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[Tim Gregory]

Caveat Emptor

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> On Jan 11, 2023, at 2:13 PM, Marco McClean <memo at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> On 1/11/2023 11:58 AM, JR Rossum wrote:
>> Have you ever noticed how that every time you send them a little 
> money, their signal gets weaker and they decide to expand?
> 
> JR, have you ever noticed that they pay just the manager and program 
> director /all/ the membership money you give the station? Around 2000 
> members at $25 or $50 a year, and a few who give a little extra, amounts 
> to $100,000. The manager pays herself $60,000 out of that, plus full 
> medical and dental and vision. If the program director gets $40,000, 
> then that's all the money, to two people in the office.
> 
> But because of donations from corporations and rich ranch families and 
> winery types, not to mention the $160,000 annual CPB grant, they have 
> enough to pay the surprisingly small expenses of keeping on the air and 
> keeping a roof overhead and the lights on, and enough left over so that 
> lately they've bought and are spiffing up a new office palace in Ukiah, 
> besides. You might recall my mentioning they don't pay the local 
> airpeople, and that the airpeople's representative on the board has 
> never brought it up, except once at a board meeting when I pointed it 
> out, and the aptly named Jerry Karp, the airpeople's representative at 
> the time, turned to the boardmember next to him, repeated what I'd said, 
> and they both chuckled at the very idea of it.
> 
> Any suggestions of improvement or change in any area are simply 
> stonewalled and ignored until objectors get tired and go away. That's 
> the way it's always been at KZYX, all the way back to 1989. Ask Joel 
> Waldman... Oh, wait, you can't. He died of old age waiting twenty-five 
> years for his issues to be addressed.
> 
> Rudy Redwood wrote, "Geez. It seems like Alicia Bales has been there
> from the start but I thought that she was in the news arena. Too bad 
> that these egomaniacs can just randomly fire the volunteers - she was a 
> volunteer - not paid - right?"
> 
> No, Alicia Bales is the Program Director, the second-highest-paid person 
> there, after the manager. Or was until yesterday. Next week there'll be 
> another one. Meanwhile I think the second-highest-paid person might be
> the Business Underwriting Coordinator, or the Vice President in Charge 
> of Fundraising Strategy. It might be the Logo Designer, or the Bells And 
> Whistles Shaker and Blower. I dunno. It won't be any of the local 
> airpeople who actually use the transmitter to do radio on KZYX, because 
> all of them preparing for and doing their shows all year long, all put 
> together, year after year after year, continue to be paid nothing,
> 
> --
> Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
> https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com
> 
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