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[Katharine Cole]

Wow, but I'm below the poverty level every tax year somehow. Strange.

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 7:38 PM Tim Gregory <tgregory at saber.net> wrote:

> Caveat Emptor
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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