Opie&Anthony returning?
From Page Six:
EVEN as members of the FCC and Congress conspire to keep programming they find disagreeable off the airwaves, radio badboys 'Opie and Anthony' are planning a triumphant return.
Greg 'Opie' Hughes and Anthony Cumia's raunchy syndicated afternoon radio show was pulled off the air by Infinity Broadcasting after they carried the sounds of a couple simulating sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral in 2002.
The pair haven't been on the air since because Infinity continued to pay off their lucrative contract. But that contract expires in June, and the shock jocks are ready to get back to work.
Although it's not clear what stations will pick them up, comedian Jim Norton, who was a regular on the show, is confident of their comeback. 'It's either June 1 or Oct. 1, depending on the no-compete clause in New York, but they will absolutely be back on,' he tells PAGE SIX.
'They were never fired. Not only did they get paid in full, but they got a raise last June,' says Norton. 'They're making more now being off the radio than they made in the first two years combined on air.'
Norton, a regular on Comedy Central's 'Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn,' says the deejays will come on 'everywhere in the country' June 1 and hit New York Oct. 1. 'They'll broadcast out of New York regardless of where they're on and they just won't play it in New York until October.'
Opie and Anthony's agent, Robert Eatman, says, 'That's not necessarily the case. I hope it is the case, we're hopeful that's going to happen.' But, he says, they don't have any firm station deals in place at the moment.
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EVEN as members of the FCC and Congress conspire to keep programming they find disagreeable off the airwaves, radio badboys 'Opie and Anthony' are planning a triumphant return.
Greg 'Opie' Hughes and Anthony Cumia's raunchy syndicated afternoon radio show was pulled off the air by Infinity Broadcasting after they carried the sounds of a couple simulating sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral in 2002.
The pair haven't been on the air since because Infinity continued to pay off their lucrative contract. But that contract expires in June, and the shock jocks are ready to get back to work.
Although it's not clear what stations will pick them up, comedian Jim Norton, who was a regular on the show, is confident of their comeback. 'It's either June 1 or Oct. 1, depending on the no-compete clause in New York, but they will absolutely be back on,' he tells PAGE SIX.
'They were never fired. Not only did they get paid in full, but they got a raise last June,' says Norton. 'They're making more now being off the radio than they made in the first two years combined on air.'
Norton, a regular on Comedy Central's 'Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn,' says the deejays will come on 'everywhere in the country' June 1 and hit New York Oct. 1. 'They'll broadcast out of New York regardless of where they're on and they just won't play it in New York until October.'
Opie and Anthony's agent, Robert Eatman, says, 'That's not necessarily the case. I hope it is the case, we're hopeful that's going to happen.' But, he says, they don't have any firm station deals in place at the moment.
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