I guess the reason WABC does not broadcast the third hour is that Savage is not going live, I can’t believe he is still doing canned third hours.
Most days the third hour is partly canned, some days its not, there’s no way of knowing what you’re getting. But a lot of hosts—Lars Larson, Laura Ingraham, John Bachelor, Larry Elder, etc. have only 1or 2 hours of 3 or 4 hour shows broadcast in some markets, but they don’t use it as an excuse to do something like that in the last hour. He’s been doing this for years and it’s one of people’s biggest complaints about him.
I have company tonight and its somebody who despises all talk radio, so won’t be tempted to tune in.
I have started a fairly lively thread discussing the Levin-Savage thread on coastgab(or Bellgab, whichever you want to call it). They have threads dealing with other radio programming.