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| SmileDammit | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 7:32 AM |    | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jun. 01  | Opie & Anthony Get a 'NEW Deal By DAVID HINCKLEY Daily News Staff Writer pie and Anthony are going national. And they can talk about Howard Stern again. The hot afternoon talk team on WNEW (102.7 FM) yesterday signed a new three-year deal that will put their show into nine of the country's top 10 radio markets and 22 of the top 50. "We're very happy about it," said Anthony. "Or we wouldn't have signed." They will still originate from WNEW, 3-7 p.m. daily. It is expected they will be picked up live in most other cities, but WNEW general manager Ken Stevens said some stations will take the show on delay or may use it in morning drive the next day. Opie Hughes (l.) and Anthony Cumia have re-upped at WNEW for another three years. Since WNEW switched from music to talk last year, Opie and Anthony have been its showcase, ranked first in the city among men 25 to 54. While the station ranks only about 20th overall, it is profitable and Stevens said yesterday this signing reinforces parent Infinity's commitment to the format. Besides the syndication, all of which will be on Infinity-owned stations, Anthony said a critical part of the new deal "is that we are free now to talk about anything we want. We can say 'Howard Stern' on the radio again." They have said on the air they were under a gag order not to talk about fellow Infinity employee Stern, with whom they had exchanged relatively mild fire. They said he was washed up, he said they were imitators. They had also accused Infinity of showing them no respect. Asked if they will now take that back, Anthony laughed and said, "Never." There is sometimes concern that shows can lose some of their edge if they go national, but Anthony said that won't happen. "We really don't depend on being local," he said. "If we're talking about something that happened in New York, we already try to make it interesting to everyone." He and Opie say they plan to visit their other cities ("free vacation!") and that they are particularly looking forward to being on in Boston, where they were fired from WAAF in 1998 before they came to WNEW. Terms of the deal were not announced, but its potential runs well into seven figures. Original Publication Date: 6/6/01 | ||||
| FatkiddX | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 9:06 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | Your Mom's Box! | ||||
| hornygoatweed23 I've Got A Vagina With Teeth. G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Dragoon Battalion My friends call me Weed | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 9:18 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | I just finished reading the article on the ferry. NICE!. Looks like a new era will be dawning today at 3:00 pm - of course, I'll be at work, but I think I'll be botting up the SU (and hoping my boss doesn't catch me) to check out the festivities. | ||||
| Arthur Dent | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 9:31 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Nov. 00 | quote: Best of both worlds!!!!! We get to here them in the afternoon, and they STILL get to challenge Stern's ratings in some markets!!!! Awesome!!! ______________________________ We're having creative differences. I'm creative, you're different. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public. You sound reasonable...Time to up my medication. You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance. -Just adding to the NEW new kinder and gentler board | ||||
| Generic_Laxative | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 9:40 AM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 01 | F the Daily News the Boys made it to where it counts the Top headline on the Drudge Report (Drudge the Senior) | ||||
| Fyfetallica | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 9:41 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Aug. 00 | One word is all.. Niice  F'ing Metallicops Go! | ||||
| Ronreddog | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 9:46 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: It was reported on the Sports Guys this morning that it was a 3 year deal worth $30 Million. If this is true, WAY TO GO O & A! Now, we still need the call letters changed to WONA!  Sig pic courtesy of the recently resurrected CBH, one sick F! Please WOW this bully today! E-Mail Me | ||||
| MelKSucks | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 10:06 AM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: May. 01 | Yo dudes. My screw up... Howard told me I was supposed to fire YOU two, and give your spot to Dumb and Mikey. I messed up, so what will happen do D&M? Mel-No's. Really. Actually Mel Doesn't Know squat. Praise the old, dethroned King of All Shit. | ||||
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