If ever there was a case for an organization to feel underdemeciated it’s the Knytes-of-Anarchy. For all we do, getting any press ink, or TV media appreciation is near to impossible.
I was amazingly surprised that KTVB –7’ news department to actually respond to our posting on the subject of screwing the pooch of that Internet malware warning thing. But how come they will not respond to the things our club is doing championing the state of Idaho, from coast to coast? Or when we do a benefit for a fallen member? Do they realize that 70% of our membership are discharged as well as retired Marine and Navy Aviators? Do they not realize that our membership is much more than a bikers MC(Motorcycle-Club)? Does our states press even care?
Now in fairness I will say this and this directly impacts why our club is busting our humps to bring on board a TV station right here in Mini-Cassia.
When it comes to all Boise TV stations that run what I will call a sub-station booster sales office in Twin Falls, they just don’t cover the Mini Cassia area.
Likewise the only current station based in Twin Falls that does any real Magic Valley news coverage, over-looks the mini Cassia area. Now granted between both Minidoka and Cassia County the entire areas population is only at best 50,000 people. But we should count for something, don’t ya’ll think.
It takes a monumental occurrence to get any of the Boise , including KTVB to cover Burley or Rupert or anywhere in our areas news . Now its not just TV, the local press has their hand up as they feel they are too good, to cover anything that our organization is doing, not will do, not what we might do, but what we do every day, around the clock.
HazzardAyre came on board in 2009 , as the combination of all things Hazzard County and all things AyreWolf, aka Knytes-of-Anarchy / AyreWolvez. With nearly 1000 members just in Idaho, and increasing, our membership wanted to extend our abilities to serve the underserved . From helping the poor, to keeping those in rural Idaho informed through our radio station group, to our published printed version of HazzardAyre. And yet when we extend our Olive branch to local TV and print media, that branch is crushed under foot. Those 1000, members of ours, have business’ that would be more in tune with buying advertising etc, if just once the local media would just once get off their stuck up thrones and do a feature, even once of the club.
What kinds of news happens here that goes unreported?
A sweeping storm front came through Mini Cassia, causing both cable TV and Internet connections tied to Cable-One to go offline.
According to our sources that condition does not look to be repaired until Monday at the latest. Was this turn off the pre dawn of the Monday Malware scan by the Feds? If so did it is, why did it effect cable TV?
Be that as it may, and we’re not able to publish this at 02:44 Hours 07/08/12 , but why did the gurus at KTVB not inform us of what was going on.
Over the years I have maybe been to harsh on our local media press. But it’s the same game that was played even in our beginnings. Long b4 Hazzard got into the mix, when we started out as the only , and still only 4-H truck transportation club, in America, we couldn’t get any radio, TV, or print newspaper to give the club ink or air time. Not one. Yet in 1982 when our then parent organizations President, Mike Parkhurst , decided to call for a nationwide strike by all owner/operator independent OTR truckers, and the story got, hot I had phone calls coming to our home in Hazzard(Hagerman) 24/7 . When I gave two interviews the rest kept coming, but I gave them the ignore button.
The old notion of you scratch our backs we’ll scratch yours applies.
After the long term not being taken seriously, it was in 1976 through several acquisions that the original KDSL AM 1090/KTOW FM 89.1 went on the air licensed to the town of 125 called West-Point Idaho .
From then our broadcasting efforts grew and have been copied but never duplicated. It was the intelligence of two local broadcast owners that decided to give us the appreciation we deserved. Charley Tuma former owner/GM of KLIX 1310 b4 Clear Channel bought the station and KMTW FM again b4 Clear Channel’s purchase of the station, gave me an overnight gig, on both to put on a thing we called Maximum Overdrive. Maximum Overdrive was as they called it racy, so they killed the program, in 1980 , two years after both KDSL and KTOW became full power class A radio stations, Maximum Overdrive, became Dixie Diesel Radio and the rest as they say is history. We were and remain the voice on radio of the American trucker.
Confederate Star TV was created in 2005 in Bountiful Utah, by our Utah Charter. As a syndicated production company. The vehicle to deliver that content was a thing we called Southern Steele Media. Both survive today. However a TV station is harder to do than radio. With technology as it is today, a radio station can be put into a two room office facility , a TV station requires much more space, square footage wise. likewise TV station cp’ (Construction permits) and licenses are harder if at all attainable. However we are not done, its just finding the right place and waiting until the FCC lifts the license freeze. That said we are working to establish a IPTV or Internet streaming TV station. Sip OTA (over the air) all together and go over the Internet, until the FCC lifts the new station license freeze.
But it would be nice if just once the local TV stations in our state decided to get off their stuck up thrones and take a look at the Knytes-of-Anarchy.
Finally, you might wonder where the word underdemeciated came from. The word came from a Disney production called BedTime Stories. Adam Sandler was telling a bed time story to two kids in his care. He started saying under appreciated, but the 6 year old boy, named Patrick(hey go figure) said what do you mean underdemeciated? Sounded good to me.
Now when I post this Monday, we’ll see if KTVB and KMVT responds in kind to this edition .
Again though Aren’t YOU glad YOU have HazzardAyre and KDXB FM?
L8R Aviators
