations do.


At “Heroes and Patriots”, we hope our next two guests will be General Wesley Clark, U.S. Army (retired), former NATO Commander, on Thursday, April 4, and Roger McNamee, Silicon Valley billionaire and author of “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe”, on Thursday, May 2.


Our show airs the first Thursday of every month at 9 am, For listeners out of the broadcast area, we stream live from the web at http://www.kmud.org/ .


Please support truly public, community radio at KMUD. We are “neighbors making radio for neighbors”.


— John Sakowicz, Ukiah CA
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