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Opie and Anthony

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Radio-Info is reporting that Steve Carlesi, the PD of the Opie and Anthony show on XM, has left and may not be replaced. The contract for the show will soon be up. Perhaps this is an indication that the budget cutting management of Sirius XM may not be renewing the duo?
Of course O & A had shows for quite a few years on the old WNEW FM, and then K Rock. There seems to be virtually no buzz about them since they left terrestrial radio.
 
Steve's position was "eliminated" by Sirius.

Also, Opie has been complaining about the offers they're getting on his Twitter page. Ant is staying silent. Sounds like negotiation tactics more than anything. They'll almost surely re-sign for less money, just like Howie will later on this year.
 
Question O&A have to ask themselves is this..would it be just as easy to go it on their own, or do they wait to see what Stern chooses to do before signing with SiriusXM?  Howard sounds like someone who is looking to leave and start his own thing..
 
Keep in mind that O&A arrived on satellite radio (XM) long before Stern eventually jumped to Sirius.
 
Speaker of Truth said:
Question O&A have to ask themselves is this..would it be just as easy to go it on their own, or do they wait to see what Stern chooses to do before signing with SiriusXM? Howard sounds like someone who is looking to leave and start his own thing..
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Howard can afford to jump to a platform that doesn't make money. Opie just got married and had a kid, and Anthony spends a lot of money on his house, guns and cars. They don't have Howard's "FU" money.
 
"Keep in mind that O&A arrived on satellite radio (XM) long before Stern eventually jumped to Sirius".

"Howard can afford to jump to a platform that doesn't make money. Opie just got married and had a kid, and Anthony spends a lot of money on his house, guns and cars. They don't have Howard's "FU" money".

That's part of my point...If Howard goes, that opens up a line item..Sirus XM may have no choice but to reup O&A or try to entice Bubba to kill his return to terrestrial radio..

Howard can likely use a variety of advertising platforms to get the word out if he needs to..but what could Opie and Anthony do on their own? Is their following as devoted as Stern's is?
 
I think O&A's following is more devoted, but much smaller. Podcasting isn't an option for them. I don't think it's a profitable option for Stern, but he can afford to be in a business that loses money.
 
Opie and Anthony possible leaving Sirius = Opie radio bit.

The Opie and Anthony possible leaving Sirius issue this site alluded to is nothing more than a radio bit. Frequent guest and close friend of the show Jay Mohr revealed such today through a couple of messages on his Twitter account. Opie often uses his twitter account to manipulate the few hardcore show followers they have left and has brought Jay into the bit. Jay Mohr tweets read - "jaymohr37 just spoke with @opieradio about the show. that is some crazy shit. freaking shame. : (" Jay then followed up very shortly after that message with "jaymohr37 - Just spoke with @opieradio heard about the show. Holy shit. i'm stunned. : )" It is all a big joke I'm sad, no I'm happy. After Opie and Anthony's last contract negotiation Opie admitted that he personally tried to influence their effort by personally posting messages about their contract negotiations on the New York Radio Board and yes Opie said DCRTV as well. Maybe Opie is jealous that Howard's Sirius negotiation is making headlines while very little has been mentioned in the media about Opie and Anthony's contract renegotiation efforts considering both are coming due at close to the same time. Ron & Fez have been alluding to the bit this week making clear Opie is running a bit again so the fans don't worry. Their fans have now realized Opie is trying to drum up attention during their long scheduled 2 week vacation http://www.wackbag.com/showthread.php?t=127860&page=21 . Opie has done this during other long vacations and it never has turned into anything but an attempt to keep listeners interested in the show while they are away.
 
I have a Sirius subscription for my car, on the internet and through my Dish TV subscription (which only has music) and when XM merged with Sirius, I finally gained access to O&A and I became addicted. Listen to them whenever I get a chance. Unlike Stern, they're animated and exciting and are always capable to make me laugh! But the sad thing is that the O&A audience that I've learned from listening is a very very very loyal crowd that's mostly based in the East Coast, especially where they originated in the Boston/NY areas. The West Coast...ehhh...not so much. I can't prove that with facts, it's just an observation I made.
 
O&A did well in Cleveland when they were on terrestrial radio..but there are markets in the Central, Mountain and Pacific Time Zones that never caught the Virus...if the Saint Patrick's Sex Stunt had never happened, they might be ruling from sea to shining sea in afternoon drive..

Jim Norton is a major part of the O&A show, and one of the reasons I'll immediately flip over if Howard is killing time with Eric the Actor..again..

Does anyone know if Artie Lang has been getting paid after his suicide attempt, or did XM Sirus take that cash back? That slot was never filled, either out of respect to Artie, or because Howard may have already known he was bailing and decided not to fill the slot..
 
According to Orbitcast, a site devoted to satellite radio news, Opie and Anthony have been offered significantly less than they have been receiving. And with their contract ending shortly, there still has been no agreement reached with Sirius XM.
Probably Sirius XM is the only entity that has somewhat accurate numbers for the amount of subscribers they attract to satellite radio. Without that information, it is probably impossible to judge what the duo is worth to them.
Latest Orbitcast Article concerning O & A: http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/s...act-negotiations-still-not-resolved.html#more
 
"O&A" should stand for "Obscurity and Anonymity" at this juncture.

Talk about blowing the opportunity of a lifetime with the "Sex for Sam" stunt. I still to this day don't understand how management approved that promotion in the first place.
 
Re: Opie and Anthony possible leaving Sirius = Opie radio bit.

topptoopp said:
The Opie and Anthony possible leaving Sirius issue this site alluded to is nothing more than a radio bit. Frequent guest and close friend of the show Jay Mohr revealed such today through a couple of messages on his Twitter account. Opie often uses his twitter account to manipulate the few hardcore show followers they have left and has brought Jay into the bit. Jay Mohr tweets read - "jaymohr37 just spoke with @opieradio about the show. that is some crazy shit. freaking shame. : (" Jay then followed up very shortly after that message with "jaymohr37 - Just spoke with @opieradio heard about the show. Holy shit. i'm stunned. : )" It is all a big joke I'm sad, no I'm happy. After Opie and Anthony's last contract negotiation Opie admitted that he personally tried to influence their effort by personally posting messages about their contract negotiations on the New York Radio Board and yes Opie said DCRTV as well. Maybe Opie is jealous that Howard's Sirius negotiation is making headlines while very little has been mentioned in the media about Opie and Anthony's contract renegotiation efforts considering both are coming due at close to the same time. Ron & Fez have been alluding to the bit this week making clear Opie is running a bit again so the fans don't worry. Their fans have now realized Opie is trying to drum up attention during their long scheduled 2 week vacation http://www.wackbag.com/showthread.php?t=127860&page=21 . Opie has done this during other long vacations and it never has turned into anything but an attempt to keep listeners interested in the show while they are away.
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Gary, is that you?
 
WNTIRadio said:
"O&A" should stand for "Obscurity and Anonymity" at this juncture.

Talk about blowing the opportunity of a lifetime with the "Sex for Sam" stunt. I still to this day don't understand how management approved that promotion in the first place.
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Not to their fans. Clearly you are not one of them. They were on K-Rock after Sex For Sam. Yes, it was a dumb stunt but they recovered to sign a big deal to replace Roth and a big deal to go to XM. Their national audience is probably as big as most average one city shows. They probably make more as much now as they did on NEW.
 
Not to their fans. Clearly you are not one of them. They were on K-Rock after Sex For Sam. Yes, it was a dumb stunt but they recovered to sign a big deal to replace Roth and a big deal to go to XM. Their national audience is probably as big as most average one city shows. They probably make more as much now as they did on NEW.
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I did listen and was a fan when they were on WNEW, didn't really care about when they were on K-Rock and now they have all but faded from my memory.

Really, was it a big deal to replace Roth? They could have put just about anyone on after that debacle and it would have sounded like the most brilliant radio ever done. Seeing that they're not there and satellite radio isn't willing to shell out millions for them, I wouldn't call that successful in the sense of being influential. Sure, they've made plenty of money, probably the most money when they were sitting their first CBS contract out doing not much of anything. That's what killed them the most, those 2 years away from radio. They had a momentum going and it fell off a cliff, and people have short term memory... by the time they got to K-Rock, it was watered down because of the simulcast and the simple fact that people had moved on to other things.

I still maintain that had Sex for Sam not happened, they would be in a much different place now than they are.

And lastly, using your twitter for contract negotiations is just plain dumb.
 
WNTIRadio said:
I still maintain that had Sex for Sam not happened, they would be in a much different place now than they are.
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Yeah, they'd be doing mornings on the part of Stern's old syndaction network Carolla didn't snag.

O&A's humor is geared towards the assimilated children and grandchildren of Northeastern inner-city ethnics, those children and grandchildren that left the city but never left the metro area. O&A appeal to the blue collar Northeasterners because that is what they are. O&A, like Stern, also appeal to the college educated children of blue collar Northeasterners because they can relate to them. O&A's humor does not translate to those whose parents and grandparents were on the farm. Farm people will just will never understand the sarcasm and tough-guy attitude that is pervasive in Long Island, Jersey, Philly, Boston, Hartford, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Buffalo, Detroit, Milwaukee, maybe even Chicago and Toronto.

Stern in many ways also falls into this audience. But unlike O&A, Stern doesn't come across as a tough guy. He was always a self-depricating family man, and I think that image helped him nationally. Were Stern and O&A to do the same stunt, Stern would be called titallating and O&A would be called perverted. The Northeast will listen to perversion, the rest of the country will not.

That said, I actually got to listen to the SFS stunt, and could not believe they were booted for it. Were I major network exectuive, and could somehow find a way to put them back on my network, I would, because THEY ARE FUNNY. I would pay them by splitting profits, and let them decide how much wanted to pay for content and how far they wanted to push sponsors in order to draw in new listeners. I would give them 18 months to build a audience and set of sponsors.

Of course, FINDING A PLACE to put them will be a HUGE CHALLENGE, because O&A were a major facet of the HOT-TALK format that went nowhere 10 years ago, but MANAGED TO DESTROY LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE HERITAGE ROCK STATION IN THE NORTHEAST. Not that the heritage rock format was viable, but there is literally nowhere to put them now. Bringing O&A on board means starting from scratch to get 18-34 white male listenersip. So good luck to them.
 
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