Opie and Anthony Suspended from XM
XM Radio Suspends Opie & Anthony
WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XM Radio announced today that the company has suspended Gregg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia, hosts of "The Opie & Anthony Show" and ceased broadcast of the show for 30 days, effective immediately.
XM Radio deplored the comments aired on "The Opie & Anthony Show" last week. At the time, the company strongly expressed its views to Opie and Anthony, and they issued an immediate apology.
Comments made by Opie and Anthony on yesterday's broadcast put into question whether they appreciate the seriousness of the matter. The management of XM Radio decided to suspend Opie and Anthony to make clear that our on-air talent must take seriously the responsibility that creative freedom requires of them.
As a company, XM provides customers with tools to control what they listen to on XM. "The Opie & Anthony Show" appears on one of XM's explicit language channels (XL). Whenever a radio is tuned to an explicit language channel, the letters "XL" continuously appear on the screen. XM frequently mentions on its explicit language channels that the content may be inappropriate for certain listeners and tells how to "block" channels that feature this type of content. Channel blocking is available through xmradio.com or by calling 1-800-XMRADIO.
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A guy named Homeless Charlie is going to get the bbbboys fired. I got a list of links here if you aren't up to snuff.
http://carpeaqua.com/archives/2007/05/10/here_we_go_again/
Soooooo fired. Your mom's box.
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Can any of you O&A fans/pest spread the word in some forums..we need to get a little more chat going on in here!
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Did anyone hear about the XM/Sirius radio merger?
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My favorite shows usually involve Doug Stanhope in some fashion.
Today is one of those days.
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Join the pests in support of the Opie and Anthony show on XM Radio Channel 202. Check out their website to get more details on getting the virus! http://www.opieandanthony.com/
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