Who cares about Savage? He’s not even on in NY anymore.
He joined up with Stabby the Clown Glenn Beck (who admits he “might have voted for Hillary Clinton”).
That’s pretty much all I needed to know to make me wary again.
He only does podcast/internet now.
Savage’s career is in a tailspin. He was doing fine in the evenings (in most markets), then took some bad advice from Lew Dickey, former head of Cumulus Broadcasting, which owns WABC and a number of stations that aired Savage for years. Dickey convinced Savage to move his show to afternoon drive and compete with Sean Hannity. Savage agreed, and bombed—badly. Not only did he fail to dent Hannity’s drive-time dominance among syndicated hosts, his former evening slot began to be filled with more stations switching to Mark Levin, or picking up new hosts like Buck Sexton.
By the time the “afternoon” experiment was over, Savage was in a bind. Few stations wanted him in PM drive, and most had found a quality replacement for his former evening slot. Last I heard, he has a one-hour daily broadcast show and a podcast. And having worked in broadcasting, I can tell you that few program directors want a one-hour show; doesn’t fill up much of the schedule and by the time the host and callers get rolling on a topic, it’s time to sign-off.
Hope Savage’s writing career is going well (and it apparently is). His radio days are slowly coming to an end.
One more thing: Savage has always been jealous that he was never a part of the conservative host “club.” Rush, Hannity, Levin, Neal Boortz (now retired) and others have long been friends off the air. Hannity and Levin were guests at Rush’s last wedding; Limbaugh inducted Boortz into the Radio Hall of Fame a few years ago. Savage never made it into that circle, one reason he used to refer to the others by various nicknames.