No, thank God.
If you listen to Stern you have heard of them. He used to complain and belittle them all the time. If you listen to Stern you also heard their material.
I listen to Stern and I don’t remember them…are they syndicated? What material do you claim is stolen?
Opie & Anthony got infamous a few years ago when they had a contest to find the couple who would have sex in the most unusual place. One couple decided to have sex in a church, causing a big uproar and getting them fired.
Thanks Lord Ashtar. That sounds vaguely familiar. I honestly haven’t heard of them. Maybe they are not syndicated in the bay area.
Actually they didn’t get fired. The show was cancelled. They had an iron-clad multi-million dollar contract. Infinity had to pay them the entire time they were on their extended vacation. Thats why they haven’t been on the air until now. Even if Stern has been talking about this for a while, it is very suspicious that he would announce this now.
If they were in the Bay area it was just for a short time. Their sindication deal happened not too long before the incident that took them off the air. They were in something like 25 markets and expanding when CBS shot themselves in the foot and took them off the air.
Opie and Anthony were awful and I started listening to all news radio because I couldn’t stand them.
They were pretty funny, but rauncher than Stern. And a bit more low-brow, and a bit younger. Stern gets real celebrities, and talks about real issues, with empathy. Yes, I know, it’s Howard, but like the Daily Show, it’s always been more than a comedy show.
O&A did talk about video games more, and… well. One contest was the ‘wiffle bat test’. A woman would come over and insert said bat, and they’d see how far it went.
Or they’d do an old magic trick and tell a woman’s age by having one of them look at… well. Another contest was 'Whip 'em out Wednesday". They even had WOW bumper stickers.
Funny, yes. More low-brow? A bit. Good radio… yeah. Competition for Howard? No. Similar, yes, but without the feeling of empathy that makes Howard shine.
Opie and Anthony had a regular radio show here in the Boston market a few years back. They were without a doubt the best radio I’ve ever heard. They played songs, and just talked a bit like any other DJ. They had some real funny stuff. WOW (Wippem Out Wednesday) was a classic. They refused to play the playlists the station gave them and didn’t hesitate to say when a song sucked and would not play it.
They did a joke where they claimed the the Mayor of Boston was dead in a plane crash. Lots of people fell for it. Flowers were sent, news channels picked up on it. As a result of this fiasco, they were banned from the air in Boston.
Flash forward two or three years. The ban expires and they come back on in the Boston market. They are now based in NY and have a syndicated show nationwide. They don’t play music anymore, and only do talking. There’s also lots of people in the room and on the air, similar to Howard. They are much less funny, IMO.
They do a stunt where contestants get points for having sex in certain places. A couple has sex in a church in NYC and as a result they get booted off the air again.
Well at least Mancow is still free for the time being…
y’know I really tried to like Opie and Anthony. I gave’em a listen a number of times when they were on in Baltimore/Washington DC. There were occasional instances of stuff I found funny, but generally… bleah. They tried too hard to be shocking and it just didn’t work. It just came off as really mean spirited. And they usually had way too many people in studio, so it became almost impossible to follow who was saying what.
Give me Howard or Don and Mike any day.
Well the OP is BwanaBob (just scroll to the top of the page for that).
Can’t help you about Anderson.
Empathy? Never heard that in connection with Stern.
I have listened to Howard for years. Something like 20 years :eek: . I would not miss a show on WNNNNNBC. I cringed when I heard him doing the song “Making Money For Douchebags at NBC” (to the tune of Money for Nothing), because I knew he would be fired soon. I own a copy of Crucified by the FCC. I jumped for joy when he was hired by Krock. When ever I can I still listen. I’m not in the country right now so its been a few months.
When Opie and Anthony first came on I basically thought who the hell are these guys and turned it off. They started when they came to New York at WNEW while it was still a music station. They were talking between records. Pretty soon they had a full talk show and no music. I gave them a try and I was blown away. At this time Howard had been in decline for a while. O&A were soooo much better. Then I started hearing things on Howard that O&A did a few days or a week before. I know jocks steal things all the time but Howard was always whining about this. I don’t know if O&A stole things from other jocks but I know Howard stole from them because I heard it. At the time he started whining about them and actively began to fuck with them with their parent company, Infinity. O&A was banned from mentioning his name after making comments about his divorce (very funny comments too). So what Howard does to everyone else in the world he can’t take when its pointed at him :wally .
Sure they had some juvinile stunts. Some of them were pretty funny. The big test for me was what they could do with nothing. They were their best when talking about the news or something on TV or anything. You never knew what would become a half hour bit.
Anyway after listening to both I will go with O&A anytime. My wife is getting me XM for Christmas
Don and Mike? Don’t get me started, this isn’t the Pit. I really tried to like them. I guess I don’t like having to be told over and over whose voice is supposed to be being impersonated just so I could tell who it was. On the other hand I recently happened to be driving through MD VA and I had the pleasure to catch Ron and Fez on the radio. Damn I miss those guys.
I was hoping to read that Howard was retiring from the air. He’s tasteless, hateful, and boring, IMHO.
Stern’s conduct regarding John DeBella’s separation from his wife further underscores my point.
There’s a line that you don’t cross, to which Howard is obtuse.
You are grossly misinformed.
O&A were non-existant when Howard started his stuff back in the mid 80’s. Oh boy, they got someone to have sex in St. Patricks. Wow :rolleyes:
They took Stern’s act, added crassness, and voila.
Expect to see mass migration to Sirius between now and Howard’s start (which I believe will be sooner than promised, since Stern said he would stop the second
Bush signs the bill that personally fines FCC-violators).
O&A Had and still have Jim Norton, Howie had Jackie, notice the word HAD. Norton today is better that Jackie was in the end. Howard can’t just quit FM and leave if Bush signs the bill because of his contract. What other Radio Personalities do you know that the company they are working for is so afraid of them competing that they they gag the radio hosts and pay them until the end of the contract?
Spread the virus!
That’s the best description of Opie and Anthony I’ve heard so far… I’m not into this kind of humor, but at least Stern was doing it first. By 15 years or so.
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