Good riddance. Kook.
Posted on 10/02/2020 3:04:01 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Westwood One syndicated talker Michael Savage has announced he will end his radio show at the end of the year, but continue hosting his daily podcast.
The 78 year old Savage told listeners to his podcast today, “Come January, you’re only going to hear me on my podcast. You will not hear me on this radio station anymore as of January.” He later added, ““I cannot give you the reasons. I am constrained for legal reasons. You will no longer hear Michael Savage on radio anywhere in America.”
Savage began his radio career on 810 KGO San Francisco as a fill-in host in 1994. The following year he moved to afternoons on 560 KSFO, which would be syndicated by Talk Radio Network in 1999. He would move the show to Cumulus Media in 2012, while changing live timeslots from 6-9pm eastern to 3-6pm in January 2014. At the start of 2019 he switched to a one hour per day radio show followed by one hour podcast. Westwood One will continue to distribute the Michael Savage Podcast.
Got to remember that has been good for long commentary.
Correction: While listening to Rush, which I am doing, he IS GOOD for long winded commentary.
Good riddance. Kook.
He has a radio show?
My impression is that apps like Cashbox are typically used on shows that have already been recorded, not on live shows. They can take a show that was recorded live during the week, then replay it on the weekend after having given it the Cashbox treatment. It’ll have the same content but be several minutes shorter, and they’ll fill in the newly created space with extra advertising.
I agree it would be tricky/impossible to do with a live show.
My only recollection is that Rush and/or his syndicators, distributors, business partners, etc. found out about the practice and immediately put a stop to it.
I should know but I don’t know if Rush’s show is delayed in various markets - a quick check says he is on 9 AM in LA which would be the normal 12 noon Eastern time.
My thought is that a condition of carrying his show is that it airs live - which would bring us back to the difficulties of using any sort of time compression.
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