{"id":906,"date":"2011-05-24T21:28:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T01:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=906"},"modified":"2011-05-25T06:36:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T10:36:06","slug":"michael-savage-i-have-the-third-largest-audience-in-radio-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"Michael Savage: “I have the third largest audience in radio history”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr Weiner needs to pay a visit to the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Once again, the Michael Savage character mangles “history”.\u00a0\u00a0 Prior to the TV being released on the public,\u00a0national AM radio shows would routinely pull 20% national radio shares.<\/p>\n

Fred Allen had a weekly radio audience of 20 million in the 1930s, when the country only had a population of around 125 million…..\u00a0\u00a0Fibber McGee and Molly, George Burns, Amos n’ Andy, Red Skelton, Walter Winchell, the Grand Ole Opry….<\/p>\n

Of course, radio history didn’t exist before Savage invented it and they stole his ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mr Weiner needs to pay a visit to the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. Once again, the Michael Savage character mangles “history”.\u00a0\u00a0 Prior to the TV being released on the public,\u00a0national AM radio shows would routinely pull 20% national … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}