Michael Savage

[NewsTalkJunkie]

I heard Alan Hunt on WSB tonight announcing he'll begin a new, weeknight show starting after Labor Day that'll run from 9 to midnight. Does that mean WSB is bouncing the lovely Michael Savage? Just when a fabulous article about him has been written in The New Yorker? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[Christopher]

Hunt is launching a show on weeknights, but WSB is not picking it up at this time. He will remain on weekends there while doing the weeknight show on various stations around the country. His weekend show is already syndicated.

 

[Silkie]

NewsTalkJunkie, I remember years ago seeing Ross Perot in an interview on C-Span. He related how he walked through customs with a British antiquity as he left England. When the Customs official asked what it was, he answered, "The original Magna Carta". They let him through; thus, he left their country with their Constitution, for which they took [stimulus] money.

Like you, I love the stories about Teddy, but also his stories about growing up - I can relate to them, and they are good lessons for people today, many of whom have no clue whatsoever. I think that when he gets edgy it is because he does not wish to see anyone abscond with our Constitution and its Bill of Rights. When tyrants tell us they are coming, normal Americans jump on it.

 

[PDK772]

They should replace Savage with Hunt. I am a conservative guy, but Savage is not particularly insightful or helpful. Nor is he live.

 

[talkshowfreak]

I believe Michael Savage is brilliant. When WSB begins Alan Hunt on a nightly basis, they will lose this listener.

 

[board_manager]

Some posts have been relocated to Take It Outside

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=150125.msg1265896#msg1265896

 

[KyDXIn]

Savage was taken off 50kw WHAS in Louisville when his contract expired. His show now appears on a lower powered mono FM, WLRS. The story was spun that the FM wanted his show and it was "taken away" from the bigger station. I'm not sure if that was the case. It was replaced with Michael Levin.

For nearly 50 years WHAS had a local talk show in the evenings. This was removed in a cost-cutting move in 2007 when Savage was added from 9pm to midnight. The show's host, Joe Elliott, still does a Sunday morning show on that station, and most of the callers to that show tell him "we miss you". I'm not sure any tape-delayed national show will do any good in the place of a local show. Elliott has created a website where he still does interviews at www.joeelliottradio.com. He is really a talented radio host and like so many in the radio industry, deserves better treatment than this.

 

[fortt3]

Local talk in the evenings-- that's what WSB needed at 7 PM.

Even though I agree with Herman Cain on most points, his focus away from local issues, repeatedly using the same phrases night to night, turns me off.

There's nothing new that can be said about the National healthcare bill that hasn't been said over and over for the the last four weeks.

Can somebody tell me where there is any talk about transportation, Atlanta crime, or the local impact of the judge ruling we can't use Lanier water for drinking in 3 years?

And HC always starts the show the EXACT same way, so I make sure to keep it off so I don't have to hear "And if you're still driving out there... blah, blah ... there are some <screaming>NUTS</Screaming> on the road ... ". The guy's been on for what, a year and a half??, and he starts the show the same way every night? Sheesh.

And by the way, I realize I don't hear the 2nd or 3rd hour. If he does "get local" then, I'm not aware of it.

 

[MisterDaisy]

Savage was taken off 50kw WHAS in Louisville when his contract expired. His show now appears on a lower powered mono FM, WLRS. The story was spun that the FM wanted his show and it was "taken away" from the bigger station. I'm not sure if that was the case. It was replaced with Michael Levin.

For nearly 50 years WHAS had a local talk show in the evenings. This was removed in a cost-cutting move in 2007 when Savage was added from 9pm to midnight. The show's host, Joe Elliott, still does a Sunday morning show on that station, and most of the callers to that show tell him "we miss you". I'm not sure any tape-delayed national show will do any good in the place of a local show. Elliott has created a website where he still does interviews at www.joeelliottradio.com. He is really a talented radio host and like so many in the radio industry, deserves better treatment than this.

Sadly, I find Savage to be more listenable than Levin.

With regards to Joe Elliott, I do recall listening to him every night as a kid in Atlanta, amazed by my ability to pick up WHAS hundreds of miles away. I was rather sad to read a few years back that he lost his evening slot.

 

[OgOgglby]

After listening to Savage since he went on night at WSB, I think he can...on the same night...do some of the best talk radio I've ever heard and then some of the most idiotic. He has no consistency in his logic, even though he prides himself as being smarter than any other host.

 

[KyDXIn]

Savage was taken off 50kw WHAS in Louisville when his contract expired. His show now appears on a lower powered mono FM, WLRS. The story was spun that the FM wanted his show and it was "taken away" from the bigger station. I'm not sure if that was the case. It was replaced with Michael Levin.

For nearly 50 years WHAS had a local talk show in the evenings. This was removed in a cost-cutting move in 2007 when Savage was added from 9pm to midnight. The show's host, Joe Elliott, still does a Sunday morning show on that station, and most of the callers to that show tell him "we miss you". I'm not sure any tape-delayed national show will do any good in the place of a local show. Elliott has created a website where he still does interviews at www.joeelliottradio.com. He is really a talented radio host and like so many in the radio industry, deserves better treatment than this.

Sadly, I find Savage to be more listenable than Levin.

With regards to Joe Elliott, I do recall listening to him every night as a kid in Atlanta, amazed by my ability to pick up WHAS hundreds of miles away. I was rather sad to read a few years back that he lost his evening slot.

I'm amazed to say this, but I tend to agree with you about Savage, but its like comparing manure to compost. Both stink!

I'm so glad you had the chance to listen to Elliott and hope you enjoyed his program. Part of the reasoning to removed him was the fact that no one listened outside of the Louisville market. Though he covered some local issues, I found that he covered national issues in a sane thought-provoking manner. Many shows today are screamfests.

 

[StevenCee]

After listening to Savage since he went on night at WSB, I think he can...on the same night...do some of the best talk radio I've ever heard and then some of the most idiotic. He has no consistency in his logic, even though he prides himself as being smarter than any other host.

I agree completely, he seems to embody better, what Boortz claims, that he's "turned a personality disorder into a career". I've heard him do an hour, sometimes even two of brilliant insights, only to hear him then speak irrational, over-the-top nonsense &/or hyperbolic vitriol. However, that's why I can listen to him more than most conservatives, since he is not about talking points, shoots from the hip, and isn't concerned with how "popular" his utterances will be....

 

[jabba17]

After listening to Savage since he went on night at WSB, I think he can...on the same night...do some of the best talk radio I've ever heard and then some of the most idiotic. He has no consistency in his logic, even though he prides himself as being smarter than any other host.

I agree completely, he seems to embody better, what Boortz claims, that he's "turned a personality disorder into a career". I've heard him do an hour, sometimes even two of brilliant insights, only to hear him then speak irrational, over-the-top nonsense &/or hyperbolic vitriol. However, that's why I can listen to him more than most conservatives, since he is not about talking points, shoots from the hip, and isn't concerned with how "popular" his utterances will be....

I agree. Savage can give you a brilliant insight one moment, and the next he'll go off like a rabid dog and spout off some truly hateful and mean (in the literal sense, not the liberal sense) stuff. One moment he sounds like the smartest guy on the dial, the next he makes Kook To Kook AM sound sane. But--at least it's not the same old stuff being passed around by the usual conservative talk gang.

 

[Silkie]

After listening to Savage since he went on night at WSB, I think he can...on the same night...do some of the best talk radio I've ever heard and then some of the most idiotic. He has no consistency in his logic, even though he prides himself as being smarter than any other host.

I can follow his logic okay. Seems consistent enough to me.

 

[KyDXIn]

Savage was taken off 50kw WHAS in Louisville when his contract expired. His show now appears on a lower powered mono FM, WLRS. The story was spun that the FM wanted his show and it was "taken away" from the bigger station. I'm not sure if that was the case. It was replaced with Michael Levin.

For nearly 50 years WHAS had a local talk show in the evenings. This was removed in a cost-cutting move in 2007 when Savage was added from 9pm to midnight. The show's host, Joe Elliott, still does a Sunday morning show on that station, and most of the callers to that show tell him "we miss you". I'm not sure any tape-delayed national show will do any good in the place of a local show. Elliott has created a website where he still does interviews at www.joeelliottradio.com. He is really a talented radio host and like so many in the radio industry, deserves better treatment than this.

Sadly, I find Savage to be more listenable than Levin.

With regards to Joe Elliott, I do recall listening to him every night as a kid in Atlanta, amazed by my ability to pick up WHAS hundreds of miles away. I was rather sad to read a few years back that he lost his evening slot.

Here is some more information that you might find interesting. Did you know that Joe was blind? He seldom mentioned it on air, but I have seen video clips of him in action in the studio, and he is truly amazing. If there was ever a nearly-perfect radio talk show, it was Joe Elliott's. He was once told that "he would never work in radio", and he decided that he was going to prove that college professor wrong. And he did so for 14 years, until the budget-cutters came on the scene, and like in Atlanta, put on syndicated junk, instead of local programming.

http://leoweekly.com/news-features/major-stories/features/loss-joe-elliott’s-show-insult-all-us
http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?s=7430524

 

[onetake]

Savage is great entertainment even on days when he's "out there." In a world where so many talk shows are just repeating themselves he's different. But Hunt? Dull Dull Dull. Not only does he have the ability to beat a topic to death he's just dull, lifeless and uninteresting. He might have worked in a church pulpit one day a week but isn't ready for radio everyday even though in his mind he's the answer to every question nobody is asking. Let me bet, his first night will be 3 hours of "what's wrong with you if you can't forgive Michael Vick."
Congratulations to Pete Spriggs for sparing us Hunt. Rick and Bubba one day a week is pain enough.