Why isn't there an opieandanthony.com?

5  2013-06-08 by jackbowen

I know back in the day there was a dedicated site for the boys, is SiriusXM just cockblocking them? I mean, surely Sal or an intern could upload videos and tweets that they talk about live on air... maybe have a live chat room during the shows (like paltalk... I guess you wouldnt need both) just spitballin here. And when they were talking about the "apple" webcam the other day, they said they couldnt have a camera in studio. Whats the deal with that? Listening to old shows, Opie and Erock were on paltalk... I know im leaning towards a video element but not really, I'd love to see what fatso is doing sometimes... I dunno, just wondering if anyone knew what happened

17 comments

10  ob5olete 2013-06-08

They're lazy.

5  aftershave 2013-06-08

This is the correct answer.

Howard's site runs like a swiss watch. I'm not a listener, but whenever I need to check something quickly it's there. Professionally done rundowns, archives, photos of guests, the works.

O&A have to depend on unpaid fans who care for the show more than the hosts. People have a very hard time accepting the fact that neither O nor A give any fucks.

2  LUKEWARM_DICK_SAUCE 2013-06-08

Yup, Opie have even said it on air. They don't want another website, because it's to much work to do it right.

3  stevenknight 2013-06-08

Although wordy, I registered http://theopieandanthonyshow.com/ and made a quick website with a logo, group photo, information, interactive Twitter feeds, a 'Video of the Week' and useful Opie & Anthony related links.

I'll obviously give it to Sirius XM if they ask for it but at least it's something.

1  SHUT_UP_STUPID 2013-06-08

cool website

2  MrFMF 2013-06-08

well, Steve actually owned it before. he paid, maintained and had everything always pointing back to Foundry with the fucking water marks. i dont know if he gave it/sold it back to the boys before he passed.

2  erockarmy 2013-06-08

I think it was a thing where Steve owned it, he came on board with the sirius shift and when was let go by the company they didn't want the boys creating their own website that they didn't control

2  jackbowen 2013-06-08

well I went to whois.com to see who owns the domain, came back with this:

Domain Name: OPIEANDANTHONY.COM

Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :

Eatman, Robert

[email protected]

PO Box 853

Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

US

Phone: 310-459-3728

Fax: 310-573-7229

Record expires on 26-Apr-2016   
Record created on 10-Sep-2003
Database last updated on 27-Feb-2012

googled robert eatman, looks like its their agent... I think its the dude Jimmy always talks about going to Singapore and whatnot, just a guess. Well at least they have it, maybe when they are done with SiriusXM they will launch a site?

3  Nak3dT1ckB0y 2013-06-08

Eatman is not the third-world vacationer.

Here is Bob Eatman's O&Apedia page if you're not familiar with him:: http://oapedia.com/oa/Robert_Eatman

1  jackbowen 2013-06-08

ok thanks for the info

3  rjl_ 2013-06-08

That's "Super Agent" Bob Eatman! Maybe they don't talk about him as much.

The "world traveler" type is Jonathan, who is Jimmy's manager.

1  rocketthemadfrogger 2013-06-08

They want a video element obviously, op and yimmy have commented how free podcasts like rogans have video. I'm assuming Sirius makes all those decisions and the boys have little say in it. I'm not sure about the website though

1  jackbowen 2013-06-08

Here's another whois lookup... oandaradio.com (steve from bayshore used to do rundowns on there)

Registrant: Domain Admin CBS Radio Inc. 40 West 57th Street New York NY 10019 US [email protected] +1.212975432 Fax: 

Domain Name: oandaradio.com

    Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
    Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
    Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com

Administrative Contact:
    Domain Admin
    CBS Radio Inc.
    40 West 57th Street 
     New York NY 10019
    US
    [email protected] +1.212975432 Fax: 
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
    Domain Tech
    CBS Technical Contact
    51 W. 52nd Street 
     New York NY 10019
    US
    [email protected] +1.2129754321 Fax: 

Created on..............: 2007-10-05.
Expires on..............: 2013-10-05.
Record last updated on..: 2013-01-14.

expires 10-5 of this year... someone should get all over that. Fuck CBS

1  StevenBayShore 2013-06-08

Ahhh...the good old days

1  mlabella5 2013-06-08

cbs owned (s?) the url... i remember it being branded free fm back in the day... hoe they get it figured out!!!

1  247world 2013-06-08

Ron and Fez make it look easy with http://theinterrobang.com/

0  Landeyda 2013-06-08

My guess: It's a design issue.

Nowadays a website has to look fairly good. You could throw up a Wordpress template, but really, it would look like shit (Jimmy's site for example).

I bet Sirius refuses to pay for it, saying they already have a website under their main site. So it falls to O&A to fund it themselves.

1  StevenBayShore 2013-06-08

Ahhh...the good old days