[Kzyxtalk] Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- Chris Skyhawk KZYX RESIGNATION letter

[Marco McClean]

On 5/26/2025 4:48 PM, Chris Skyhawk wrote:
 > Hello KZYX members and community, this is Chris Skyhawk, I am writing 
to inform you of my decision to resign as a KZYX public affairs 
programmer, I am very disheartened with the direction the station is 
currently taking...

Marco here. Not letting good airpeople with interesting projects use 
KZYX for their show, and ignoring them, and kicking people out, and 
sabotaging them, and banning them for life simply for not quite being 
the right sort of people to suit the politburo of decisionmakers there 
did not start five minute ago, Chris. Everyone, you included, Rich C. 
included, who's been there for many years looked the other way whenever 
it happened, and those I spoke to all nervously said the same thing to 
explain their lack of solidarity: "I don't get involved in the office 
politics. I just want to do my show." And yez all got to keep doing your 
shows, because that was the test. Now you're oldish and tired, and you 
don't wanta do your show so much as you used to, you get up on your hind 
legs and cry /unfair/. I want to say it's never too late to do the right 
thing, but that's not true. Because nobody with any power at KZYX, in 
front of or behind the curtain, has ever done the right thing, it was 
too late right off the bat. But go ahead, roll another manager just like 
all sixteen or twenty previous managers, for something to do with your 
fingers. Why not.

A real manager would start by paying the airpeople, even if only a 
pittance, a /token/ of respect. And stop lying that the membership money 
goes to keep the great shows on the air, when in fact all the membership 
dollars go directly into the private bank accounts of two people in the 
office suite who are barely interested in doing radio themselves, and 
who are so unnecessary to the operation they could just decide not to 
come in one day and stay home in bed with their phone off for weeks 
before anybody noticed and asked where they were. That's one big 
difference between a worker and a so-called manager. If an airperson 
misses a single airdate by one minute, that's it. That shows who's 
needed and who's not, and who should be fricking paid.

The atmosphere. The fear and tense palpable angst in that place, 
whenever I went there. It was like walking into a wall. Can I get an 
out-loud amen from others who have felt that.

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