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Michael Savage is the second most-listened-to talk radio host in America, on virtually every major market outlet ...that is, except SF.
I asked Savage outright if he's been blackballed.
OF COURSE. I BUILT KNEW.AS A TALK STATION. ONE AD CZAR IS BLOCKING MY
RETURN-STRICTLY FOR POLITICAL REASONS. MY SHOW WAS GROSSING SEVERAL MILLION
DOLLARS A YEAR ON KNEW. THIS LUNATIC IS COSTING CLEAR CHANNEL A FORTUNE BY
TERRORIZING MANAGEMENT. CLEAR CHANNEL SHOULD FIRE THIS AD IDIOT. I AM HEARD ON
OVER 300 STATIONS ACROSS THE U.S.. MY SHOW IS THE #2 SHOW ON THE
INTERNET!." YOU CAN QUOTE ME.
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Clear Channel built a sweet studio for Savage (at his request) in their facility at 340 Townsend. He never used it.
ReplyDeleteThats not true..there is NO BLACKBALLING OF THE RIGHT WING. If Cumulus doesn't want him on KGO or KSFO,its because Savage is known for biting the hand that feeds him. And Savage while living here-says he hates the bay area. Well,the people. He likes the bay for sailing and the Mercedes dealerships to fix his fleet.
ReplyDeleteanyone know of any sites that have his shows available for download? KNEW used to do that when he was on their station
ReplyDeleteSavage claims his show grossed several million dollars a year on KNEW?? Really?? Show your figures Michael.
ReplyDeleteDoes Savage really think Clear Channel corporate bosses would pass on "several million dollars a year" (underachiever or not) just because some Ad Czar didn't like his politics? They'd fire that person before they'd walk on the revenue.
DeleteWaaaah Waaaah Waaaah.
ReplyDeleteSo who is this all-powerful "ad czar" who apparently controls every radio station in the Bay Area?
Anybody else notice that Ross Mirkarimi's wife's lawyers assistant- a woman- looks exactly like Ross?..she has the same hair do,color,glasses and like Ross never seems to smile. She wears suits too.
ReplyDeletewhoo-got that off my chest!
the sheriff might be an idiot but his old lady is fine looking, same thing with the supervisor broad that resigned in alameda county . plus the supervisor broad is off the hook, straight up freak gotta love it. local democratic women are hot, and they have some screws loose too.
ReplyDeleteYeah that Pelosi is one hot mama. Plus, she has enough loose screws to fill a Home Depot.
DeleteSavage is a fucking douchebag. "And you can quote me!"
ReplyDeleteWhile Savage is very creative and talented, he's also got an incendiary personality that puts a lot of people off. He's also reportedly very difficult to work with as he's driven away producers and bullied people around him who are trying to make his show
ReplyDeletebetter.
I have no sympathy for the guy at all. Believe me however, he's not being 'blackballed' by anyone, he's simply got a bad reputation and management types don't want to have to deal with a prima donna who's mercurial and unpredictable mood swings make for a
difficult working relationship.
The guy should grow up and stop his constant belly-gazing. He's not that unusual in talk radio however, as there are a lot of dysfunctional, unhappy characters who inhabit the airwaves these days, and Michael Savage is just one of them.
I don't understand why Rich has such a hard-on for Savage.
ReplyDeleteHe's a complete dickhead, terrible to work with and the headaches are simply not worth the meager ad revenues from food insurance companies, gold hucksters, etc.
I would be more supportive of Savage airing in the Bay Area if he still was doing a full three hour live show. His third hour is prerecorded with interviews and ”best of” segments. He has been doing only two hour live shows for years now. On top of that he takes a lot of time off.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Savage was in NY for a week two weeks ago. He came back last week and was off again today. The annoying lunatic hack Jeff Kuhner was filling in. He is on the same level with the NY comedian on KGOne. Why would any sane station put up with Savage who is turning into the modern day Johnny Carson with so much vacation time?
DeleteExactly. Savage doesn't get it. If he wants to be cleared live in the bay area he needs to do the entire three hour show live everyday. Enuf of this shit of patching together "Best of.." shows and pre-taped interviews for the third hour. When my station aired MS I used to complain to the affiliate rep at TRN (to no avail) that Savage was cutting his throat (and mine). The 5pm hour is the drive home that's where we get the pm drive listening bump. Instead, with MS, the audience had gotten conditioned to him taking the third hour off and filling it with crappy suck-up fill-in's ("Oh, it's such an honor to be here for the wonderful Michael Savage. Michael thank you for this honor..." Bleech!) Enough already! Why would anyone in the PT time zone carry that crap during the biggest hour in PM drive? Stations are better off without him. He cooked his own goose and now he complains about the meal. Piss off.
DeleteSavage can be entertaining. But it's hardly worth it. He's a miserable human being, impossible to work with, full of hot air and his own false bravado and he doesn't generate the kind of money he says. As a cost/benefit analysis, he's just not worth it. Get over it, Rich.
ReplyDeleteWho cares? Michael Savage is an idiot. Because he makes money for himself and radio stations doesn't change that...
ReplyDeleteFuck Michael Savage -- such a worthless sack of shit.
ReplyDeleteMichael Savage quotes which will far outlive him:
ReplyDelete"Liberalism is a mental disorder."
"What is a Country? Borders, Language, Culture."
"Liberalism is ... a *very serious* mental disorder."
Savage is not entertaining or talented. A bigoted blowhard. He's the idiot and terrorist.
ReplyDeleteDoctor Weiner burns many bridges and always has someone to blame other than himself(anyone recall his "Go choke on a sausage" routine to someone he thought was gay?)...classic narcissist.
ReplyDeleteSavage is Ann COulter in drag. You never have mentioned Coulter who I always thought was abused as a little girl. That anger,the lack of a relationship that has led to marriage,childless, and she seems to be promiscuous. For such a conservative woman she likes very revealing dresses. Very short skirts with plunging necklines. A classic case of PTSD.
ReplyDeleteYeah, all of these conservative talk show hosts are dysfunctional, unhappy people. I think that's why they all migrated to the media, because they felt they could 'find a voice there.'
ReplyDeleteIt's very sad to have to wade through some of their tripe and treacle. I heard Anne Coulter say once that Joe McCarthy was a hero for creating the 'blacklists' of the 1950s that outed all of the suppoesed 'Communists and fellow travelers.' What a sicko!
B.S. KNEW never grossed several million dollars, all shows combined.
ReplyDeleteFor the record, I am a conservative, but have grown tired of Savage's show. He repeats himself ad nauseum "I've written over 25 books and have real PHD", and he never stops retelling his childhood stories (I think he made up most of these stories). These days he only shows up to work half the time. Good thing for his producers, because he always is lambasting them on air if they don't have a particular song or sound bite immediately ready.
ReplyDeleteHis show started to decline in 2009 when he was "banned in Britain" and this obsession was heard on a daily basis (he even appealed to Hilary Clinton to get him off the banned list). His show now has regressed into reading a few stories from Drudgereport.com, talking about food, his poodle teddy, the big boats, the collecter cars, and his health problems. He regulary blast other conservative hosts, but they are too smart to take the bait and just ignore him, futher fuelling his dislike of them. Unfortunately some of his sycophant callers still address him as "Doctor Savage" even though his knowledge of virtually everything, especially history, is highly suspect. Some of his persona is an act, knowing the entertainer in him has to keep his audience and ratings-remember his idol was once Lenny Bruce. He should retire, but he has such a big ego he needs an attention outlet from somewhere.