The worst kept secret in radio is now official. Surprise!

Opie and Anthony will be heard on the following CBS Radio stations:

New York - WFNY 92.3
Dallas - KLLI 105.3
Philadelphia - WYSP 94.1
Boston - WBCN 104.1
Pittsburgh - WRKZ 93.7
Cleveland - WXRK 92.3
West Palm Beach - WPBZ 103.1

CBS Radio stations in New York, Dallas and Philadelphia will also stream the O&A show show online at 923freefm.com, 1053freefm.com and 941freefm.com, respectively.

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

The pests will enjoy this one. Not even a full work week has gone by since DirecTV removed O&A from the lineup, and word has it that DirecTV is reinstating them back today or tomorrow. According to people familiar with the matter, DirecTV was overwhelmed by the response (read: pest attack) and has decided to bring back Opie and Anthony.

No word on whether MLB Home Plate will return as well, or what the channel number will be.

Thanks Brian! 

So now that the cat is out of the bag when it comes to Opie & Anthony syndicating their XM Satellite Radio show to CBS Radio - a lot of questions have been raised. What's the details on this and how will it affect subscribers/non-subscribers?

First, the bombshell. Today is David Lee Roth's LAST DAY on CBS Radio. This has been confirmed by a CBS representative.

Opie and Anthony will be starting on CBS Radio starting next Wednesday. Opie and Anthony will on a total of 7 markets and not 3 markets as was said on Stern's show.

Of those seven markets, O&A will be on in the afternoon drive slot on Cleveland's WNCX, which will allow "Rover" - WNCX's morning drive jock - to continue broadcasting in his current timeslot.

Opie and Anthony will do three hours simulcast from WFNY studios, from 6am - 9am ET, which will be broadcast uncensored on XM Satellite Radio and a FCC-friendly version will be simulcasted on the CBS stations. Then O&A will go down to the XM studio and broadcast an additional two hours, from 9am - 11am ET, exclusive to XM Satellite Radio subscibers. Additionally, there's word that more programming will be added to High Voltage 202 as an added value.

During the simulcast, O&A will be allowed to publicize XM Satellite Radio with little (if any) restrictions. This has no relation and does not void the CBS Radio lawsuit against Stern, because the lawsuit is not about mentions of SIRIUS but rather the alleged hiding of a subscriber incentive. There's little doubt though that this move by CBS to allows free XM publicity will be brought up in the courts.

Expect an official press release on this very soon (possibly today?).

[via AllAccess.com] 

(Side note: it sort of stinks that Inside Radio is getting all the credit for "breaking" this news, when it was really Allen Sniffen from the NY Radio Message Board who broke this back in early March. A little attribution would be nice.)

The Wall Street Journal is reporting more on what we've been hearing: Opie & Anthony are to replace CBS Radio's David Lee Roth.

In a sign of the struggles some broadcast-radio stations face in the absence of Howard Stern's popular morning show, Mr. Stern's successor in New York and other markets will leave CBS Corp.'s airwaves, to be replaced by the duo Opie & Anthony, according to people familiar with the matter.

Babblermouth.net is reporting that the duo's return to terrestrial radio will be on CBS' NY, Philly and Dallas' Free-FMs as well as WBCN Boston, WNCX Cleveland, Pittsburgh's K-Rock and West Palm Beach's The Buzz.

UPDATE: The NY Post, FMQB, and Radio Ink have all picked up on this.

The rumor mill isn't letting this one die. Rumors of Opie and Anthony being syndicated to terrestrial radio - specifically on some of CBS Radio's East Coast markets - still are buzzing about.

Originally, word had it that O&A were to replace David Lee Roth on Howard's old home of K-Rock. But since then reportedly talks had stalled.

Now Inside Radio reports that O&A would actually do their show from CBS Radio studios in NYC, but would continue to broadcast on XM Satellite Radio. Interesting. Considering they are the only on-air XM radio personalities in the 57th Street studios, this could be plausible. UPDATE: I'm an idiot. Ron & Fezzy broadcast from the same location.

[Inside Radio] 

Last night's XM channel update has apparently come with some consequences. DirecTV channel 879, the channel that Opie and Anthony was being broadcast on, is no longer available as you can see from the photo above.

High Voltage also isn't listed among the DirecTV XM Channels, or in the channel lineup on DirecTV's website.

Why? Very good question. I'm sure we'll find out today.

UPDATE: The removal of the channel, along with XM's MLB Home Plate, is due to DirecTV opting to include only music channels in their programming. Feel free to contact DirecTV should you disagree with this programming change.