<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">Marco,</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Thank you for this wonderful letter. If I had anything to say about it, you'd be on the air at KZYX. But hey, who am I? I'm only a Board member. And a KMEC programmer, where I am very happy with KMEC's positive attitude and all-volunteer culture. </div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Did I mention that KMEC's total budget is less than $20,000, whereas KZYX's budget is pushing $650,000-$700,000? </div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Did I also fail to mention that KZYX GM John Coate will not disclose his salary, even to the KZYX Board, nor the salaries of Programming Potentate, Mary Aigner, nor any other staff member?</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Ah, your community radio station -- KZYX! </div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">John Sakowicz</div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Marco McClean" <memo@mcn.org><br><b>To: </b>"kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br><b>Cc: </b>membership@kzyx.org, discussion@lists.mcn.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, December 26, 2014 3:44:21 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Kzyxtalk] Simple Living Membership<br><div><br></div>Here's the text of the letter to KZYX I wrapped around my check:<br><div><br></div>KZYX&Z, P.O. Box 1, Philo, CA 95466<br><div><br></div>Mary and John and money-changing staff, accept this check for $25 for a <br>Simple Living Membership.<br><div><br></div>I had to force myself to send this money, because I so don't have it to <br>throw around and so don't want to reward you*, but I want to have a <br>voice and a vote on the direction KZYX goes, and apparently this is the <br>only way, even though you've got literally millions of tax dollars in <br>grants over the last 25 years, so...<br><div><br></div>It's coming up on three years since I offered my show to you <br>--description, long good history, letters of reference, letters to your <br>Program Advisory Committee (which I found out a year later doesn't even <br>exist), 15 years of samples, jumped through all your hoops, continued <br>email contact and updating, and you've taken zero steps to put Memo of <br>the Air: Good Night Radio on KZYX. Given my safe and wonderful and <br>good-natured track record in teaching and publishing and radio I <br>consider it to be a measure of your incompetence that my show was not on <br>KZYX within six months. That would have been late summer of 2012.<br><div><br></div>*Two thousand (2000) (!) regular $50 memberships don't add up to what <br>KZYX management scarfs up in personal pay, where none of the people <br>actually doing the work of radio are paid a cent, nor even allowed <br>autonomy in the content and operation of their own shows. That's one of <br>the things that I'm going to vote to change.<br><div><br></div>Happy new year.<br><div><br></div>Marco McClean, box 1497, Mendocino, CA 95460<br><div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>Kzyxtalk mailing list<br>Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br>http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>