Since Michael Savage admitted on-the-air that after one of his very animated political tirades, he went home and experienced a day or two of discomfort, his show has changed. He said that he needed to calm down, and didn't want to get sick thanks to his job. I notice that his tirades are muted. He also seems to spend more time on non-political topics... the kind that don't wind him up. One time he got rolling on a political topic and cut himself off saying, "I've got to calm down". He still says the same types of things, just not as loudly. Will these developments affect his show positively or negatively?
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Notice the mellowing of Savage?
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Silkie said:
What are you talking about? I responded with a totally generic and hypothetical response. That's what "As with all gimmicks" means. Johnbasalla said Savage was doing something different. I took johnbasalla at his word. If he says Savage is doing something different, I won't dispute him. I also won't waste any time listening to Savage to verify if johnbasalla is accurate or correct. I don't need to hear what new gimmick Savage might be trying to observe that trials or tests of new gimmicks are almost always evaluated to see if they work or not.
That's why I compared that observation of mine to the "news" that water is wet. That was sarcasm used to point out that what I said about testing gimmicks was so obvious it didn't really need to be said as everyone knew it, just as everyone should have realized that anything Savage was doing differently was a gimmick.
Usually I would agree with Talk-Dude that this smacked of the testing of a new gimmic, however just as Mr. T. Dude took me at my word, I take Michael Savage at his word that he really was feeling a bit queezy. He mentioned light-headedness and a couple of other symptoms. One of the reasons I believe he was telling the truth is based on the age-old question ... Why mess with success? If his show was losing significant and measurable amounts listenership and affiliates, and he was no longer one of the Top 10 radio talkers in the nation, then the testing of new gimmicks would be in order. Given that his viewpoints haven't changed, I would think that he'd like to go on one of his tirades in order to stick it to the "liberal vermin of San Fransicko, the ACLU...etc... but he thinks better of it due to the illness factor. I rather miss the animated tirades, although there were times when I got tired of the yelling and just shut it off. I truly believe he doesn't do it like even in the recent past because he had a physical reaction to one or two of them. For what it's worth, he's just better at it then Mark Levin.
All the times I've heard him the past few months [I think it's been during the same 3rd show hour most of the time], he's been letting the interviewee go on and on [they're obviously reading from something] and he'll only interject brief sayings like "You don't say?!" or "Unbelievable!" without any commentary. The comments don't even sound real, they sound canned.
It's like listening to someone filling time.
It's like listening to someone filling time.
quadraphonic said:
Those interviews are canned. Might as well be an ad for Tahiti Village.
The third hour of Savage is pre-produced. Savage's producer records an interview with that hour's guest, and it's spliced in with Savage's recorded bits.
I figured they had to be canned.
I guess two hours is easier to do than three hours. Kind of like some syndicated morning shows reusing stuff and doing "Best Ofs" and even some that only show up three or four days a week.
I guess two hours is easier to do than three hours. Kind of like some syndicated morning shows reusing stuff and doing "Best Ofs" and even some that only show up three or four days a week.
Savage is adrift in many ways. He has alluded several times to having health problems in the past few years.
For about a week, he had the "plan" to do a theme show each day of the week - literature, nutrition, finance, Religion.... that idea lasted about a week. He seems to have decided his audience is too ignorant and uneducated to understand the sophisticated topics he wants to do - it is frequent on air complaint.
For being the "#3 show on radio, maybe even higher", it mystifies me how often he says "Well, it looks like nobody wants to talk about that - the phone lines are empty". Why do people in the business think that might be - that a nationally syndicated live radio show with hundreds of affiliates can't scare up a single caller to put on the air?
For about a week, he had the "plan" to do a theme show each day of the week - literature, nutrition, finance, Religion.... that idea lasted about a week. He seems to have decided his audience is too ignorant and uneducated to understand the sophisticated topics he wants to do - it is frequent on air complaint.
For being the "#3 show on radio, maybe even higher", it mystifies me how often he says "Well, it looks like nobody wants to talk about that - the phone lines are empty". Why do people in the business think that might be - that a nationally syndicated live radio show with hundreds of affiliates can't scare up a single caller to put on the air?
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