Several weeks ago, his call screener up and quit in the middle of the program......You have any information on that?
Good God, wow..! Same old Savage, I guess, can't say I'm a bit surprised.
I don't have any details on that, but:
Mike's first radio gig was as a midnight fill-in host at KGO radio in San Francisco --he was just starting out so they gave him a super cr*ppy time slot.
Mike was filling in for a super liberal guy, so naturally his audience completely loathed Michael, which suited the management fine (they don't care whether the audience listens out of morbid revulsion or genuine affinity, so long as they listen).
Another one of the hosts there at KGO (and later KSFO, whose host booth was about 4 meters from that of KGO) was Jim Eason, a pretty laid-back, Southern guy who retired about 8 years ago to North Carolina: he had a wide following and his daughter started producing/opping for Mike and the SAME thing happened.
Mike really really beat-up on her, in spite of the working history Mike had with her father. Really made her into a human punching bag. Often for nothing.
Since Mike got syndicated and Jim did not I'm completely sure this falling out of theirs doesn't bother Mike one whit --Mike craves and respects wealth, influence and power and very little else.
Mike has LOTS of talent and blessings, but playing nice and fair is not one of them --he got this management style from his dictatorial father and it was later strongly intensified under his various professors at UC Berkeley.
What he did to Janet, his wife, and Jims daughter he has done to many others, and your story does not surprise me.
Mike CANNOT change this part of his personality, this late in life. I'm not even sure if he's trying, either.
Inwardly Mike would probably dispute very little of what I've typed.
Weiner craps where he would eat.