Savage ping!
I dont know the details but I bet I like the ruling.
Mike walked us listeners through it on the air yesterday. Very complicated. I would have benefited from a good flow chart. Mike seems to thrive off of these extended ground wars with representatives of the bureaucracy.
It must have really chapped the ass of the 9th to rule for Savage :-)
This was a landmark case. Many talk radio talent will benefit from
this case.
Good!!
Let’s hope that Mike Savage never sues Mark Steyn, it might create a black hole or something.
Go Savage!
So Savage was promised something in the event they dismissed him, and they welshed?
Way to go, Michael!
I’m not a Savage fan at all, but I’m glad for this ruling. (I can only handle about three hours a year of his show, I’m put off by his repetitiveness and his coarse disrespect for callers he disagrees with.)
My vague understanding of the case is that he had offers from other networks for more money or better time slots, but Talk Radio Network wouldn’t match one or another of the particulars. Wasn’t he off the air for a while because of his protest?
I like the analogy with the Free Agency ruling in the Curt Flood case. The conventional wisdom was that free agency would destroy the game as players would flit from team to team and the fans would lose interest, and the players would be out of work. Instead, the greatest boom in baseball revenues occurred.
Talk radio is merging with podcasts, though, and I have no idea how they’re making money on the podcasts I listen to. Everything is morphing faster than I can keep up.
I’ve been listening to Savage more and more over the last few months. If given a choice to listen to any show now, Savage might be my first over Rush, Mark and Hannity (have to admit Hannity has gotten a little boring and tired.) Mark tries to say Savage only talks about meatballs. He wishes.
IIRC a lot of listeners share in the good news.. those who contributed to a defense fund for Dr. Savage.