Howard is on an early vacation. O&A have officially ruined it- and it's wonderful..
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*EDIT: It's "95-X", whatever station that is.
You're leaving AGAIN?A rope leash wrote:Adios, amigos!
Since Citadel active rock WAQX Syracuse began airing Opie & Anthony in morning drive on Dec. 20, XM Satellite Radio has been fielding calls from other terrestrial stations inquiring about the pair’s availability. XM executive VP of programming Eric Logan tells Billboard Radio Monitor that XM is “evaluating that market on a case-by-case basis.” And Bob Eatman, the personalities' agent, says he and XM are "very interested in expanding the base and brand of Opie & Anthony."
The decision to run the stars of XM’s premium “High Voltage” channel in place of Howard Stern while he is on vacation came from Citadel headquarters in New York and was offered to 95X. That came on the heels of a previous Citadel move that agitated Stern, the decision to begin cutting off his show at 10 am on its four Stern affiliates, which began Nov. 29.
Now Citadel has upped the ante in its dispute with Stern over his move to satellite radio. “While Howard’s on vacation, we’re providing our listeners with some fresh entertainment” Citadel-Syracuse OM Tom Mitchell tells Monitor. “We have every intention of honoring our contract with Stern.”
The satellite radio contract that talent agent Bob Eatman forged for O&A differs from the one that Stern inked with Sirius, which makes Sirius the exclusive radio outlet for Stern beginning in January 2006. “We definitely have that option [to air terrestrially] with this contract that we signed,” Gregg Hughes (Opie) told Billboard Radio Monitor’s Bram Teitelman in an interview in September. “I’d personally like satellite radio to be so successful for us that we never go back to commercial radio. But we’ll definitely keep that option open. Maybe there’s a form of our show that we can make available to commercial radio.”
Apparently there is. 95X is taking the pair’s XM feed, editing it to conform to over-the-air standards, and running it the following morning. Having a full day to sanitize O&A could make the previously banished personalities a more attractive proposition for terrestrial stations now.
"With Stern announcing his exit, we thought it would be a perfect time to announce Opie & Anthony's entrance to terrestrial radio,” Eatman told Monitor. "We've heard from a lot of stations."
“We’ll take it one step at a time and move slowly, case by case,” says XM’s Logan. Could the availability of the show on free over-the-air radio cannibalize XM efforts to lure O&A fans as subscribers? No, says Logan. XM is the only outlet for their uncensored show, he notes, and it is available to XM subscribers “on-demand,” since channel 202 repeats their morning show continuously, 24/7.
noiseradio wrote:Gee, I'm sorry WHAR. I guess I thought a contest (as described by the hosts themselves) where the show encouraged people to have sex in public places, like churches, with extra points for exposing their genitals counted both as sophomoric and crotch-oriented. But you're quite right. There's no comedy involved at all. My bad.
http://radio.about.com/od/archivednewso ... 72604a.htm"Infinity enjoyed what we were doing for them, and we got the [ratings] that they could sell," says Anthony Cumia, 39. "When the heat got too hot, they kicked us out the door."
On Howard Stern: "He's such a hypocrite and full of s-t because when we were at Viacom, he went to the bosses and made us shut up [so] we couldn't even mention his name," says Opie.
"We know if we went back on commercial radio, there would be such a bull's-eye on our foreheads because of all the indecency crap that's going on," says Opie.
"You know who I'd apologize to?" says Opie. "Our listeners - because I think we took away a really good show.
Haha. You seem to have atleast listened to ONA- and you're not taking this too seriously. Cope, you rock.Copenhagen Fan wrote:WHAR Alex Bennett is a REAL creepy old dude.....He claims that he was Howard before Howard.