[Kzyxtalk] Bandwidth.

[Marco McClean]

On 1/11/2022 1:45 AM, Del Potter wrote:
 > If he had the bandwidth, Marco would be perfect for the role.


Marco here. How do you mean bandwidth, Del? Because I'm guessing you 
mean that I'm all single-issue focused on KZYX. Every once in a while 
I'll be doing my show on KNYO and either promoting a show on KZYX in 
passing or otherwise reminded of the place, and I'll express my feelings 
on the subject for like a minute at most and then continue with the 
material I brought to read on my 8-hour show on KNYO. Like now. I'm 
taking a couple of minutes to write you and then I'm going to my day 
job. If by bandwidth you mean time on the issue relative to other 
issues, then... no, that can't be it. That's like one in 480.

Regarding running for the board, basically, I don't like the idea of 
paying them money I don't have, for the privilege of running for an 
office where I'll have no say in anything even if I win. When John 
Sakowicz was on the board of MCPB (KZYX) and was the treasurer, he 
became justifiably frustrated by never being allowed to speak and by 
being excluded from the real inner circles, and by having his political 
interview radio show physically sabotaged and then being kicked off the 
air permanently for expressing miffment about that, then was required to 
abase himself before the fraud CEO and the dictatorial program director 
who orchestrated the whole operation against him and who were 
technically serving at the board's whim. And John, as well as being on 
the corporate board at the time, was treasurer of the corporation, see 
above, with oodles of qualifications for the position, and the CEO and 
John's fellow boardmembers refused him access to the station's financial 
books. I repeat: The treasurer of the corporation was not allowed to 
look at the books, because of corporate fear that he might publish 
information in them. That's just to list one instance of the corruption 
within that smiley-face, perpetually-genially-stoned-sounding place.

About the requirement to be a member to run for a plastic chair on the 
board: We've all already paid and are paying for KZYX, whether we want 
to or not, when we pay taxes. There's the government's priceless gift to 
MCPB to squat on the natural resource of three frequencies in the FM 
band and blanket the county, speaking of bandwidth, and the government's 
gift to them of a six-figure grant every year, that pours, like the 
membership money, mainly into the personal bank accounts of a handful of 
people in the office, who pay the real workers, the local airpeople, 
/nothing at all/ for their work, not even a stipend of minimum wage for 
their hour or two each per week. The eligible voters for boardmembers 
are a pool of people who like the way things are set in stone at KZYX 
enough to also pay $50 each basically to keep an electric fence around 
the stone. And the entire campaign time for boardmembers is limited to a 
few minutes of scripted blather in a one-hour-per-year show where 
called-in and written-in questions are screened by the manager and 
existing board rep, and the microphones are turned up and down, and on 
and off, under control of one of their trained seals or the trainer.

If any administration of KZYX had ever, at any time, uncircled the 
wagons and allowed any local with any kind of an edge to do a real 
ungagged show there, and I'm not talking about the sportstalk show, this 
all could be truly democratically cleaned up. As it was and is, and as 
that's never going to happen, no way.

Anyway, Del, I'd really like to know what you mean, if that's not it. 
Please respond.


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