I may sign up for XM if those two turds get flushed forever.
I am a subscriber to XM.
And I have never heard Opie and Anthony. It’s not why I purchased XM.
But I have to admit, this is really childish to suspend a program that is on a pay radio channel that is advertised for adult language, etc.
I don’t care what they say.
I thought radio and specifically sat radio was the last bastion of broadcast free speech.
So what if it sounds like a lockerroom?
Suspending radio personalities is the flavor of the month these days but suspending them from a subscriber service where the company warns its customers that it might not be for them, is comical..
Excellent.
Well I must be stooopid because I can’t find this article on the link? Help?
People need to lighten up.
The company owns the station, and it is (and should be) their call. The market will respond. I don’t care about the particulars to be honest (at least any more than I would care if Joe Blow said the same thing in his living room), other than to celebrate the fact that the government didn’t meddle one way or the other.
Now if we can just get Rush Limbaugh and Neal Boortz fired for their offensive language.
We can not tolerate offensive radio anywhere.
It’s a start, but I hope they get the ax for good one day. Freedom of speech doesn’t give one the “right” to be rude, coarse and vulgar — even if they’re paid for it, and even if people pay to hear it.
Boy its a good thing they did not call her a nappy headed ho or they would be off the air for good..
Overreaction. Punishing someone’s livelihood because some people got their widdle feelings hurt.
You notice their story doesn’t mention anything specific about their comments, or who they were aimed at?
I even checked their website — no details.
Not that I am going to defend these creeps, but isn’t this basically pay radio? Meaning unless you are paying to hear this garbage, you likely will not?
Does no one know how to turn the channel any more? And if one is not paying for the XM satellite service, why should you care what is said on it?
We are not muslims that fly into a tizzy at the slightest outrage, are we? Are there now people in this world wether we support them politically or not that are “more equal” or above reproach?
Again, I do not support their acts nor their comments, but it seems that especially since this is PAY TO HEAR radio people are simply making more of this than need be made.
What gets me is that they’ll suspend these guys but nothing ever happens to the producers and management that endorses these guys’ material and OKs it for the airwaves. Management should be catching hell for this, too.
Shame on XM for freaking out. I thought the point of satellite radio was to be free of FCC restrictions for paying adults who wish to hear such things.
It's ridiculous to suspend them for 30 days. This might be a wake-up call to subscribers who think they are hearing "talent" un-filtered and talent who believe they are being paid to be un-filtered.
Good decision. These two idiots have no judgment.
No need for me to switch the channel...XM took care of it for me. I guess I was right after all.