That actually makes sense...I could be wrong, but wasn't O&A's contract with XM renewed through 2009 initially shortly before they signed the first CBS deal?

Of course those no talent idiots only get a year contract, so they can be canned at any time, "merge" MONOPOLY or not. The next suspension caqn and will be the end of these two. Fear not though, rumor is Open and Ass and ignorant Lou are going to team up and form a ignorance think tank.

"Of course those no talent idiots only get a year contract, so they can be canned at any time, "merge" MONOPOLY or not. The next suspension caqn and will be the end of these two. Fear not though, rumor is Open and Ass and ignorant Lou are going to team up and form a ignorance think tank."

A man with nothing better to do. So sad.

psst they "win in the end" havent you heard?
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FAIL

All right! One more year to try to come up with something/anything remotely funny to say!

Haha one more year and the Open & Anus morning zoo will be unrenewed with CBS and XM. Can't wait for that day!

BTW, Howard wins in the end, not these two fucking hacks.

hmm not to sure in their talent huh?

prob could not find anything better...not much talent really out there and the boys are good compared to whats left...and not political talk...

Even I am bored by the comments

Brother Weeze Rules Rochester!!! (Linger, Longer)

"A man with nothing better to do. So sad.

Posted by: scott"

By that comment kettle, black..... Even sadder, since YOU scott have NOTHING to say or add but BS.

They can spin it however they choose. A one-year contract is a vote of no-confidence or low-confidence. If they were valuable, the contract would have been longer, merger or no merger.

"It's a safe assumption that CBS and Opie & Anthony wanted a longer term......"
Yeah, but luckily for XM listeners that ain't gonna happen.

lots of crickets from "pests"
anxiously awaiting the spin on "how great a one year contract is and this is what O&A wanted"

Gregg "Opie" Hughes also said it was a one year on the air on Friday. I remember him telling Nick Dipalo that.

The only 0.0 is not working in FM radio, where the listeners are.
Your man Howard hasn't been on the radio in 2 years, but he's the victor?
Go chase your guns and religion, losers.

The only 0.0 is not working in FM radio, where the listeners are.
Your man Howard hasn't been on the radio in 2 years, but he's the victor?
Go chase your guns and religion, losers.

While you are all sitting there bashing O&A for a 1 year deal, you are fattening your asses arguing on an internet message board. Yea, O&A are the pathetic ones!

"Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf"

I suggest you read the covenants to the Merger Agreement between Xm and Sirius.

No changes to material contracts may be entered in to by either company, without approval of the other party. No contracts longer than 12 months may be entered in to either, without approval of the other party. And since neither company has any idea of what the final combined product of the programming will be, Xm was not permitted to offer more than 12 months, per the agreement, without express consent given by Sirius. Which would be unlikely since the final decisions on programming have not been decided yet.

The same goes for Sirius. Why do you think that NEITHER company has entered in to any programming agreements that extend beyond 12 months? Look it up.

Basic business.

You may want to try pulling your head out of Howard's ass and learning a bit about honoring business agreements, rather then spending it being blinded by everything Howard.

This is why "Toddy Boy Clem" was only given a one year extension at Sirius. XM would have had to approve a contract longer than one year.

Posting a O&A article on this site is like dropping a popsicle on the sidewalk on a hot summer day. It's a matter of minutes before the ants are swarming all over it.

I've changed my mind, "merge" MONOPOLY will be good.

Yawwwwnnnn..... I am SOOO tired of the O&A, Howard fighting on all the sites. Just listen to who you like, and stop giving a shit about the other show. It's time to fucking GROW UP already!!!!

jcrean, its a rivalry perpetuated by o/a. the last time stern mentioned o/a, it was in a neutral manner regarding the handshake. o/a continually say stern and his crew sabatoge their show behind the scenes, are looking to run them out of the business, etc.

fans of both shows stir it up, but as far as the shows themselves, its a one sided on air fight with o/a doing the majority of the fighting and complaining.

Harsh Reality listens to the show every day, so you know what he says above is true. They talk about Stern at least once a week.

“harsh” -

Obviously a Stern fan talking about something he isn’t uninformed about. Just another sheep following the shepherd. O&A do NOT say that Stern sabotages their show (in present tense, as you stated), they simply revealed the fact that Stern enforced a gag order on them through their boss back in the day when O&A were on afternoon drive (in the PAST, not the present). A fact that your hero Stern has openly admitted to on Letterman.

Re-hashing the sad hear-say and generalizations you pick up on the Stern message boards does not equate to smart rhetoric and effective debate. And besides talking about Artie today, O&A have not mentioned Stern (at length) since the “handshake incident.” And as you recall (or obviously don’t) there was no fighting or complaining on the O&A side. More often than not, any discussion of Stern is in retaliation to mud-slinging by Howard or his crew (i.e. Artie trashing their Letterman appearance).

Do your research and come back when you have something worthwhile to contribute. As for the Angry Dwarf, before you call a one-year contract a vote of little to no confidence, consider the fact that they didn’t have to be re-signed at all. Then consider the details of the XM/Sirius merger. Then go F’ yourself. Dummy.

FAIL

I listen to both shows, its O&A and their jealousy war. To Howard, O&A is more of an after thought. I do think that Howard and the gang get a kick out of the doom and gloom of WXRK....
If there was indeed a war it happened a long time ago, I think the winner is clear. $500 million/5years vs. 3million/1 yr

You’re right Joe. It’s just jealously.

After all, Howard brings his hasn’t-been-relevant-since-the-’80s brand of humor to only one audience four days a week (minus several two week vacations per year) for far more than he’s worth.

O&A only have double the audience (satellite and terrestrial) and millions of dollars! They must be seething with jealously

By the way, where is your millions of dollars, Joe?

I not surprised by these no talent waist of xm bandwidth

now excuse me, i was in the middle of sucking howard off.

Twice the audience? Nigger please. Arbitron ratings proved that 0.0 are FAILBOATING in every market they are in (prove this #1 in 18-49 demo argument) on terrestrial, (probably explains why they are down to 3 markets!) and the first ever Arbitron rating of SDARs proved that 0.0 are barely even a blip on XMs satellites with a whopping 216,000 listeners a WEEK! HAHAHAHAHAHA Fucking die pests.

Can't wait for this Spring 08 Arbitron rating for satrad to come out. More failboating to be provided by Open & Asshole.

I notice a glaring absence of Howard's ratings in that post.

The guy can't adapt to the changing face of radio, runs to Sirius, and continues to be irrelevant. How many Sirius listeners is he pulling in? LINK! GIVE ME A LINK! And for that matter, where are your 216,000 listeners?

I may be incorrect, but a drive-through window gets maybe 6 listeners at a time - MAX. And that's only if you get a minivan.

ron fez noon to three

"Twice the audience? Nigger please. Arbitron ratings proved that 0.0 are FAILBOATING in every market they are in (prove this #1 in 18-49 demo argument) on terrestrial, (probably explains why they are down to 3 markets!) and the first ever Arbitron rating of SDARs proved that 0.0 are barely even a blip on XMs satellites with a whopping 216,000 listeners a WEEK! HAHAHAHAHAHA Fucking die pests."

Opie and Anthony, says CBS, are No. 1 among men 18 to 49, which is their target demographic and good one to sell advertisers.

Source:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2008/04/10/2008-04-10_opie_and_anthony_renewed_at_krock.html

scott (aka HD radio boy says:

"Of course those no talent idiots only get a year contract, so they can be canned at any time, "merge" MONOPOLY or not. The next suspension caqn and will be the end of these two. Fear not though, rumor is Open and Ass and ignorant Lou are going to team up and form a ignorance think tank."

Posted by: scott
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you would appreciate them for if you had an XM radio!!!!
since your employers at FM radio dont allow you to be a sat rad fan boy as you like to call us!

for the dum ass that says O and A are just on in 3 markets is wrong they are on new yourk, cleveland, boston, tucson, Rochester, Albuquerque, las vegas, grand rappids, Cape Cod, lafayette, flint, buffalo and saracues. I isten tothem in Tucsonon 1075 fm, so yah ddumb ass not 3 markets.

"Re-hashing the sad hear-say and generalizations you pick up on the Stern message boards does not equate to smart rhetoric and effective debate. And besides talking about Artie today, O&A have not mentioned Stern (at length) since the “handshake incident.” And as you recall (or obviously don’t) there was no fighting or complaining on the O&A side. More often than not, any discussion of Stern is in retaliation to mud-slinging by Howard or his crew (i.e. Artie trashing their Letterman appearance)."

Oh, thats funny. "besides Artie"," at length", each "ho ho" IS Talking about THE show. What was that muti-day bleed through of H100 during your show?

for the dum ass that says O and A are just on in 3 markets is wrong they are on new yourk, cleveland, boston, tucson, Rochester, Albuquerque, las vegas, grand rappids, Cape Cod, lafayette, flint, buffalo and saracues. I isten tothem in Tucsonon 1075 fm, so yah ddumb ass not 3 markets.

Wow David, with such great grammar skills you possess, it is no wonder that everybody knows that 0.0 are on such wonderful stations, and proves my point on the quality of listeners that they reach in those "markets". Are they still on that lovely AM station in San Fran, and what happened to working for free in Philly? Shit, I think fucking Mancow is on bigger markets and heard by more people than this douchechill inducing train wreck.

Everyone meet ignorant Lou. Ignorant Lou's a o&a lover, but he rejects their FM show though since there is too much control NAB there. He doesn't trust terrestrial radio or anything about it. Anyone who is smarter than him is labelled NAB which he has made his personal enemy (remember we're talking about Lou and his supreme ignorance here, fantasy is all Lou's got since this guy isn't at all smart, as we've seen by his posts)

NO! to "merge" MONOPOLY... it's the only way to save o&a for ignorant Lou.

Poor ignorant Lou....

O&A RULE BABY!!!

I got nuthin'

pat battle, go back a month or two when Trump skipped out on O/A...and remember opie's cryptic rap about how stern is sabotaging their show and guest relations. i listen to o/a so dont give me your fail bullshit.. i know exaclty what im talking about and so do you

You're right. I do.

FAIL

it so amazes me that anytime O&A is mentioned here that it brings out the stern fags in droves, but when anything related to howard is brought up (as rare as that seems to be nowadays), it gains a lot less attention by the pests.

also, if i am not mistaken it is the Howard listeners that comment about O&A in just about every non related article here on orbitcast.

keep drinking the howard kool-aid, dopes. they don't talk about howard anywhere near the amount that your hero would like you to believe, if at all anymore. keep bringing up the stale old howard rhetoric such as 0.0 and bababooey.

while you are obsessing about about a show that you don't like, i will be sitting here listening to and being entertained by O&A while i try to get through another day of work.

IDIOTS!!

I listen to both shows but it's obvious that O&A are washed up hacks that have no talent and copy Howard. I'm completely impartial because like I said, I like both shows. But Howard is killing them and all O&A do is talk about howard. O&A are going to be fired from the planet there is no way they will get their contract renewed...oh, shit...um, they only had it renewed for one year because they suck and...oh, it's because of the merger agreement..well they still suck balls, howard rules but remember that I listen to both shows.

Bababooey.

3 of Stern Shows biggest Fans
http://www.zshare.net/audio/10552676e6ed9c5d/

3 of Stern Shows biggest Fans
http://www.zshare.net/audio/10552676e6ed9c5d/

I'm sorry. Open and Ass? You guys are almost as funny as Howard. You know he did invent funny twists on names. Hoo fuckin' hoo.

I can't wait till the day both shows are gone so these retarded comments can no longer be made. What would you people do with your lives then? I can't imagine.

What was that muti-day bleed through of H100 during your show?

Posted by: tom c. | April 14, 2008 8:17 PM

Hello, anybody

"notice a glaring absence of Howard's ratings in that post."

Nice catch, Captain Obvious. Maybe that's because he doesn't have terrestrial ratings. See, he hasn't had to run back to terrestrial like your h-h-hacks. Stern is exclusively on Sirius, 100% by his choice. And largely thanks to him, Sirius has gone from an also-ran to the market leader.

"The guy can't adapt to the changing face of radio, runs to Sirius, and continues to be irrelevant."
"Howard brings his hasn’t-been-relevant-since-the-’80s brand of humor"

Aww, aren't you a couple of cute little sheep, parroting every jealous canard that the grunting redhead and the pock-faced skeleton throw your way.

So let's put this to the test. (Oh how I love doing this...) Google News is always a good place to look back at the past month or so of "relevance":

Google News: Search on Opie Anthony (NOT a phrase, for maximum hits):  57 results

Google News: Search on "Howard Stern" (Exact phrase, for most accurate return. Hits with the words "Anna" and "Nicole" filtered out, so don't try regurgitating Balding Opie's lame Howard K. jokes):
  421 results

That's right. 421 to 57.

Not enough of a beating, you say? Let's try Google Trends. Google searches are hands down the best indicator of what people are interested in. We'll check for the past year:

Google Trends: Compare "Howard Stern" to Opie Anthony

D'OH! Not even close! Looks like Stern delivers yet another fact-based ass kicking to your middle-aged b-b-boys.

So, you were saying...? Exactly WHO is "irrelevant"??

I'm sowwy, little "pests". But like your wacky morning zoo heroes, you stumble, you fail, and you lose in the end. Badly.

"notice a glaring absence of Howard's ratings in that post."

Nice catch, Captain Obvious. Maybe that's because he doesn't have terrestrial ratings. See, he hasn't had to run back to terrestrial like your h-h-hacks. Stern is exclusively on Sirius, 100% by his choice. And largely thanks to him, Sirius has gone from an also-ran to the market leader.

"The guy can't adapt to the changing face of radio, runs to Sirius, and continues to be irrelevant."
"Howard brings his hasn’t-been-relevant-since-the-’80s brand of humor"

Aww, aren't you a couple of cute little sheep, parroting every jealous canard that the grunting redhead and the pock-faced skeleton throw your way.

So let's put this to the test. (Oh how I love doing this...) Google News is always a good place to look back at the past month or so of "relevance":

Google News: Search on Opie Anthony (NOT a phrase, for maximum hits):  57 results

Google News: Search on "Howard Stern" (Exact phrase, for most accurate return. Hits with the words "Anna" and "Nicole" filtered out, so don't try regurgitating Balding Opie's lame Howard K. jokes):
  421 results

That's right. 421 to 57.

Not enough of a beating, you say? Let's try Google Trends. Google searches are hands down the best indicator of what people are interested in. We'll check for the past year:

Google Trends: Compare "Howard Stern" to Opie Anthony

D'OH! Not even close! Looks like Stern delivers yet another fact-based ass kicking to your middle-aged b-b-boys.

So, you were saying...? Exactly WHO is "irrelevant"??

I'm sowwy, little "pests". But like your wacky morning zoo heroes, you stumble, you fail, and you lose in the end. Badly.

Google searches are for things that you have a hard time finding. When you know where they are or what they are saying, no need to search for them. And most of the news stories are mentions of his name in the merger articles...not stories ABOUT Howard. Or stories about Artie quitting the show which is in all likelihood a ploy to try and get his name somewhere seeing as hes on ANOTHER week vacation.

The true test is who is saying 'did ya hear what was said on the show?' in public places. Noone has said that about Howard in years. Noone knows whats going on with his show othe than his hardcore listeners. No article is about what is going on with his show. Most OnA articles, while smaller in numbers due to the high profile of Howard's name in merger talks...are ABOUT their show or interviews or events that happened or them re-signing a contract.

Howard will always have more media mentions because of his name and his history. But thast exactly what he is....history. He has become irrelevant, out of touch and underground as far as pop culture and entertainment goes.

Your hero absolutely tried tyo go back to FM just as O&A did but his contract with Sirius wouldn't allow it. So he didn't stand by his decision at all. THat's if you call a cash grab a decision.

Sirius hasn't gone from also ran to market leader, they've gone from also ran to still in 2nd place by about 2 million subs and having to merge to stay afloat.

Oooooh, google trends. You got me there. I'll admit there are more people googling Howard than actually listening. Perhaps that's because his old fans wonder "where is he now?".

SadRatMan -

It is so pathetic how your desperate desire to cling to the scraps of a once great radio dynasty trumps common sense. It really pains me to see the worst in human ignorance.

Oh I how I looooove doing this.

How exactly does comparing the number of news stories relating to a 30-year radio career (Stern) and 10-year radio career (O&A) equate to a show’s relevance? Imagine this Sad - Howard has accumulated more stories over 30 years than O&A have in 10! Unbelievable! You sure got me!

I suppose you’d pit Britney Spears against Miley Cyrus in a Google News search and tell me that Britney (and her 10 year career) is more relevant today than Cyrus (and her 1 year career ... and hit album ... and hit movie ... and hit TV show). Absolutely brilliant train of thought.

And you should probably read closer before you take out your thesaurus (”what’s a smarter sounding word for ‘good’?”) and piece together another shallow piece of rhetoric. As you’ll notice, Yimmy was responding to Coward’s contention that O&A have 216,000 listeners a week on SATELLITE radio. Therefore, Yimmy was not asking for terrestrial ratings for Howard, which he obviously doesn’t have, but for Stern ratings to counter that number.

And it’s nice to know that you and Howard are close enough that he’s told you that he keeps his show satellite exclusive, 100% by his choice. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that he can’t handle FCC regulations. Or the fact that he wasn’t asked to come back to replace Roth. I mean, who wants their show to be on TWO formats? That would be ridiculous! [For fear that you may not be getting it, please note the sarcasm]

But Howard told you otherwise, so it must be true. And you would call someone else a sheep ...

Time for you to go see what else you can piece together loser. Your delusions of comment grandeur were all for naught. Back up the fail-dozer.

FAIL. FAIL. FAIL. FAIL.

"The true test is who is saying 'did ya hear what was said on the show?'"

This statement is very true. Didn't Dopey and HVACthony play a segment of Howard's show on theirs?

0&0 always take it in the end...

Awesome. That brings the total number of people talking about Howie to two.

He's worth every penny. Tell'em Fred.