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Michael Savage Out at KNEW
BayNewser ^ | Sep 10, 2009 | Jason Turbow on

Posted on 09/10/2009 12:04:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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Michael Savage is OUT at KNEW.

1 posted on 09/10/2009 12:04:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Could it possibly - just maybe - be that Beck spends a lot less time talking about his nelly little dog and what wine he had with last night’s dinner?

Just a thought.


2 posted on 09/10/2009 12:05:40 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Don't threaten me with a good time.)
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When we lived in the Bay Area I used to try to listen to Michael Savage. However, he would get so worked up that my blood pressure would rise and I've wind up sick to my stomach.
3 posted on 09/10/2009 12:06:08 PM PDT by ninergold3 ("Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?" -Mark Lowry)
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I don’t understand this. Does he do a local show too? What does this mean?

losing Savage’s significant salary might also have been a factor.


4 posted on 09/10/2009 12:06:58 PM PDT by DManA
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Too many complaint calls and a spineless ownership is the reason. Libs are probably boycotting all of their sponsors etc. Can’t afford to get rid of Beck.


5 posted on 09/10/2009 12:07:09 PM PDT by albie
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To: Xenalyte

Is that where he caught rabies?


6 posted on 09/10/2009 12:07:22 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 232 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Xenalyte

IMO Savage is tiring of the radio schtick, he’s just going thru the motions.


7 posted on 09/10/2009 12:07:43 PM PDT by skeeter (Pterocarya fraxinifolia)
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To: Xenalyte

I think it’s deeper than that. Savage has lost his spark, his desire to do radio. He has made comments in recent weeks that the only reason he hasn’t already quit is so he has a bully pulpit to try to get himself off the UK’s no fly list.

He used to have such a “fire in the belly” that he made you want to listen to the meatball recipes and dog stories but now that his spark is gone, he doesn’t care to be interesting anymore.


8 posted on 09/10/2009 12:09:50 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (http://koreanforniancooking.blogspot.com/)
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To: skeeter
IMO Savage is tiring of the radio schtick, he’s just going thru the motions.

Yeah, my hubby would say that savage has been "calling into" his show for the past few years.

9 posted on 09/10/2009 12:10:33 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (http://koreanforniancooking.blogspot.com/)
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I can only imagine how much whining he'll do today.

The few days I've switched over to see what he's talking about, all I hear him do is whine like a little bitch that 'nobody loves him'. ..not even his fellow conservatives in the media and talk radio.

10 posted on 09/10/2009 12:11:56 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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John Scott is a McCain supporter who probably gets upset when he hears Savage. As far as "John and Ken" going over big during drive time in the Bay Area, don't think so. They are L.A. all the way.

KNEW will probably plummet in ratings after this since he was their biggest draw, and Wiener (Savage) will end up somewhere else, maybe back home at KSFO.

11 posted on 09/10/2009 12:12:16 PM PDT by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe! Now hand over your property)
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Savage is a sharp cookie but Levine has just smoked him in that time slot.


12 posted on 09/10/2009 12:12:46 PM PDT by jetson
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“headed in a new direction and a new mind set at this station.”

Sounds like Orwellian newspeak for “don’t want to piss off our new Marxists overlords”.


13 posted on 09/10/2009 12:12:56 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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Almost all of these guys start out local and move to larger markets or syndication as they build an audience. I’m pretty sure this was Savage’s home station. You would think they were getting a significant amount of the syndication fees as the originating station, but maybe not.


14 posted on 09/10/2009 12:15:02 PM PDT by sig226 (Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
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To: TexasCajun

He’ll say he wrote a few dozen books and what do they know, plus he went for a boat ride today or talked to a beggar.


15 posted on 09/10/2009 12:16:56 PM PDT by boomop1
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To: Tamar1973

Y’know, I think you’re right about that. I give him the occasional listen, since the only thing opposite him here in Houston is a financial call-in show that I don’t find very interesting, and Savage hasn’t had the gonna-go-boom factor he used to have.

I used to listen through what I didn’t much like because I knew it would eventually pay off. It doesn’t seem like that happens much anymore.

Too bad, because at his best he is genuinely entertaining.


16 posted on 09/10/2009 12:18:10 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Don't threaten me with a good time.)
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To: sig226
KSFO 560 was his home station. When he went nationwide he did two things:

His head got really big, and he started believing the he was the story.

He priced himself out of KSFO.

Then he went off the deep end...

17 posted on 09/10/2009 12:19:22 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 232 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: skeeter
IMO Savage is tiring of the radio schtick, he’s just going thru the motions.

I picked that up to.

It's only worth listening to about the first 45 minutes of his show. By then he runs out of steam and starts playing taped interviews.

18 posted on 09/10/2009 12:20:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: nickcarraway

So it begins.


19 posted on 09/10/2009 12:20:06 PM PDT by RC2 (Our Failure is Not an Option)
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To: Regulator

The funny thing about you saying John and Ken are “L.A. all the way,” is that I first heard them on a station in New Jersey in the early 90s before they went to L.A. It was a very NJ station.


20 posted on 09/10/2009 12:21:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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