[Kzyxtalk] KZYX and Labor Day.

[Marco McClean]

On 9/1/2025 12:46 AM, Joshua Daniels wrote:
 > Marco, Why don’t you disclose that you represent KNYO, and that you 
want people’s money to go to KNYO instead of KZYX? Then you could just 
speak in facts and not have to make disingenuous nonsensical arguments. 
Just a thought.

Marco here, Josh. Okay, I'll give you another couple minutes of my time, 
but that's all for tonight; I'm working on this coming week's 
eight-hour-long all-Friday-night Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show, 
after all, and I have a day job to make at least a cameo appearance at 
tomorrow, as well as get my car fixed, and pick up a donated computer 
for my wife's mother, and visit my own mother, who is recovering from a 
broken arm. I have to sleep sometime.

I disclose the existence of my show on KNYO and KAKX here at length 
twice every week. I don't represent them. They allow me to connect and 
do my show, and I'm grateful. And I volunteer because the managers of 
the stations volunteer. If Bob Young, for example, was paying himself 
with money my show brought in, I would expect to be paid for my work. 
And I subscribe to the sentiment: Let a thousand flowers bloom. Support 
all the art that you appreciate by supporting the artists.

The main difference between the stations you mention is broadcast 
radius, which gives KZYX a far greater area to beg for money from, at 
the cost of $1.90 more per hour for electricity. Yet KZYX somehow burns 
up enough money to operate /fifty/ radio stations like KNYO and KAKX, 
not to mention two or three times what it truly needs itself, and, I 
repeat, KZYX does not pay the local airpeople, though it can and always 
could. You think that's fine, I think it's cynical and Trumpish. We can 
agree to disagree.

I did almost fifteen years at KMFB, all night every Friday night, and 
also did a lot of engineering work for the station. KMFB had all the 
reach and responsibilities and facilities and relationships and 
operating expenses and complexity of KZYX, but without any government 
grant money ever, and ran on 1/3 of KZYX's budget, in a depressed radio 
market, and manager Bob Woelfel kept it sailing along and paid all of us 
by the hour as well as a cut from the ad money we brought in, every 
month, before he paid himself. It was a point of honor for him.

I'm not arguing nor shilling for anyone. I'm relating well-documented 
facts, in the warm, gentle tone of a person speaking to a small child 
sitting in his lap.

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