Savage dropped by KNEW due to CC management being pressured by Rush&Hannity?

[LKellerIII]

Re: Savage dropped by KNEW due to CC management being pressured by Rush&Hannity?

The reason most of us believe that is because of the rage Savage has expressed during his time at CC/SF because savage accused Rush, Beck, Hannity, and Palin for being puppets of Murdoch.

Most of who?

And you are missing one key point of information: Any evidence that Rush, Beck, Hannity, Gov. Palin, or any other conservative media figure actually cares about Savage's rants, on-air or off-air.

Because as we all know, conservatism is a giant monolithic conspiracy. They all get together for meetings, only Savage is jealous because they don't invite him.

Seriously - Rush and Pallin don't work for Murdoch so it's ridiculous for Savage to call them Murdoch's puppets. If Murdoch has directly given instructions to Beck and Hannity (who do work for him), I'm sure it's "Get big ratings and make me money."

That's Murdoch's agenda. If Glenn Beck got higher ratings for spewing pea soup while his head spun around in a circle, Murdoch would want him to do that. Come to think of it, stay tuned - you may see that next week on the Glenn Beck Show.

 

[4 Towers]

Re: Savage dropped by KNEW due to CC management being pressured by Rush&Hannity?

Soooo...some you seem to be saying there's a right-wing conspiracy against Michael Savage.

Funny.

ya' never know because savage is a registered independent; rush/hannity love president bush while savage attacked him considerably

maybe bob brinker will disappear next LOL

 

[Geek-O-Rama]

Re: Savage dropped by KNEW due to CC management being pressured by Rush&Hannity?

Who would be a candidate to pick up Savage Nation in SF? Any FMs you think might be looking to go all talk?

 

[Michael Rivers Kramer]

Re: Savage dropped by KNEW due to CC management being pressured by Rush&Hannity?

Who would be a candidate to pick up Savage Nation in SF? Any FMs you think might be looking to go all talk?

None...

He's too extreme for the Bay Area if he isn't even considered strong enough for a third tier talk AM like KNEW. An FM station doing talk against KGO and KSFO would have to hire some of their talent away to be successful.

Get a good radio and listen to him on KSTE out of Sacramento while he's still on the air up there. IMO, it's only a matter of time before he'll say something worse and get himself kicked off of that station as well.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Re: Savage dropped by KNEW due to CC management being pressured by Rush&Hannity?

KTRB/860 would have been an automatic landing place until it went all-sports. Now, that's not even an option.

 

[Hunkey Snarkey]

Re: Savage dropped by KNEW due to CC management being pressured by Rush&Hannity?

Nice post Kramer. I listen to Savage, hes quite entertaining,, since 1994, he was the Talk of the town around here, he may have not made alot of freinds, but one thing for sure he trompled Bernie wards ratings in a short time, and is heard in more than 300 markets. Bernie is done. Im sure Mike will be on for a long time to come, how many more years till the overweight liberal gets out of the pen?????????? Savage always refered to Bernie as 'Mr Softee' If im sitting in traffic, and your not moving, on these antiquated freeways, and you tune into Savage, it makes my drive quite stimulating, the guy speaks the truth,,He was the best thing to happen to KSFO,, besides Melanie Morgan. Kenny in Concord,, and savages TOH intro is out of this world, the guy is great

 

[DavidKaye]

Re: Savage dropped by KNEW due to CC management being pressured by Rush&Hannity?

Nice post Kramer. I listen to Savage, hes quite entertaining,, since 1994, he was the Talk of the town around here, he may have not made alot of freinds, but one thing for sure he trompled Bernie wards ratings in a short time [....]

Apples and oranges. Savage was on during afternoon drive; Bernie Ward during late night. You can't compare them. Savage was the more entertaining of the two, as far as I'm concerned, but in talkradio I go for entertainment value, not politics.

What's unfortunate is that Michael Savage is now so full of himself that he's ceased being funny. That'll be the death knell to his program.

 

[SFStatic]

Re: Savage dropped by KNEW due to CC management being pressured by Rush&Hannity

What really hurt the show on KNEW was it has only been live 3-5p for the last 2 years. The third hour is filled with fake interviews his producer records. The listeners can tell, and went away. His 3pm hour was still the #1 hour on the station not that long ago.

 

[DyingMedium]

Re: Savage dropped by KNEW due to CC management being pressured by Rush&Hannity?

Certainly not all of Savage's listeners are right wing nut-jobs...But people I meet who tell me ( I don't ask ) they're Savage fans seem to believe every word the man has ever uttered.

While Savage certainly is in no danger of disappearing, the KNEW rejection shows exactly what happens to those who are unpleasant to work with when they are no longer bringing in the cash. I can't think of anyone more universally despised by those he works with and for...Very high-maintenance, disparaging, and downright insane. So, I don't think it was that tough of a call for CC/SF to cut him loose.

He went from being their flagship program to their boat anchor...

 

[4 Towers]

Re: Savage dropped by KNEW due to CC management being pressured by Rush&Hannity?

KTRB/860 would have been an automatic landing place until it went all-sports. Now, that's not even an option.

when did they go to all-sports, and why ?

860 could become a new home for all the recent Bay Area and Controversial California casualties, left and right: Savage, Collins, Karel, Michael Jackson (the talk host from Saul Levine's KGIL AM 1260), and what happened to Christine Craft and Enid Goldstein ?

 

[SFStatic]

Re: Savage dropped by KNEW due to CC management being pressured by Rush&Hannity

Savage won't do it and wouldn't have because they won't (and really can't considering their situation) pay him.

Regarding sports, they have had a consultant that initially pimped talk, then sports when the talk didn't get them past the high 40's in rank. It would have seemed that an unique format might have been better to try than coming in as the #6 talk station in the market. #3 or #4 sports station isn't a whole lot better.