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The show's over. The satellite radio company announced Friday that it axed the DJ after he fired off a string of racist tweets about a black woman he claimed punched him in Times Square. It was not immediately clear if Cumia's longtime co-host, Gregg (Opie) Hughes, would be allowed to continue their program.Anthony Cumia was pulled off SiriusXM after the foul-mouthed shock jock went on a racist Twitter tear against a black woman he claimed punched him in Times Square. The 53-year-old DJ, who's half of the Opie and Anthony show, was axed by the satellite radio company after Cumia...

Anthony Cumia, of Opie & Anthony radio fame, launched a misogynistic, racially charged rant after he was allegedly roughed up by a woman in Times Square. The 53-year-old shock jock said he was repeatedly punched by the woman early Tuesday while innocently snapping pictures and she accidentally got into a frame.

Word from our gridiron spies is that the New England Patriots are rather steamed that shock jocks Opie & Anthony - heard on the team’s flagship station WBCN -- aired a fake “news” story yesterday saying that QB/QT Tom Brady had been suspended for steroids. “The team is not happy,” said Someone Who Knows. “And they let that be known. But at the same time they want this to go away and not become any more than it already is.” The so-called “dirty urine” story was part of the demented duo’s ongoing “Make Stuff Up Tuesday” routine. Of course, Opie...

Former XM Satellite Radio customers say the D.C. company has made it difficult to cancel their radio subscriptions. XM estimates that about 5,000 subscribers canceled their subscriptions in protest of the satellite radio provider's decision to suspend the shock jocks of "The Opie & Anthony Show" after the duo aired a segment last month in which a guest talked about raping Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, first lady Laura Bush and Queen Elizabeth II. The show returned to XM airwaves Friday after a 30-day suspension. Opie and Anthony fans, angered by what they describe as censorship, have saturated Internet message...

I came across this while checking out the latest on XM's suspension of Opie and Anthony. It is a youtube made video with commentary of an O'Reilly show supposedly from last night. My question, did this really happen? If it did it seems rather hypocritical to attack Opie and Anthony when someone on his show made a joke about a real rape not lasting long enough.

Drudge posted this yesterday. Since it appeared on Drudge, you can rest assured that by today everybody in a position of power over radio – that would be politicians – have either heard it or heard about it. What am I talking about? It’s an excerpt from the Opie and Anthony show on XM Satellite radio. These two pigs were once on broadcast radio, but they lost their jobs when they thought it might be cute to send some listeners out to have sex in a church. Now before I give you a link .. I want to warn you...

Link to Breitbart audio: Free Speech Fracas: Joke Describes Violent Sex Assault of Condoleezza Rice

Mayor Thomas M. Menino is chastising shock jocks Opie & Anthony and WBCN for broadcasting a live "Homeless Shopping Spree" yesterday where homeless people were given money and were taken to a New Jersey mall... "This so-called "shopping spree" is a sick and twisted exercise that degrades the most vulnerable members of our society," Menino. "This is wrong, and we need the public . . . who care about the homeless and about basic human decency to stand up and tell them so." According to a live broadcast of the program yesterday, more than 2,000 people showed up at the...

Despite a Tuesday morning (Sept. 19) rant by America’s shock jock Howard Stern that he was not the subject of reported talks between his boss, Mel Karmazin, and Citadel Broadcasting chief Farid Suleman, shares of Sirius Satellite Radio continued to erode in late afternoon trading. Shares of the fledging satcaster dipped nearly 5% or 19 cents to $3.92 as more than 45 million shares traded hands. The turmoil began with a report in the Tuesday morning editions of the New York Post that said Sirius CEO Karmazin has been negotiating with Citadel’s Suleman about putting Stern on Citadel-ABC stations once...

HOWARD Stern says he's been offered a "major deal" to come back to regular radio via satellite radio - just like his longtime enemies Opie & Anthony. "The joke could be on them if I get good and worked up [because] I got offered a major deal to go back to terrestrial and stay on satellite at the same time," Stern told his Sirius listeners in comments replayed and mocked yesterday by "O&A." "Can you imagine if I go across town against them in all those markets and just kick some a-? That would really be cool," said Stern, who...

NEW YORK - No surprise: David Lee Roth's run as morning radio host is about done. Big surprise: It appears raunchy satellite radio stars Opie and Anthony will replace him on seven CBS Radio stations.Opie and Anthony were banished from terrestrial radio in 2002 — oddly enough by their new boss, CBS Radio — after airing a live account of listeners having sex in New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral.A deal was in the works to dump the ex-Van Halen singer's ratings-deprived program with shock jocks Greg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia, according to two people with knowledge of the deal....

They're coming back by popular demand. Ok, make that corporate radio's desperate attempt to save its failing radio content and its stations' revenue after departure of the King. The one-time Boston radio bad boys Greg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia will return to Boston's WBCN 104.1FM airwaves as early as next Wednesday(4/26) morning. Meanwhile, after three long months former Van Halen lead man David Lee Roth is finally scheduled to wrap up his so-called 15-minute radio career tomorrow (Friday 4/21). This afternoon, Billboard Magazine has provided details on Opie and Anthony's return to broadcast radio and a reunion with their...

DLR DeathWatch '06 Back On? We've all been hearing rumors of David Lee Roth's radio demise for a while, but now (Radio And Records Street Talk) is hearing it's a matter of when -- not if -- CBS Radio, frustrated with Dave's inability and/or unwillingness to play nice with management, will finally be forced to pull the plug. There is strong speculation that we could we see heads roll sooner rather than later -- perhaps after the winter (ratings) book hits next Wednesday? Then again, we could be massively full of crap, but somehow we seriously doubt it this time....

First there were the ads warning of the evils of "Pay TV". Then, much more recently, there have been the ads pointing out the great ripoff cable TV is (so they say; ads for satellite companies) and similar ads for cable TV which slam satellite TV. Costs, unreliability, etc. Now I've heard an ad (on WRKO, Boston) that really gives it to satellite radio. Think the broadcast owners are starting to really fear audience erosion to Sirius and XM? The ad has different people (a kind of "person on the street" approach, with the respondents saying things like: "I cancelled...

Radio bad boys Opie and Anthony are coming back, and they just might be badder than ever. This time, however, they do come at a price for listeners. Starting Oct. 4, the former WNEW afternoon hosts will do a four-hour show each morning on XM Satellite Radio, where there are almost no content restrictions and which is creating a premium channel just for Gregg (Opie) Hughes and Anthony Cumia. That means fans have to buy an XM radio, pay the regular $9.99 monthly subscription fee and then pay an additional $1.99 per month for the new channel, which will start...

<p>EVEN as members of the FCC and Congress conspire to keep programming they find disagreeable off the airwaves, radio badboys "Opie and Anthony" are planning a triumphant return.</p> <p>Greg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia's raunchy syndicated afternoon radio show was pulled off the air by Infinity Broadcasting after they carried the sounds of a couple simulating sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral in 2002.</p>

<p>Federal regulators fined radio giant Infinity Broadcasting Corp. $357,500 yesterday for airing in August last year a segment on the "Opie and Anthony Show" featuring a Northern Virginia couple having sex in a Roman Catholic church.</p> <p>The Federal Communications Commission issued the fine, the largest ever for a single incident and the highest amount permitted by law. In 1995, the agency reached a $1.7 million settlement with Infinity related to a series of raunchy segments on "The Howard Stern Show," a program the company distributes.</p>

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A radio contest challenging listeners to have sex in public places for a free trip to Boston's Sam Adams Brewery has won the broadcasters a $357,500 fine, federal regulators said on Thursday. The Federal Communications Commission proposed the fine after ruling that 13 stations owned by a Viacom Inc. unit violated federal indecency standards when they aired, on Aug. 15, 2002, the "Opie & Anthony Show," which ran the contest. The show was canceled almost immediately after the contest aired, which included broadcasts of five couples purportedly having sex and descriptions of other sexually explicit activity in...

<p>Another shock jock went too far and is no longer on South Bay radio station KSJO-FM, thanks to the dogged efforts of his critics.</p> <p>The ouster of Mikey Esparza -- who offered, on the air, kidnapping tips and satirical songs glorifying sex with children -- may presage tough times for other shock jocks in the stable of radio giant Clear Channel Communications.</p>

<p>Already under fire in the ''Sex for Sam'' controversy in which a couple was arrested on charges of lewd behavior in St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Boston Beer Co. agreed yesterday to temporarily pull a TV ad for its Sam Adams Light beer that a law-enforcement group says encourages underage drinking.</p>