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The End of Savage Nation?

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TheRealOtherNeil

San Francisco's KNEW-AM has dropped Michael Savege (nee:Michael Alan Weiner). KNEW was his flagship station. According to the station website: "We have decided to go in a different philosophical and ideological direction, featuring more contemporary content and more local information. The Savage Nation does not fit into that vision."

This is most likely the beginning of the end for Savage. I am sure WSB has a young replacement lined up as a contingency.
 
Neil Millman said:
San Francisco's KNEW-AM has dropped Michael Savege (nee:Michael Alan Weiner). KNEW was his flagship station. According to the station website: "We have decided to go in a different philosophical and ideological direction, featuring more contemporary content and more local information. The Savage Nation does not fit into that vision."

This is most likely the beginning of the end for Savage. I am sure WSB has a young replacement lined up as a contingency.
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How many times has Dr. Laura been bounced around within a market and everybody talking about her impending doom.....and 17 years later she is still on the air "taking on the day."

Just as long as there are companies making money distributing Michael Savage, he will continue.
 
this may be stupid but was he the same "alan weiner" that ran radio newyork international on sw with brother stair back in the 90s?
 
Wow, was he not making money for that station or is this truly a philosophical dump? I'll be happy to see him off Atlanta radio. He's as bad as some of the crap on Air America.
 
Michael Wiener (Weiner?) is his real name not Alan.
If if he was bounced from a station in S.F. he's still syndie nationwide and has many affiliates. He will prob find another home and if not he prob has money to do it from his home studio (that is, if he doesn't have one already he
can get one built)
 
raccoonradio said:
Michael Wiener (Weiner?) is his real name not Alan.
If if he was bounced from a station in S.F. he's still syndie nationwide and has many affiliates. He will prob find another home and if not he prob has money to do it from his home studio (that is, if he doesn't have one already he
can get one built)
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KNEW-AM, Savage's home in San Francisco, is something like #28 in the ratings. Savage has a Sacramento affiliate on 650 that city grades SF in the daytime. He's on from 3-6PM so San Francisco listeners can still hear him loud and clear, except in December and January when they won't pick up the last hour of his show.

Savage will still do well across the U.S. I've heard him talk about retiring at some point soon, but until then, his sometimes over-the-top rhetoric will continue.
 
How funny. People are talking about this over here too? I used to be a fan of Savage Nation, but I'm not so sure anymore. L.A. is talking about him being dropped, and now I see it here too. I'm assuming there must be quite a few people seeing something about the show these days that make it..... well, not exactly everything it used to be. As a matter of fact, I pretty much only use A.M. radio for Coast to Coast AM now if they have a topic that interests me. To be honest, Savage seems to have "lost it" just a little these days, but much love to him for doing what he does and making it a huge success.
 
As long as there are hateful, racist people who want to hear their backward, stupid ideas reinforced and justified, there will still be a Micheal Savage/Wiener show on the radio.
 
Thanks for being so open minded and tolerate ... where's your talk show?

Live and let live as long as everyone sees it only your way, eh, fortmill?
 
Unlike Michael Savage, I believe Rush is right on point, and I like the fact that Rush doesn't think that there are people out to get him or put him in jail for talking...etc. and Rush is also not acting like he's the king/ruler of the general public....etc. where he is "going to take action" and tell everyone that in addition to Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, he's going to take action over the air and make a fourth party called The Savage or something like that. Michael does have some good points, but sometimes he tends to get into an emotional state where he acts like the entire world is against him and everything is going wrong and pissing him off, in addition to believing he has some microphone super power. I really don't know how to explain it, but I'm sure some of you may know what I'm talking about.

Rush on the other hand... just gets straight to the point. The only problem with Rush is that most people today are not capable of understanding logic and common sense talk, and believe that everything in the world goes (or should be determined by) what feels good to themselves right now, at this exact moment... but I guess whether or not people listen or "get it" when he talks doesn't matter as long as he's getting paid to do his job.

I'd say there was a time when Michael Savage was at his best, but although he's still pretty good, I believe his best times are now behind. In some ways, his program now sounds a bit dark, and like a movie, puts you in this world where it seems like everyone is out to catch and stop Michael Savage and his fans. Sometimes you have to sit back, snap your mind back into reality and remember - in reality, he's just a man at work, sitting in a studio with a computer nearby, talking on a mic. Not a dark planet with a dim lit sky in a city of dark buildings and bats flying around with evil people and things roaming the streets out to capture and kill Michael. ...Well, and now that I think of it, with posts and topics titled as this one is, I guess.... well, he probably has some reasoning to believe "the end is near".

As far as Dr Laura, I think she's kind of lost it a bit, too..... But there was a time I loved her a lot as well.
 
Tibbs2 said:
Thanks for being so open minded and tolerate ... where's your talk show?

Live and let live as long as everyone sees it only your way, eh, fortmill?
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Did I say anything about people not being entitled to their own views? Of course I don't expect everyone to have the same views I do. It's Micheal Wiener who gets so bent out of shape when people don't have the same outlook he does. And by the way, the word is TOLERANT, not tolerate.
 
I've listened a lot to Savage over the past few years - the good and the bad. A am troubled by some of his rhetoric.

Although the phrase "Hate Speech" has become a punch line in talk radio, to anyone who knows anything about history, it does have a real effect. When you reduce parts of society to being "vermin", you give permission to the gullible to kill the perceived "enemy". Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot...the list goes on. If those like Savage can't deal with rational discussion and wait for the next election, then in my opinion they threaten the republic. To quote Joseph Welch, "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
 
I would echo much of what KDM 7000 wrote, but to further elaborate, I think Savage is bitterly disappointed by the lack of support he's been given by other "conservative talkers" and by "conservative" television. His new book, dedicated to his fight to have his travel ban to Britain, has yet to be mentioned by any of them. He's become bitter, and his attacks on the ethics of them has really disturbed me and when he gets started, I have to turn him off. When we hear him talk about his dog, his walks through the streets of SF, his quest for real Chinese food, his sails through the Bay, we understand how he rose to prominence - I could listen to him for days. But the venom he's expressing these days makes the experience most unpleasant. As much as I'd really like to be a supporter, I do not appreciate his name calling and accusations of Fox News personalities.
 
NewsTalkJunkie said:
I would echo much of what KDM 7000 wrote, but to further elaborate, I think Savage is bitterly disappointed by the lack of support he's been given by other "conservative talkers" and by "conservative" television. His new book, dedicated to his fight to have his travel ban to Britain, has yet to be mentioned by any of them. He's become bitter, and his attacks on the ethics of them has really disturbed me and when he gets started, I have to turn him off. When we hear him talk about his dog, his walks through the streets of SF, his quest for real Chinese food, his sails through the Bay, we understand how he rose to prominence - I could listen to him for days. But the venom he's expressing these days makes the experience most unpleasant. As much as I'd really like to be a supporter, I do not appreciate his name calling and accusations of Fox News personalities.
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Being placed on a terrorist watchlist does not seem to me an action that brings out a person's politeness or genteel side.
 
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