USA: XM Suspends Opie And Anthony For 30 Days
Posted on May 16th, 2007 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, 1st Amendment, Anthony Cumia, CBS, Federal Communications Commission, Howard Stern, politics, satellite radio, satellite radio licenses, Secret Service, United StatesBut not CBS…
I understand that XM and Sirius are trying to sweat talk the government into letting them merge. There are a few problems with that… like that they are the only satellite radio stations available. Oh yeah and the FCC told them they couldn’t own both satellite radio licenses.
But this is nuts. The FCC has no power to regulate content on satellite radio. This is purely XM trying to kiss government ass. I hope Howard Stern talks out against this. I hope some XM subscribers cancel their subscriptions. If I want to put on my tin hat… perhaps the Secret Service had something to do with this… but I find that unlikely. They’d probably just show up to Greg Hughes’ and Anthony Cumia’s homes.
I’d like to see O&A’s contract. I would like to think they apologized not because they wanted to keep their jobs but because if they didn’t they would be breaking their contract and owe XM all the money it’s worth.
Just amazing…
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May 16th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
i agree that it has something to do with contract compliance, especially since O&A have said numerous times on the air that they would never issue apologies.
as far as subscribers pulling their subscriptions, its already happening. i was reading some of the O&A Pest bulletin boards. there are a lot of XM subscriber cancellation announcements as well as demands for 30-day refunds while O&A are suspended.