Posted on 05/17/2014 8:45:42 PM PDT by SMGFan
It’s the kind of conservative media story only conservatives understand.
The latest numbers are out for Michael Savage’s radio show. Recall that Savage was a key player in the battle between Sean Hannity and Cumulus radio. A battle that had an exasperated Hannity finally firing Cumulus, as reported here in NewsBusters at the time. But not before Savage, whom Cumulus had in the wings to replace Hannity in the latter’s Cumulus slots, took shots at Hannity, gloating at taking Hannity’s slot.
The Savage numbers tell a revealing tale of conservatism in the media. So let’s start with the brand new numbers themselves, numbers supplied by Nielsen Audio. They are the numbers for April – last month -, and cover 52 of America’s major radio markets. We will directly compare them here with Sean Hannity’s last numbers before being replaced on Cumulus stations - which is to say Hannity’s numbers for December, 2013. The percentages cited – again, these are from Nielsen Audio (formerly known as Arbitron) – are nothing if not startling.
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Agreed. I lived eight hundred miles from San Francisco in the middle of the AZ desert. I recorded Savage’s broadcasts long distance on cassette tapes during the KGO weekend era (1994)and saved them for many years. KSFO doesn’t travel like KGO does signal wise, so I was out of luck when he went to the full time gig at KSFO in early 1995. I honestly never expected to hear him again. But his national show has never come close to what he was in SF.
Good eye!
And no one answered you?
Lord I hope it isn't because Savage looks (and ofttimes thinks and talks) like Allen Ginsberg...lol!
Thanks for posting these. I will look at them at my earliest opportunity. I never understood why he called Rubio “the ice cream man.”
Savage has made Sean and Mark better. He also has given more headaches to the Left because they no longer know what will come at them from the Savage show....whereas they always know what Sean will attack with since he just follows the daily talking points of the GOP.
Good analysis. Maybe another part of the reason Glenn was better on TV was because the show was so much shorter than on radio. Filling all those hours on radio must be a lot tougher.
Try to find Chris Plante on WMAL in Washington DC, M-F 9a-12p. He’s become my favorite talk radio guy since he returned to the station a couple of years ago (he’d been kicked out to make room for Scarborough/Brezinski, then the audience had had enough of them and insisted on Plante’s return).
Plante’s show is preceded (5-9AM) by a trio that includes former Fox News reporter/anchor Brian Wilson.
Did anybody hear Larry Cudlow last night? Even he admits that he doesn’t have answers for all the potential problems with his amnesty solution.
I’ve always wondered how they are going to check to see if all these people actually learned English as promised, for example?
That doesn’t mean that I think the other side’s solutions are all workable either.
I had a lot of issues with Beck but am starting to like him again. Who was the first host to talk about Justina Pelletier, for example?
He also did a story about a young American veteran who unintentionally crossed the Mexican border. I realize that there may be another side to this one but its the kind of story I like to know about.
I agree Jamie Dupree is knowledgable, but he's not entertaining, because he always tries to defuse any Democratic misdeed by bringing up some past Republican example, which turns out to be far less worse than what the Democrats are doing now, and mostly irrelevant to the matter at hand.
That’s a good summary.
I like that kind of thing too.
John Batchelor does good history interviews on WABC at night.
I’ve been listening to a lot of CBS radio mystery theatre on YouTube. I’ve been reading more. I’ve sworn off three hosts—Billy Cunningham(embarrassment), Lars Larson(hack) and Savage.
I wish we still got Art Bell Somewhere in Time in this market.
I used to love her, but her zero-tolerance attitude about things like daycare got to me.
Dave Ramsey is another zero-tolerance guy. And I actually question some of the advice he gives to landlords and small business people. I have discussed this before on another thread.
Love the history shows. I usually listen to the thanksgiving one while I’m preparing Thanksgiving dinner and it’s a tradition like listening to A Christmas Carol used to be.
I love the way Medved debunked the smallpox blanket story. You’d be surprised how many people believe that.
Hannity may have become repetitive, thus, boring, but he never was offensive and insulting. He was always upbeat and endlessly expressed appreciation for his audience and the success they allowed him to enjoy. Savage is both offensive and insulting, not to mention egotistical. I can take about 10 minutes and just have to turn him off.
IF the underlying idea is that the Dickey’s despise their conservative talkers and audience, it would make sense to replace the somewhat boring Hannity with the totally offensive Savage, to try to make Savage and his rants the ‘voice’ of conservatism. Rather Machiavellian, good thing it’s backfired.
You think Rush “has obviously been leashed?”
-— In 1988, I listened to Rush to find out what was going on.
Now, WHEN I listen, it’s to find out how much of what I know is going on he won’t have the courage to mention.
Sad but true. Still, Rush and Hannity serve a purpose in introding people to conservatism, Rush more than Sean.
Obama’s eligibility is exactly what I was thinking about.
I haven’t heard any of them discuss the Bundy affair over the past week or so, even Levin.
I know that everybody was wondering why Rush didnt talk about it, but in retrospect, I think it might have been a good call. I realize that the meat of the story was government overreach, not Bundy as a person—that’s the way I saw it anyway. But Rush ( and a number of others, I think),took a look a d decided that this wasnt something they wanted to get on board with.
Yes, I’m afraid she’s a little unrealistic about some things. And I’ve noticed a few times that she seems not to hear what the caller has plainly said.
For example, one woman called and said she’d had 3 failed relationships, including 2 divorces. And Dr. L. went on for quite a bit telling the caller: obviously you didn’t think any of these guys were husband material.
It took a few moments to straighten that out. There have been several instances like this.
I find it frustrating as the listener and it makes me wonder is she not paying attention, or even, does she have a hearing problem? Which, as our friend Rush could tell you, isn’t a great thing when you are hosting a call in show.
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