<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">Bravo, Marco. </div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">We have better programs than KZYX -- for example, your excellent programs-- and we do it all for under $20,000 a year.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Incidentally, I'll be interviewing former NATO commander General Wesley Clark (U.S. Army retired) soon on KMEC. </div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">See my piece in today's Ukiah Daily Journal: <a href="http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/opinion/20161012/history-is-still-whitewashed">http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/opinion/20161012/history-is-still-whitewashed</a></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">John at <a href="http://www.kmecradio.org">www.kmecradio.org</a> </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;" 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>editor@theava.com<br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, October 12, 2016 5:10:08 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Kzyxtalk] A clear choice. Help out real radio, KMEC and KNYO.<br><div><br></div>A clear choice. Help out real radio, KMEC and KNYO.<br><div><br></div><br>KZYX is run by Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, a corporation run <br>by people so inept that, even with $140,000 to $190,000 every year in <br>tax-derived CPB bailout money, it (corporate speech) claims it can't <br>afford to pay good local airpeople to do their shows and it even <br>requires them to use their airtime to beg for even more money to pour <br>down the rat-hole of its secretive, Nixonian administration. Somehow <br>--and they've never given an open accounting as to exactly how-- they <br>blow well over half a million dollars every year, with nothing to show <br>for it. One year not too long ago they managed the magic trick of <br>spending over three-quarters of a million dollars. And I repeat: they <br>don't pay their airpeople, and they refuse to even consider paying them.<br><div><br></div><br>When you're smarmily reminded by KZYX by mail or on the air of how <br>important it is for you to donate and become a member to keep the great <br>shows on the air (as they put it), they are lying to you. There's no <br>other word for it: they are big fat liars.<br><div><br></div><br>KMEC in Ukiah gets by on $20,000 a year. They don't get any government <br>grant. They need your money much more than KZYX does. KNYO in Fort Bragg <br>gets by on between ten and twelve thousand a year. They don't get a <br>government grant. They also need your money more than KZYX does. There's <br>rent on the storefront performance space, and electricity, and city <br>water to flush the toilet and wash your hands, and so on. If KNYO had <br>just a little more money it could have a much better mixing board in the <br>main place and more guest microphones, and it wouldn't cost much to <br>power-blackout-proof the transmitter and every one of the many satellite <br>studios KNYO airpeople use.<br><div><br></div><br>Support KMEC: http://kmecradio.org<br><div><br></div><br>Support KNYO: http://knyo.org<br><div><br></div><br>Also, if you have a great show to offer and you take it to KZYX, they <br>will not schedule it. They will keep on syndicated shows from Boston and <br>Minnesota, and they will run and rerun the same recorded syndicated <br>shows over and over in the night, and they will keep on ossified <br>airpeople who show up with nothing, no preparation, no dedication, who <br>sleepwalk through their airtime, and they will put you off for years, <br>ignore you and/or insult you, and when you point this out they will go, <br>/See? We don't want someone on KZYX who gets upset after being pissed on <br>and treated with disdain for a quarter of a century. We were right all <br>along to exclude you and your work. Ta ta./<br><div><br></div><br>If you take your show to KMEC or KNYO, they will make an effort to <br>schedule it. Here's my experience: When I brought my show (Memo of the <br>Air: Good Night Radio) to KMFB in early 1997, Bob Woelfel told me how <br>much underwriting I had to bring in to pay for it, and I went out that <br>afternoon and drove around and arranged it, and my show went on that <br>week, and Bob paid me for my time on the air, a cut of the underwriting, <br>and also paid me for maintenance work at the station. When I brought my <br>show to KNYO in 2012, Bob Young met me at the studio, showed me what to <br>click on to get on the air, pointed at the microphone switch, and my <br>show was on the schedule the next week. When I contacted Ed Nieves last <br>year about getting my show on KMEC, there was a problem with other shows <br>conflicting for the time, so he told me he'd talk to the others and move <br>things around until it could work, and set Sid Cooperider on the <br>technical case, and now my show is not only on KNY0 107.7fm in Fort <br>Bragg 9pm-4am every Friday night, but I also have KMEC 105.1fm from <br>midnight to 3am the same night. That was almost 15 years on KMFB, and <br>it's almost four years for KNYO and a year for KMEC, respectively.<br><div><br></div><br>Just to let you know: that's how it goes at a real public radio station. <br>That's how it can go for you.<br><div><br></div><br>KZYX doesn't need your money. KMEC and KNYO do; the only difference <br>between them and KZYX is the difference in allowable transmitter power. <br>When the poobahs at KZYX tell you that it's /fifty to seventy times/ as <br>complicated and expensive to run their station compared to KNYO, that is <br>just another part of their ongoing big fat lie.<br><div><br></div><br>-- <br>Marco McClean<br>memo@mcn.org<br>http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com<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>