The suspension is over. One month after XM suspended them for some convoluted reason, Opie & Anthony returned to the satellite radio company’s airwaves today, celebrating by giving away a whole lot of tickets for a summer comedy tour they’re promoting. Aside from a few jabs at an XM mistake (referring to the show as “Opie & Andy” on its Web site), the broadcast was fairly tame. There was no call-to-arms against XM, no rants about censorship or the death of Free Speech, nothing. Greg “Opie” Hughes did mention that XM would have to “earn” their trust again, but he shares Java-Logs with strange men so whatever. Rich Vos is still a dummy, Patrice has lost all his street cred and Bob Kelly’s knee is still broken. In other words, all is right in their crazy little world. Opie & Anthony Pic Stolen from Wackbag (nfswblahblah) → Read More
Radio bad boys Opie & Anthony will return to the XM Satellite Radio airwaves this Friday, June 15, at 6 a.m. XM suspended the duo last month after all of the hullabaloo generated after they aired a homeless man’s offensive ramblings. Now, if you recall, a large number of the radio show’s fans protested XM’s decision by, among other things, canceling their XM service, destroying their XM units and crying censorship. The fact is, the fans pay for the adult humor and content of the show, not to mention that their channel can be blocked quite easily; it’s not like this went over the public airwaves or anything. Oh, and if you canceled the service, XM says it’ll waive the $14.95 reactivation fee. Is this an olive branch to the fans? → Read More
Hot damn, the XM signal is back online! Now we can get back to not listening to Opie & Anthony, though I guess Oprah & Friends does have its fair share of hilarious moments, too. XM had been having signal problems for the last day or so. Users had been complaining that they weren’t able to tune in at full strength. XM’s contingency plan was to tell people to listen online. But, alas, crisis averted. Long live the satellites Rock, Roll, Rhythm and Blues. XM’s full signal is back! [Orbitcast] → Read More
XM Satellite Radio might have some ‘splaining to do. Reports suggest that angry fans who thought they had canceled the service in response to Opie & Anthony’s suspension are just getting their accounts suspended. Fans hang up thinking they’ve canceled XM only to find out later on that XM didn’t honor their request, instead putting their account on hold for so many months. Oops. The fans aren’t too happy about this and several are calling for some sort of investigation into XM’s practices. O&A party rock! XM Pretends To Let Customers Cancel [The Consumerist] → Read More
Hell hath no fury like the Opie & Anthony pests scorned. Rumors, utter utter rumors, suggest that between 19,000 and 38,000 subscriptions were canceled as of yesterday in response to the radio duo’s suspension. That works out to about 20,000 subs killed for each of the past two days. Add that to the many XM units still being destroyed and XM certainly must be feeling the heat as a result of punishing the duo. The Los Angeles Times, an honest to God real newspaper, reports that fans are pretty damn livid. Maybe XM shouldn’t have advertised the channel as “uncut, uncensored and totally filthy.” Fight XM [cancelxm.com] Listeners shocked by XM hosts’ suspension [Los Angeles Times] → Read More
XM Satellite Radio is finding out first hand that Opie & Anthony have quite a few dedicated fans, fans who are now canceling the service en masse in response to the duo’s recent 30-day suspension. XM suspended the pair in response to so-called outrage stemming from a segment that aired on the program last week. (Well, really because, supposedly, there was an agreement in place that they wouldn’t discuss or even hint to the incident while on-air. XM apparently felt they did.) In fact, I was jogging around my idillic neighborhood when I heard the show and segment in question. Annnnndddd…. → Read More
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