Opie and Anthony may replace Diamond Dave - CBS will hire shock jocks (Desecrated St Patricks)

MSNBC ^ | 4/20/2006 | AP

[Rome2000]

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 spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity pending an official announcement of the agreement next week.

[Miss Marple]

Are you saying that having public sex in a church and broadcasting it over the radio is only disliked by religious zealots?

Well, count me in the zealot camp.

Sometimes I think I have lived too long.

[Melas]

I imagine that NYC is a lot like Dallas in that regard. A dial full of every kind of music you could want with a great deal of redundancy. Talk stations are just a handful that cater to the those of us who aren't all that into music. Whatever that station is in New York, it has its talk audience. If it went to music, it would most like have to compete with another local station that played the same type of music.

[blake6900]

It appears raunchy satellite radio stars Opie and Anthony will replace him on seven CBS Radio stations.

I guess the twelve listeners they garner each day on XM wasn't enough to keep them there.

I look for these two to go the same path as Mark and Brian. Every other word outta their's mouths had to do with sodomy until Janet Jackson and Howard Stern finally woke up the FCC. Now they have trivia games and sight-unseen marriage contests.

Opie and Anthony aren't really shock jocks per se. They're just a couple of punks that need their asses kicked.