Name change is official in late Nov.

"Opie & Anthony originally started broadcasting on a premium channel that required an additional $1.99 monthly fee ( In April 2005, the O&A virus was released to the rest of the XM Nation when the premium channel was made available to all subscribers and XM's monthly fee was upped to $12.95"

...Cause they could not get anyone to pay for the service.....and sirius was charging 12.95 and being sucessful at doing it...

Yeah, probably had nothing to do with the fact that they dropped $650 million on MLB a few months earlier. Wouldnt they just be dropped if they couldnt attract and audience? why would they raise the price and keep them?

"but howard said..."

I guess Stern is failing on sirius cause they just started charging $3 for an online stream that is equal to the free XM stream.

Heard the promo about the name change about half an hour ago.

Strangely, one line in there was "O & A, all day". Does this mean Ron & Fez are moving/leaving/etc??

Opie said that Ron and Fez moving to their own channel was the "worst kept secret at XM" today. So, that would explain the "O&A all day" line.
Also, having O&A on all day on 202 means that they are failing. :)

Congrats, guys - it's been a helluva ride. Looking forward to seeing how the show's going to evolve from here on out.

That said, I think Jimmy's right about the channel name - it should simply be "Opie & Anthony".

This means its time for me to pay the old XM bill. I subscribed on 10/04. Even though ive taken a break from all talk radio i still support the boys. XM is the shit, thanks for bringing me here.

[...Cause they could not get anyone to pay for the service.....and sirius was charging 12.95 and being sucessful at doing it...]

Shows how little you know... It wasn't just O&A being added to the Standard service, XM also included their 64kbs streaming online service that was originally $3.99 extra. But they also allowed existing subscribers to lock into a lower rate for up to 5 years. I was paying $9.95 per month +$1.99 for O&A prior to it, but I was able to lock in for 5 years at $8.95 per month, so I was actually getting more for less per month.

"To celebrate their two-year anniversary, O&A are teasing a 'special announcement' that ..."

...They'll be personally thanking all 30,000 suckers who originally bought them as a 'premium'.

>> ...They'll be personally thanking all 30,000 suckers who originally bought them as a 'premium'. >>

Well worth the money for not having them for 2+ years, thank you.

they are not failers.

they are great.

10th place is nothing to sneeze about.

hoo hoo i invented gag orders.
tell em anthony.

That was barely recognizable as an attempt at humor.

How many times must we bring this up?

35,000 (you dropped 5000 from youre earlier lies) is the number that a random caller on Stern's show came up with about the subscribers. That is the ONLY time that number has come up and the only place it is mentioned is internally on Stern messageboards. Repeating it here does not make it fact.

Hasn't it been proven that Howard has been lying about pretty much everything in regards to O&A already? Quit digging him into a deeper hole.

then what is the number?

if they were succsessful , then they would of kept the 1.99 fee.and they would be # 1 in all markets.but i wouldn't call them failers.they have clout. they just put a gag order on jv and elvis.

STERN IS WHAT 55 NOW...HE'LL BE DEAD AND GONE AND O&A WILL STILL BE CRANKING ON THE RADIO...HOW DOES THAT FEEL

Mark, let it go - you're only giving the Stern fans an opening to piss all over this.

Not that they need an excuse...

Who do you guys keep talking about? Stern? What does Anna Nicole's baby daddy have anything to do with this?

Gag order? i missed something O&A put a gag order on someone else?

could that be true?

PNess.... what are you talking about? Howies the one who put the gag order on O&A. Good to know you've been listening though, but then again you don't really listen do you?....

Assfaces .... XM reported to the stock holders how many people subscribed to thier XL channels. It was around 30,000

o&a had a gag order on jv and elvis because thay said shit to the board op
and anthony show.

how bout the one channel be called rip-offs

and the other channel be called hypocrisy.

Stan, You are an idiot. The numbers were never published. And just to prove it why dont you try to find a press release stating it? You wont because you have no idea what you are talking about. Enjoy the FUD from Howard.

sternfan73 - no they didn't and while I'm sure you would love to think they did I would also love to know your source for this. You guys really are zombies.

"o&a had a gag order on jv and elvis because thay said shit to the board op
and anthony show.

how bout the one channel be called rip-offs

and the other channel be called hypocrisy."

the Stern fans asked us to give them proof when rumors of the Stern gag order were floating about and we gave it to them. hell, Howard even gave us all the proof we'd ever need when he admitted it on Hannity. so i ask you Stan, where's YOUR proof? where's the newspaper articles? where's the soundbytes?

stop making shit up. we know you Stern fans are just trying to use the JV & Elvis situation to their own gains. when the Stern gag order came out, at least there was the NY Post article from 2000 that broke the story. where have there been ANY statements about O&A putting gag order on JV & Elvis, other than on Stern fan sites?

the Stern fans are just pulling rumors and lies out of their asses in a weak attempt to make O&A look like hypocrites like Howard. and for years we accused Howard of putting a gag order on O&A, so what better way to get back at us than starting rumors about O&A putting a gag order on JV & Elvis? your attempt at retaliation is so incredibly transparent.

truth is, neither show has talked about the other show since Friday, so it's more likely that CBS management stepped in ON ITS OWN to stop the infighting. that's not a gag order.

What does sterns age have to do with anything. I am still being entertained so why does it matter. Why do you care so much about what entertains me.

BTW opie and anthony WILL be talking about Howard sometime this week. Pat Cooper was on today. They just provided more material for YOUR show.

"blah, blah, blah.....your attempt at retaliation is so incredibly transparent.....blah, blah, blah...."

Heh. It's so much fun watching retards get riled up.

Did you know it takes more muscles to post on this shit TypeKey then it does to masturbate?

hmmmm....

Why does everyone say that O&A put a gag order on JV and Elvis when JV and ELVIS continued to talk sh*t about O&A and the fight the next day and a few days after? I dont get that!

And why do stern fans say O&A are failing when they re-started as a tiny premium channel on XM and worked their way up to national sydication with satalite in just 2 years? They must be failing pretty big!

poopboy why wouldn't xm release those numbers to the public if they were any good?

giving gag orders and having two channels the next thing they will be doing is taking fridays
off.

management put an stop to it? hmmm.. that figures. i added JV and Elvis to my friends on My Space and they didnt even post my ragging on O&A.

Oh, 5.1 million boys. NASCAR leaves in a few months and the GM contract expires when? It's only a matter of time, fellas. Only a matter of time.

congrats to your guys, another hour coming to FM, dont sound good for XM, do thay have any say in that?

>> management put an stop to it? hmmm.. that figures. >>

Chernoff was sitting in with the JV/Elvis show and he told them to stop talking about it. O&A actually encouraged them to keep talking, because they're NOT hypocrites like Howard. They WANT to get into it with other shows. That's the difference.

>>i added JV and Elvis to my friends on My Space and they didnt even post my ragging on O&A.>>

Aww, can't even make friends with a midday show, eh? Damn.

>>NASCAR leaves in a few months and the GM contract expires when? It's only a matter of time, fellas. Only a matter of time.>>

Nascar? Please.

if they get that 6-10 slot all to them selves , who do they blame for the bad ratings then?

that virius is really spreading, huh. that move to free-fm has really brought in a lot of subs to xm. ha. 3 hours of advertising everyday on free-fm and they lost to sirius for another quarter, again. i thought the entire reason for that move was to bring more subs to xm. not really working

dodgerblues,
only a matter of time until what ? until you finish your last budweiser tall boy and pass out at your computer with your pants around your ankles .

"if they get that 6-10 slot all to them selves , who do they blame for the bad ratings then?"

Why, Stern and his "gag order", of course...

Desperate times and all that...

And those commercials suck ass...

Why did they say Jimmy was cursing?
Just answer that simple question.