<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>If Marco endorses Bob Woefel, then Woefel has got my vote.<br></div><div><br></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;"><b>From: </b>"Marco McClean" <memo@mcn.org><br><b>To: </b>"MCPB Board" <BOD@kzyx.org><br><b>Cc: </b>editor@theava.com, "kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org>, discussion@lists.mcn.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, June 16, 2015 1:43:47 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Kzyxtalk] Another in a series of proposals for KZYX: Bob Woelfel for manager, program director and business coordinator.<br><div><br></div><br>On 6/15/2015 10:14 AM, Doug McKenty wrote:<br> > ...Mary Aigner's fate depends on who the next manager will be, and <br>what happens in the meantime.<br><div><br></div> Again, if KZYX must have a manager, please put forth Bob Woelfel's <br>name. He can do all the management paperwork tasks, and the program <br>director tasks, and the ad sales (business underwriting) tasks, and the <br>intelligently-conciliating-disgruntled-members-and/or-airpeople stuff, <br>and do it all with good cheer; he's been doing it all his life since he <br>got home from military service, and he knows Mendocino County's business <br>and social and political scene like the back of his hand, and I don't <br>know anyone who doesn't like him.<br><div><br></div> I have seen people in the office screaming at each other and the <br>world, and he walked in, glanced at them, continued on into the kitchen, <br>ate a pickled egg, then put up his hand and said a few simple calm <br>things and they all shut up and went to do their jobs and have their <br>lives, and they were all satisfied that they'd been heard, by each other <br>and by him, and they were amused at how they'd been carrying on. It was <br>magical.<br><div><br></div> I can't count the times something about KMFB --a single piece of <br>equipment or a complicated system-- was seriously messed up and Bob <br>called me in to fix it, and I said something like, "That's too hard. We <br>need a whole new [fill in blank]," and he said something that put it in <br>a new light and made it easier, and I fixed it. There were times he had <br>a special project for me and I couldn't figure out how to do it, and he <br>said, "How about if we..." and it became clear, and I did it. He knew <br>that what he wanted could be done, and that made it so I did too. And <br>when it was something I wasn't qualified to touch, he knew that, and <br>he'd call one of half a dozen radio engineers he's friends with, and <br>they'd jump to help him.<br><div><br></div> He saw that all of us were paid. He set up a system where we were <br>responsible for bringing in advertising money for our own shows, and we <br>were paid by the hour /and/ we got a generous cut of the money we <br>contracted. This would work with noncommercial KZYX with business <br>underwriting as well as it worked for commercial KMFB, which had the <br>same broadcast range as KZYX and cost a fourth the money to operate, <br>even after paying all the airpeople and engineers.<br><div><br></div> He loves to practically live in the radio station, leisurely <br>accomplishing things and enjoying himself in the background and leaving <br>the independent airpeople alone to do their thing, and when he's <br>required by the more dependent airpeople he appears and helps them.<br><div><br></div> He attracts real radio people and lets them do their work in their <br>own way, and when someone goes entirely off the rails he waits until <br>their show is done and then tells them his concerns and they correct <br>themselves. In all the years I've known him, I'm sure he had his own <br>politics and his own opinions and /I don't know what they are/; think <br>about that for a moment, really. He gives everyone a chance to shine, no <br>matter what they believe in or are for or against.<br><div><br></div> That's the sort of person who should run KZYX. And once we were in <br>the printer room talking about the general subject of appropriate <br>language and he said to me, "I don't mind shit or goddammit, but if you <br>can, Marco, please hold the motherfuckers and cocksuckers until after <br>midnight." (That was the only time I ever heard him say any of those <br>words.) In all the years that Bob Woelfel oversaw KMFB there was not a <br>single audience complaint to the FCC on any subject, and KMFB was way <br>more free than KZYX has ever been, and there was no electronic profanity <br>delay nor any need for one.<br><div><br></div> Some people are too much. Sister Yasmin drove Bob crazy with her <br>drama and anguish and so on, yet he kept her on for nearly ever anyway, <br>and even when he was pushed beyond any administrator's endurance he <br>didn't fire her-- look at what he did: he had me build a special studio <br>just for her out at the transmitter site, so she could keep doing her <br>show and he wouldn't have the aggravation of her being all in his face <br>at the office, until she could control herself and things could be <br>normal again. See this? He didn't fire her; he made a way for her to <br>solve the problem herself, and trusted her to do it, and of course she <br>did. That's his way.<br><div><br></div> Some of the best people at KZYX and KOZT and probably four or five <br>other stations around here started at KMFB.<br><div><br></div> He helped homeless people. He brought the animal-rescue people in <br>to talk about their work, and when they were having trouble homing <br>abandoned exotic dragon-creatures he set up habitats and kept them in <br>the office and did a show about them at random with the rescue people <br>until they had homes. When an airperson couldn't afford a doctor, he <br>took him to the doctor and paid for it and let him convalesce in his own <br>apartment. He helps with local events like the Film Festival... I could <br>go on for miles, here, and not run out of reasons why Bob Woelfel should <br>run KZYX. All by himself he can handily replace John Coate, Mary Aigner, <br>David Steffen, et al., and the station will save a ton of money and will <br>improve and not continue to stagnate. He is a saint, a fricking saint.<br><div><br></div> There is no-one else with Bob's Woelfel's skills and <br>qualifications. I admire Bob Young, who runs KNYO, and Ed Nieves, who <br>runs KMEC, but they're needed at KNYO and KMEC, and that's the only <br>reason I'm not recommending them too.<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div><br>-end-<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>