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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/8/2015 11:43 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sako4@comcast.net">sako4@comcast.net</a>
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<div aria-label="Compose body">Hi Doug,</div>
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<div aria-label="Compose body">This was posted in Coate's blog
at the KZYX website:</div>
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border: 0px; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;">But we
do not have that kind of money right now nor are we
likely to get it very soon. The fact is, we are in
decent fiscal shape right now but looking ahead a mere
couple of months, we have got to raise more money
locally or we are going to not only be unable to afford
these improvements, but we will again face cutbacks.
Right now is when the CPB is giving us the $54K less.
Our grant payment is due in days. This year it's $33K.
Last year it was more than $80K.</span></span></div>
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Marco here. Then are there more grants but secret ones? Why do
you suppose everything is so secret with them, full details behind
the recent farce of an election included? (An apparent turnout worse
than any banana republic.)<br>
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The simple fact is: without the CPB grant and other taxpayers'
money bailing them out, KZYX would have collapsed under the weight
of its operators' greed every year of its existence, including its
most recent years under John Coate, Mary Aigner, David Steffen, etc.<br>
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That's not great performance by board and management. It's
terrible performance-- the worst possible. And if, as is now out in
the open, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been going every
year just to management in return for their purported tremendous
expertise and skill and diligence at keeping things running right,
you'd think, wouldn't you, that at least electrically and physically
KZYX should be the Cadillac of radio stations, sparkling in the sun,
and not firing on only six or seven cylinders so much of the time.<br>
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A snarky letter to the editor of the AVA last week said that
Sako and his gang of whiners should just shut up about KZYX costing
a fortune for management, compared to other little radio stations,
because KZYX has a great large footprint and is so much harder and
more complicated to keep going and the writer "never even /heard/ of
KMEC or KNYO." (You'll notice he doesn't mention KMUD.)<br>
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Footprint? The difference between a 100-watt transmitter and a
1000-watt transmitter is: the 100-watt transmitter and all its
support equipment (including the mixing board, STL link and lights
and heat for the studio) costs around fifteen cents an hour to run,
and the 1000-watt transmitter and the same support equipment costs
two or three times that. How far a bigger transmitter reaches
doesn't make it any harder to run the radio station-- it makes it
easier. Further, 9/10 of the county's population is in Fort Bragg
and Ukiah and near them, which the little stations reach just fine.
So, footprint, feh.<br>
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The main thing the people running KZYX are doing is guarding it
like junkyard dogs against being used by anyone who might say things
like this every once in awhile.<br>
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