I think the feud with Jim Eason had to do with a dispute Savage was having with a relative of Eason's (daughter?) at KSFO. But I do remember the dispute.
Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan ruled the morning -- I remember how much fun it was for them to invite the local newsrag on to present them personally with the acknowledgement published by the newspaper's own polls.
Do you recall the time Spencer Hughes (Sat and Sun back then) scheduled Pat Buchanan in-studio for a Saturday show? Savage demanded that management let him (Savage) have a Saturday special to do the interview. He got it. I don't recall that Savage mentioned Hughes. I do recall Buchanan saying later that he thought he was going to be up against a San Francisco hippie when he met Savage the first time.
I believe Hughes just got the time opposite Limbaugh now that Huckabee bombed. I was hoping that Metcalf would get it.
I recalled all that when I read this on a Savage Nation thread earlier this month.
Going to tune into iheart KSFO a bit early, yesterday I was treated to a bit of off air banter between savage and a producer with savage bitchign about how the previous host had called savage a “old firend” and savage complaining that he was not a firend and the previous host had implied that savage was the reason that host has his slot . . . It was kinda interesting to hear (see) how the sausage is nmade so to speak.
In general the hosts kept their comments about Savage off air back in the 1990s. Not so Savage but usually nothing like nowadays. In those days KSFO did not allow "best of" shows. And Barbara Simpson made the mistake of saying that she was filling in for Savage while he was on vacation that day. That infuriated Savage and the next day he lit into her personally something terrible while screaming that it was not a vacation.
When Dr. Laura came on at noon, I would usually switch to KGO to listen to Pete Wilson's show. He was very knowledgable about the news (being an evening TV anchor), and was only slightly left of center.
I recall for awhile there was a local Saturday morning tech talk show, where people would call in about their computer problems. I think that was back at the height of the dot com bubble, when desktop pc's was being revolutionized. It was always entertaining to hear about people's computer problems, and to hear about the latest gadgets coming out of Silicon Valley.
I also remember listening at night to Ken Hamblin's show, The Black Avenger, when it was cool to be a black conservative. No, wait... it was never cool to be a black conservative.
-PJ
Petty, so petty, and this time I don’t mean Tom Petty.
This reminds me of a time a year or so ago when Greg Gutfeld had come out with a book around the same time as one of Savages. The books were reviewed together, mostly favorably in some (I think mainstream) publication. Naturally Savage wanted to read it, but he would t mention Guttfelds name or the name of his book. It seemed to me that most hosts would have gone ahead and mentioned it.