Roth out, to be replaced by...Opie & Anthony?

Good news for me since i'm too cheap to pay for satellite and haven't had an O&A fix since 2002. I wonder what the 2 hours of "exclusive O&A" will be in addition to the 3 hour program...'best of' type stuff?

I have never heard O&A, what is thier schtick?

O&A have gotten much funnier since they went to XM. This will hinder their show, I think.

Roth was a train wreck. So terrible - SO TERRIBLE.

And fuck Stern. He's a douche.

I thought O&A were hilarious back in the day. I think the only difference now will be a much bigger delay and a lot more bleeps.

Frome the small amount I've heard on Sattelite, normal B.S. radio shtick. Nothing new to see. Regardless, they have to be better than that idiot "Rover" they replaced Howard with here in Detroit. I normally listen to "Drew and Mike" in Detroit (far beter than everyone mentioned so far), and would switch to Stern during the commercials. They replaced him with "Rover's Morning Glory" show. It's sad and pathetic and not even remotely listenable, and now I'm forced to flip to AM news stations during D&M breaks.

i think don and mike out of dc would be great. two hilarious older kats that spend half their time talking about their sad lives. although i haven't listened since i left dc 2 years ago. i did hear one of them lost his wife in a car accident last year so i don't know how personal they get on the show now.

Don talks about his wife and cracks jokes about being a widow a lot. Sometimes it’s weird to listen to him but it’s a solid show.

I always felt hiring Roth was done knowing he’d fail. Get a post-Stern disaster out of the way early and then put something on that might attract some listeners. I really hope Opie and Anthony spread out west beyond those 7 markets. I gotta believe they’d do better out here than Adam Corolla.

rover was awful- he got started here in cleveland, and it was worse here than it is now that he's syndicated.

*gazes into crystal ball* rover will be gone as soon as O & A catch on. and they will. again. and hoo-hoo will be boo-hooing all the way to the end of his sad, pathetic career.

"RAMOOOOOOOONE, get that dog and catepillar face their pink slips!"

Stern on Sirius is like old Stern. Its great, but I can't listen to it everyday. I go through phases. I do think its BS that DLR got cancelled. The dude's a fun guy to listen to, the show was probably constantly being fucked with though.

Speaking of which, Stern is probably going to do a whole show about this. And he'll probably have DLR on his show. Wouldn't it be funny if Howard gave him a show? That would really piss off Les Moonves.

The only reason Stern (who talked about it a bit today) would have Roth on, or be supportive of Roth at all is because he failed. If Roth would have somehow been successful, no matter what he did, Stern would've claimed that Roth had no talent, and was ripping Stern off. In other words, he would've been the same has-been douchebag that he is now, just in regards to a different person. I love how CBS is using O & A (and let's face it, thats the whole reason this is happening) to fuck with Stern. He deserves it. He cries, he whines, he complains about CBS and the FCC. He constantly tried to make them look bad- and now, CBS/XM are going to do what Stern couldn't, mainly blend Satellite with Terrestrial, without damaging either.

Moonves didn't screw Stern. Stern screwed Stern- and unlike that wrestling bullshit 8 years ago, this is a fact. All Stern had to do was play ball until his contract is up, and then that would've been that. But like any petulant five-year old, he went and pissed himself, thinking he'd get what he wanted. Now the punishment begins.

cbs didn't say shit the entire time stern was wrapping up on terrestrial. they just kept quiet and enjoyed all the ratings he brought in.

I listened to Don and Mike a year or so ago, only to make fun of them. When I came back from a long trip up north before winter, I found Don and Mike no longer on our local talk station, and that Freda died. I felt pretty bad, because me and my brother would always make fun of them for having their wives be a third host on the show. But if he makes jokes about being a widow now? Well, I feel less bad.

Roth is terrible. I'd rather have Carolla.

And I never found O&A entertaining, except when they had guests. Jay Mohr all the way!

Don doesn't so much make jokes about his wife dying, it's more about how different his life is without a woman around to keep things normal. He's talked a lot about how he spent one night crying in a closet and other assorted low points since she passed away. But he knows the kind of show he does and with the exception of the first show he did after she died he has tried to keep it an easy going program.

I don't really hate Corolla but pretty much every bit and personality he surrounds himself with on that show is painfully unfunny. They have a character on there called the "Deaf Frat Guy." He acts like his name suggests but if it was Stern or O&A they would actually find a deaf frat guy.

Back when O&A were on in this area I never really found Opie to do much of anything. But Anthony and Jim Norton always seemed to maintain that show's good comedic content.

Yeah, I can't imagine how that played out with their style stuck in my head. What a tone of shift. From playing "Let's Get Retarded in Here" and energetically pronouncing the exact date of the day - MUNDEEE - to "My wife died in a car accident and I can't bear it so much so that I hide out in a closet and bawl all night". Crazy stuff.



Yeah, that sounds straight out of Stern. It's typical Adam would kind of copy Stern since he was on the show a fair amount, but still, shameful.

I've listened to virtually every Sirius Stern show since he launched in January, and it's been his best work since at least the mid-90s. He's hardly a has-been at this point.

No shit....he's been bitching at the FCC ever since they started fining him for his on-air antics. His show suffered as a result, since station management had him on a two minute delay and would bleep anything that was borderline objectionable.

That alone was enough to drive him away from radio. The fact that Sirius offered him virtually unlimited creative control (and a boatload of money) made it an easy choice to make. Ever since the switch, he's actually been cheering them on, since he's in unregulated territory, and those on "free radio" are indirect competitors.

As far as CBS goes, Stern left amicably. The only point of contention was that they withheld the release of Stern's tapes which cover his post-NBC period, but that could've been worked out since Stern held the IP rights and CBS couldn't use the tapes without that anyways. The shit hit the fan once Moonves filed that bullshit shoddy lawsuit, which makes the REALLY weak argument that Stern "pirated" CBS' airwaves without their knowledge.

I've never heard O&A, but how could that possibly improve their radio show? The beauty of satellite radio is that anything goes. If Stern were to syndicate to terrestrial, then he would be under the same FCC regulatory restrictions he was trying to escape in the first place. Sure, I guess he'd get more money, but as a fan, the LAST thing I'd want is for him to return to terrestrial.

Maybe O&A can be funny without pissing off the authorities, but in today's climate, who knows what they'll start restricting tomorrow.

Maybe you weren't paying attention, but Stern DID finish out his contract. He gave CBS about 14 months of notice that he would NOT be renewing his deal, and that he was headed to satellite radio. CBS had a year to plan for his exit, and as expected, they weren't able to immediately fill the void, which led to the collapse of their ratings.

CBS had the option to pull Stern off the air for the remainder of his contract, but they couldn't bear to have their advertising cash cow on the bench. After a year of killer profits while cashing in on his grand exit, now CBS is claiming that Stern caused CBS irrepairable harm while under their employ.

The only harm he caused CBS was by finishing his contract and deciding to work elsewhere.

wow... more awesome visual radio from stern. he still doesn't realize after all this time that you can't fucking see that shit?

I'm convinced that either you're an employee of CBS, a diehard fan of one of the many Stern imitators (O&A/Mancow/etc), or Jackie Martling.

i'm convinced you're a stern zombie. let's agree to disagree.

At least I have my facts straight. It's perfectly okay to not like Howard's show, but your ramblings sound like something out of the O&A Army or the offices of CBS.

and you sound like fucking gary dell'abate.

I got Sirius for Christmas, and was way more excited about getting the NFL than I was about getting Stern. Living in Nashville, the only exposure I had to Stern was the E! show, which was nothing but blurred-out boobies. Yawn.

That said, I'm an enormous fan of Stern's Sirius show, and I finally get what makes him so special . . . It also puts horrific rip-offs like Bob and Tom (UGH) in their boring, hacky place. ("We said 'balls' . . . tee-hee!")

That's all you've got? I refute your argument, and that's what you're left with? Try a little harder, and respond to my earlier post.


edit- in response to Ninhead

You must have missed the part of the Stern show where he tried to get on DLR's show in order to give him good radio adivce. And also the part where he suggested CBS give DLR 1.5 years to build up a loyal audience. He saw it as a passing of the torch situation. In other words, you don't really know what you're talking about.

That was tremendous radio, and Stern at his edgy best. It was a hilarious and scathing indictment of the porn industry itself, and the human detritus that inhabit that world. Also, the pathos of racism goes tangentially under the microscope by virtue of the mal-informed reactionary political correctness on the part of 'Crystal Clear'.

The uneasineess of Stern and Robin (and by extension all of us in the audience) for this clearly unstable 19-year-old to ride the Sybian machine made for some amazing radio.

I'm in agreement that the Stern show since the move to satellite has been equivalent to Stern at his peak (both in the late 1980's and the mid 90's).

Too much ignorance in this post to dissemble and address. "Pissed himself"?

Go freeeeee fm!!