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How does he stay on top?

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johnbasalla

More and more, I'm surprised at how popular Michael Savage is. Top 5 national talk show host. Here's an example of why.

This past week on Wednesday or Thursday, in the first two hours, he had a segment about the Egyptian violence affair. This included some callers.
That segment was re-run during the first half of the third hour on Friday night. Any regular listener is going to remember those comments and conversations from just a day or two ago. I'm wondering if this was a case of Savage doing something purely local for his home market that forced them to do this for (or to!) the syndicated audience. Then, as usual, during the second half of the third hour, the show was handed over to some other commentator who blathered on and on while Michael said precious few words. These often sound "canned". These are good formulas for success?!!
 
Savage hasn't been in the best of health either lately, so he uses these canned interviews to fill time.

These canned interviews sound so amateurish, it obvious that they were prerecorded. Sometimes he has a guest musical host.
 
The "canned" interview during the second half hour of his Friday show was not generic sounding. It was about radical Islam and the Egyptian crisis, so it was timely. Michael had more to say during it then on other interview segments. He had specific questions. It may have been pre-recorded, but he clearly was there when it was done because the guest responded directly to the question, and it didn't sound like a case of recording questions to edit into an already pre-recorded monolouge.
 
Michael Savage is indeed without a home market affiliate.

His most recent station there was KTRB/860, a new SF move-in (it used to be in Modesto) which has not been sold - yet - but is now being operated under a bankruptcy trustee. When that happened, the station pulled Savage.

He has quite a history in the market...he came to national prominence as a local host on ABC-now-Citadel's conservative talker KSFO/560, and then moved to Clear Channel's KNEW/910 with a new, local (separate from TRN) contract. It was still his regular TRN show airing on both KNEW and KTRB, they just paid him separately to move the show.

As of now, as mentioned, Clear Channel Sacramento talker KSTE/650 is the only way to hear him in the Bay Area. The station's 21.4 kW day signal covers a pretty large chunk of the Bay Area, but in the winter, the 920 watt directional night signal is just a rumor in the SF market.

And that means the Bay Area can't hear about the last hour or so of the show this time of year...
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
As of now, as mentioned, Clear Channel Sacramento talker KSTE/650 is the only way to hear him in the Bay Area. The station's 21.4 kW day signal covers a pretty large chunk of the Bay Area, but in the winter, the 920 watt directional night signal is just a rumor in the SF market.

And that means the Bay Area can't hear about the last hour or so of the show this time of year...
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Ahem! Anybody with a computer with Internet access or a smartphone with a data plan in the Bay Area can still hear Dr. Weiner.
 
OK, well, KSTE is the only way to hear "The Savage Nation" ON THE RADIO in the Bay Area, give or take another distant affiliate I don't know about. :D
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
OK, well, KSTE is the only way to hear "The Savage Nation" ON THE RADIO in the Bay Area, give or take another distant affiliate I don't know about. :D
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Not that I can tell. And he's not on satellite radio either.
 
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