Re: Savage call's Elder's bluff

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: <boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 8:18 PM
Subject: Savage call's Elder's bluff


> Now, as I said, I did not hear Ozone or his caller in the interchange that
> led to Ozone's firing, but the interchange I heard this evening between
> Savage and a caller--also on WRKO, but in a syndicated program, not a
> locally originated one--sounds as if it was pretty much a carbon copy of
> Ozone's infamous interchange. Since Elder had already "suspended" Savage's
> program from WRKO (for a couple of nights a month or two ago) because of
> some intemperate comments Savage had made about gays, one would think that
> Elder would now regularly listen either to Savage's broadcasts or tapes of
> them. I think that Savage has dug a hole for Elder and it will be
> interesting to see how Elder extricates himself--if he CAN extricate
> himself.

Great point.

> Clearly, Savage means more to WRKO than Ozone did. If that were not the
> case, Elder would have followed up Savage's previous suspension with
> termination of the station's contract with Savage's syndicator. But Elder
> must have come under pressure from management not to terminate Savage's
show
> on WRKO. So I don't think this latest outburst of Savage's will result in
> Elder's imposing any more than another brief suspension.

I agree.  I hope the local press picks up on this.  The whole Ozone thing
smelled bad to me.  I think it was just used as an excuse to get rid of
someone that they wanted to fire for other reasons.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine