About and Contact

My name is Marco Angelo McClean. Memo Of The Air – Good Night Radio is a radio show on KNYO (107.7fm) in Fort Bragg, CA and KMEC in Ukiah*. On Friday nights from 9pm (California time) until very late (usually after 4am) I read local writing and stories and articles from the web and from books and magazines. And I play old music and old-time radio drama from my collection and new music that catches my ear.

Email me stories and poems you write and I’ll read them on the very next Memo of the Air. My email address is memoNOSPAM@mcn.org (remove NOSPAM for the address to work). There’s no length rule, though I might split a very long piece into several parts over several shows. Also, if you tell me in your email about what time you want me to read your work, I’ll try to remember to read it then so you can be ready to hear it live, or so you can easily find it in the recording later.

I’m certain that the best way to learn to write is to write for an audience and sit in that audience and listen to a stranger reading what you wrote. You hear immediately what to change and how to express yourself better in your unique style. Try it and see.

This weblog is partly about my radio show and partly a place to post links to things that are worthwhile but that don’t necessarily translate well to radio. I find them mostly via the websites in the blogroll column to your right.

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*In 2015, in the fall, 105.1fm KMEC Ukiah joined the small but growing number of radio stations to use my show in real time by simply instructing their automation system to grab the stream. KMEC initially joined the show in progress at midnight and jumped off at 3am. On December 8, 2017 KMEC pushed the start time up, so now MOTA is on both KNYO and KMEC from 9am forward. Together they reach about 3/4 of Mendocino County.

[Edit: Mendocino Environment Center (MEC) got enough of their people into the hierarchy of KZYX, the countywide NPR station, and get everything they want from them them now, so they’ve simply pulled the plug out for the KMEC transmitter and shut off the Environment Center’s internet access and website and they don’t even answer email anymore. So scratch the above about KMEC, alas.]

If you have anything to do with a radio station small or large, and you’d like to use a portion or all of Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio on your station in real time– please let me know. There may be restrictions that need resolving, laws of physics to be bent. I’m sure we can work something out. It’s a trivial task for any modern radio station’s IT person to add my show to their automation. It merely requires the will to.