[grc] Does anyone remember the NFCB Healthy Station Project?
jeffery humfeld
humjeff at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 6 22:33:30 PST 2014
Paul is very much correct, the success that Friends of Community Radio had in taking KKFI back from those that wanted to change it's mission was in great part perseverance (they blinked), good legal advice and LUCK. We did try to strengthen our bylaws in the aftermath but I would not trust them to protect us against this new HSP like effort. It takes vigilance, we are expecting a visit from NFCB in the next week or so to do training in board responsibilities and best practices. Many of us are very concerned.
What I didn't relate in my first message was what came after we regained control of the station. The long period of conflict, finger pointing, personnel mistakes, and personal attacks. There were some who wanted to purge everyone brought into the station during the previous regime and there were more than one toxic person left in their wake. Myself, I was of the mind that we should not do what they did. I said we needed to determine the atmosphere in the station, the model of governance and the mission we wanted to follow and that those that did not fit would leave on their own or refuse to follow the rules and allow themselves to be removed. For the most part that is what happened but it was not pretty or easy to endure. (For my own part it was not until I left the board that I was able to eliminate the blood pressure medicine I was taking).
While we do not have 6 hour, acrimony filled board meetings any more we still have our problems and internal strife. Many of those differences are the same issues we all share to one degree or another; music vs public affairs, how money is spent and what it is spent on, mission vs money, cultural, generational and racial issues and more. We deal with them or not in a much more civil way than before, but as in any democratic organization with lofty goals we sometimes fall short. I guess it is as much about the journey as it is the destination.
jeffh
On Thursday, November 6, 2014 12:44 AM, Elizabeth Robinson <elizabeth.robinson at kcsb.org> wrote:
Hear, hear!
On Nov 5, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Paul Bame wrote:
> KKFI is an inspiration, but I caution that even having a tight legal
> case based on state law and good bylaws is not sufficient, even if
> you sue, even if you win (or get a good settlement). If the forces
> and values which allowed the violations to begin and persist are
> still around, then even throwing a few bums out and resolving to
> follow laws and bylaws may be insufficient.
>
> Also courts are often not terribly concerned about nonprofit
> corporation members' rights let alone bylaws, and let's face it,
> MOST people could give a shit about bylaws. In the larger sphere,
> most people are similarly uninterested in government policy details
> too, so if that's the arena you are depending on for protection,
> it is pretty thin. Think also about the routine individual
> rights violations our government perpetrates daily with hardly
> a whimper, heck even with tacit and blatant support, and it shows
> we are woefully unprepared by our daily experience as citizens(?)
> to fight for such things in the small either.
>
> I've come to think that combating HSP and all the similar ilk of
> battles at radio stations must occur in the plane of values, beliefs,
> personal relationships, organizing, and group messaging -- the
> very things with which the authoritarian mindset so deftly
> manipulates most of us so that we cooperate in exiling the few
> who resist.
>
> -p
>
> On 2014-11-03 19:20, 'jeffery humfeld' via grc at peak.org wrote:
>> I cannot comment on the tenets of the HSP as I was working out of
>> town a lot when it was introduced at KKFI and was not involved in the
>> process. I can give my opinion on how it contributed to the battle we
>> had at KKFI to keep our mission to serve the voiceless and highlight
>> the heritage music of our community.
>>
>> It was the professionalism mantra and the enhanced fundraising
>> prospects that led directly to our choice of Station Manager. He
>> subsequently packed the Board with cronies, pushed most of our African
>> American programmers out the door and ultimately tried to substitute a
>> false set of bylaws that eviscerated the members rights. It was the
>> bylaws that tripped him up and we came to an agreement that ended his
>> reign and reinstated the original bylaws shortly before we were to go
>> to court.
>>
>> Trading democracy and the local mission of community radio for a
>> staff run station that may or may not raise big bucks with monoculture
>> programming will end community buy in and make you just another spot
>> on the dial.
>> jeffh
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 8:40 PM, "'Donna Dibianco' via
>> grc at peak.org" <grc at peak.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> We did the same thing at KSFR. Actually, my GM at the time, made me
>> and the steering committee review the project outline and make our
>> recommendations.
>> We declined to participate, but incorporated some of the methods outlined.
>>
>> Santa Fe, back then would have never put up with it. Not with the
>> team we had...
>>
>>
>> Donna DiBianco
>> Station Start-up Specialist
>> 503-960-1068
>> http://www.communityradiogoddess.com/
>> www.linkedin.com/pub/donna-dibianco/2b/13b/459/
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Heather Gray <hmcgray at earthlink.net>
>> To: Donna Dibianco <communityradiogoddess at yahoo.com>; Sharon Lockhart
>> <slockhart at kc.rr.com>; "grc at peak.org" <grc at peak.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 7:03 PM
>> Subject: Re: [grc] Does anyone remember the NFCB Healthy Station Project?
>>
>>
>> I know a lot of folks have their stories about the Healthy Station
>> Project. At WRFG in Atlanta in the early 1990's we kicked them out of our
>> station. Atlantan's organized against them and the entire concept. The
>> representatives were shocked.
>>
>> Heather Gray
>> WRFG-Atlanta 89.3FM
>> 404 234 4630 (cell)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/29/14 8:52 PM, "'Donna Dibianco' via grc at peak.org" <grc at peak.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You summed it up quite nicely...
>>> The 5x5 model is the 21st Century Healthy Station project...
>>>
>>> Not sure where you want to go with this, but, HSP is the whole reason why
>>> we have GRC and R4P.
>>> It was, in my opinion, the division of Community and Public Radio...and
>>> forever will be in my mind, heart, and spirit.
>>>
>>>
>>> Donna DiBianco
>>> Station Start-up Specialist
>>> 503-960-1068
>>> http://www.communityradiogoddess.com/
>>> www.linkedin.com/pub/donna-dibianco/2b/13b/459/
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Sharon Lockhart <slockhart at kc.rr.com>
>>> To: grc at peak.org
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 5:38 PM
>>> Subject: [grc] Does anyone remember the NFCB Healthy Station Project?
>>>
>>>
>>> If you remember the details of the 'Health Station Project' from the late
>>> 90's, please reply with your comments and opinions.
>>>
>>> As I understand, it was to switch to a AAA music format with all paid
>>> staff
>>> and no volunteers, or active members. Essentially, it would eliminate
>>> Public Affairs and become another Top 40 music station.
>>>
>>> Is this correct? Please reply.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Sharon Lockhart
>>> KKFI PA Programmer
>>> Every Woman 3 - 4 pm Sat.
>>> One of 2011 GRC host/organizers
>>>
>>>
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Elizabeth Robinson
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