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Rate the Michael Savage Show on WHAM

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John C

At the risk of starting a thread that will eventually be told to take it outside those of you who are so inclined can go to WHAM1180.com and vote on how you feel about the Michael Savage show. So far those who love it are far out in front. :eek: I'm not sure how the previous polls (Rush, Lonsberry, etc.) turned out but I doubt it will change anything. If they wanted a more interesting poll I would be curious to see how Brah Weese is thought of...
 
Ah, another example of what is known as "self-selection"...

Almost like there being a poll on, say, Bruce Springsteen's* website asking if you like him or not...

*Arbitrarily selected as one of his songs came up on my iTunes while I was responding.
 
Brah Blahs?

Speaking of Wease, I'm surprised at how little response to his "debut" appeared in the D&C forums. He got more ink from the paper than he got in the forums.

I found one Wease thread, and Wease was barely a topic in the discussion. It's sure a far cry from the spirited discussion that ensued when he went off the air. That one was more anti-Wease than pro-Wease. It makes you wonder what his real impact will be.
 
Sorry to say but I do not listen to WHAM between the hours of eight pm and five am. Nothing but innate whining, vile rhetoric, and kooky conspiracy theories. Too bad they don't have a local night host.

Wease and his non-comeback? I find it funny that the D&C thread about him turned into a typical mindless drivel of people flamethrowing with Z-grade political talking points.
 
Re: Brah Blahs?

SirRoxalot said:
Speaking of Wease, I'm surprised at how little response to his "debut" appeared in the D&C forums. He got more ink from the paper than he got in the forums.

I found one Wease thread, and Wease was barely a topic in the discussion. It's sure a far cry from the spirited discussion that ensued when he went off the air. That one was more anti-Wease than pro-Wease. It makes you wonder what his real impact will be.
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It doesn't surprise me. Despite the print and TV media coverage of the return of Wease, like it was the second coming of radio in Rochester, there hasn't been a peep mentioned about the guy since he returned to the airwaves. Perhaps that's because despite the few die-hard fans he has, the majority of listeners have their radio dials tuned to another station besides the Fox.
I listened to Wease the first week he returned and all I heard was the same old stuff he talked about when he was on WCMF. He's had his day and now it's over with.
Eventually Clear Channel executives are going to realize they spent a lot of money for nothing.

As for Michael Savage; If I want to hear a bigot, I can listen to recordings of Adolph Hitler.
 
Do you think that WHAM has the 'nads to ask what people think of their HD system? Or, would any of their listeners know what HD is?
 
JohnW said:
Do you think that WHAM has the 'nads to ask what people think of their HD system? Or, would any of their listeners know what HD is?
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I highly doubt most of their listeners know what HD is. There are so many other questions the station could ask their listeners that would give management a better idea of what the listening public wants.
 
WHAM's website caters to its fans...and it is destined to get predominantly positive feedback for everything and everyone it airs. A poll of an essentially self-selected sample won't tell us, or the station, anything worthwhile if they're actually trying to use it as a sincere solicitation of feedback on a show they're concerned about. If they ARE wondering how Savage is playing, and want real feedback from potential target listeners and not just committed fans, they'd be better off commissioning a survey company to do either a blind phone poll or setting up focus groups.

However, I think they're smart enough to know that, and they may just be using the poll as a gesture to bolster fan morale and promote the program.

As to Savage, he's successful in red-state markets that go for red-meat talk, but in the blue states he's not drawing demos or advertisers in a manner that will set the world on fire, to say the least. And it's hard to imagine how anyone takes him seriously. He's not like the majority of hosts who are essentially themselves, or only a slightly accentuated version of their core selves, while they're on the air. He plays a character called Michael Savage who rants and raves to excite his core audience of angry aging white guys. How much that character has in common with the real-life, off-mike Michael Weiner is anyone's guess, although if there's a LOT of overlap between the air persona and the off-mike personality, God help him. Somehow I doubt it.

There are other guys in talk radio besides him who are also actors playing a self-created and self-scripted role, just as there are those (far greater in number) who are relaxed and secure in their own skin, playing no role but themselves, and let you know who they really are while they're on the air.

I think we all know which hosts among all those we hear, fit in which category.
 
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