That was pretty cunty of Opie. He isn't implying that he's done well so much as he's saying that Ant held them back. He basically just announced that the show grew once Ant left? What a dickhead.
I can see how you'd think that at first glance, and it's surely the more fun thing to think for some people (including me, if I'm honest). But really, Opie is saying they are rebuilding the numbers.
Ant was fired in early July. They presumably lost a lot of the audience then. Now they have gained back 9,000 listeners over what they had after losing that big chunk of listeners. They are almost certainly still down in total listeners from what they had before the firing, but of course Opie is going to stress the positive, which is that they are rebuilding the numbers.
I have serious doubts about Opie's stats, but he's not trying to say Ant held them back.
Do you people not have anything better to do than come up with wild fucking conspiracies? He said the channel grew. He didn't even mention Anthony or the amount of new subscribers that came in monthly while Anthony was there. For all we knew despite growing it could still be a major drop off. Absolutely nothing else was said except that subscriptions grew. And what is Opie supposed to do or say? Is he supposed to just admit the show sucks and yeah you're right we are losing listeners? Meanwhile Anthony has said numerous times he's happy doing his new show and constantly talks about how great it's been for him but Opie can't say anything in defense of his own show? You people take your hate to delusional levels.
All this from a guy who over analyzes tweets made by Opie into believing he was somehow talking shit about Anthony despite his name never even being brought up. Meanwhile Anthony talks about how he's happier than ever but opies a cunt for saying subscriptions grew? I'm confused here. Are you hoping to get invited to the compound or something?
How many of those are 30 day trials? I'm one of them.
Edit: Also, everyone.... If you want free Sirius XM, just sign up for their trial with a throwaway email every 30 days. Take that money you save, buy a six pack and subscribe over here with the change. :D
It was recently revealed that the OnDemand listener numbers are available and have been shown to the hosts. This is why Ron & Fez came up with the world's first OnDemand Contest
Subscriptions is different from listeners though, also baring in mind as Ant discussed on JRE lots of the people who cancelled got offers to resign at like a third the cost which all count as new subscribers.
If they are counting this as a "9000 increase the number of subscribers who have the channel as part of their package" then this number is completely meaningless.
It's because the "hate" bothers him SO MUCH that he'd rather basically hide behind numbers that don't tell the whole story than ignore it, or address it otherwise.
Opie claimed for years that they could not get listener numbers with the way the xm/Sirius radios were configured which is true, they can really only track online/app traffic.
Now out of the blue he can magically get these numbers...
I kinda remember recently that there were threads saying that subscriptions that were previously cancelled were being automatically renewed. I guess each person that cancelled and got "renewed" would be another person towards that growth number. Still, I thought we heard year after year about how SiriusXM wouldn't give anyone the numbers. Odd that all of a sudden they have.
Sirius XM forcefully putting their bullshit product inside new cars and selling them along with them don't count as subscribers in my opinion. If I recorded a song, put it in a boom box and walked around with it on full volume, does that make the people that have to listen to me my fans?
Opie should ask how much they dropped in July and August. I seriously doubt he would post those numbers. If there was a 9,000 subscriber growth I would associate it with free trials activated through new car purchases or returning customers that left when Ant got fired. There were lots of people that said Sirius either called or e-mailed them about renewing their subscription by offering free 6 months or whatever it might be. So some of the 9k could be customers who left but took up Sirius on their offer of a free 6 month subscription. They probably don't tune in but have the channel as part of their free subscription. Anthony also stated there was no way of knowing how many people were actually listening to the channel so a 9k spike in subscriptions wouldn't necessarily mean 9k people are listening to the show now. Or it could be all the promos the company has been doing for the channel...I'm sure everyone saw that new Opie Radio logo and was like ohh shit I have to know what this is about
If the channel is now "SirisuTalk" and no longer part of the "best of XM" package...wouldn't that mean that this is simply people now having access to the channel because they removed the requirement of having best of XM and now everyone who has either can hear it?... So yeah...i'm sure it did grow by 9k subs...but it had nothing to do with the content...it's now free fore everyone.
Even if what he's saying is completely factual, it's still a dogshit cowardly and dishonest way to hide behind numbers because a "hater" said something. It's misleading as fuck, like the "Toy Yoda" thing without a trace of comedy.
I was listening to a show from 2012 last night and that monstrocity "Big Ang" from the mob wives show came up. They looked up who shevwas related to and she is the niece of some mob guy and opie says atleast 4 times that hes pretty sure he used to caddy for the guy.
I hate to be the odd guy, but does anyone think that after Opie's epic rant on Howard Stern back in July that Sirius/XM really brought the hammer down? Then all of a sudden, there's no problem with the company anymore, and they resign? I wouldn't be surprised if Sirius/XM threatened to blackball them from any other medium if they would go after their golden goose or if Opie and Jim left the company. Because in spite of Opie's obsession with Howard (he fucked with their show all these years, why wouldn't he be fucking pissed), he was genuine and I thought he'd do the right thing and leave. Now all of a sudden, he's morphed into the bastard son of David Brent and Rupert Pupkin where he thinks his shit don't stink, and that a small cadre of cocksucking sycophants are creating a bubble around him. Yeah, his arrogance and elitist attitude (claiming people who dare have an opinion to not make more money than him) is a turnoff, but is this really him? I think someone needs to have a long talk with him off air and find out what's really going on.
If the numbers had dropped,which they probably have ,i can't imagine if Antonio found out he would be tweeting some random made up Twitter troll the fact.
I would guess that considering the overwhelming success of the StandWithAnt hashtag (activism for a 60 year old millionaire radio host) and the rally you setup, the number of cancellations was not substantial (less than 5k). Christ, two subreddits dedicated to the show don't even total 4k.
Opie is being a cunt however, probably told that number by a management lackey when they were going through the renegotiation process and used to justify whatever raises they got.
Just under 9,000? With all those new listeners you figure he would have a lot more than 4 re-tweets about it. This is worse than Scorch's 750,000 PFGTV app downloads.
So "just under 9,000" people woke up last month and said: "you know that show I have absolutely no interest in, or was on the fence about, and who just fired the funniest guy on it? Lemme subscribe to that channel and see what's doin'!"?
that don't make no sense
I'd love to know the "thought" process that got him to "just under 9,000". Did he think 10,000 too unbelievable, but 3,000 too measly?!?
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115 anthonycumiashow 2014-10-12
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28 Chipper_Chip 2014-10-12
All this means is that there were 9,000 cars sold that had SiriusXm installed in them.
Someone should tell Opie that everyone got this email.
Even Ant, because they didn't close out his siriusxm email account!
8 jakdak 2014-10-12
This is about as lame as the "ViralSpiral recruited me" brag.
2 chippersonlyle 2014-10-12
Opie has always complained they don't have sub numbers, but all the sudden magically has access to them?!?
20 frrunkis 2014-10-12
That was pretty cunty of Opie. He isn't implying that he's done well so much as he's saying that Ant held them back. He basically just announced that the show grew once Ant left? What a dickhead.
4 drexler57346 2014-10-12
I can see how you'd think that at first glance, and it's surely the more fun thing to think for some people (including me, if I'm honest). But really, Opie is saying they are rebuilding the numbers.
Ant was fired in early July. They presumably lost a lot of the audience then. Now they have gained back 9,000 listeners over what they had after losing that big chunk of listeners. They are almost certainly still down in total listeners from what they had before the firing, but of course Opie is going to stress the positive, which is that they are rebuilding the numbers.
I have serious doubts about Opie's stats, but he's not trying to say Ant held them back.
7 frrunkis 2014-10-12
Everything you just said makes sense and you're probably right.
But you're wrong and Opie sucks.
-10 [deleted] 2014-10-12
Do you people not have anything better to do than come up with wild fucking conspiracies? He said the channel grew. He didn't even mention Anthony or the amount of new subscribers that came in monthly while Anthony was there. For all we knew despite growing it could still be a major drop off. Absolutely nothing else was said except that subscriptions grew. And what is Opie supposed to do or say? Is he supposed to just admit the show sucks and yeah you're right we are losing listeners? Meanwhile Anthony has said numerous times he's happy doing his new show and constantly talks about how great it's been for him but Opie can't say anything in defense of his own show? You people take your hate to delusional levels.
11 frrunkis 2014-10-12
HA! Fuckin homerun thermitepaint, another howler!
-8 [deleted] 2014-10-12
Awesome reply. Thanks for letting me know I was right.
10 frrunkis 2014-10-12
Stop, you're killing me!
-8 [deleted] 2014-10-12
I'm killing you? Then I'm definitely not stopping until you're dead. You suck.
9 frrunkis 2014-10-12
Whoa! Watch out for this guy, he's quite the taboo joker haha nah we pal around.
-6 [deleted] 2014-10-12
All this from a guy who over analyzes tweets made by Opie into believing he was somehow talking shit about Anthony despite his name never even being brought up. Meanwhile Anthony talks about how he's happier than ever but opies a cunt for saying subscriptions grew? I'm confused here. Are you hoping to get invited to the compound or something?
16 [deleted] 2014-10-12
How many of those are 30 day trials? I'm one of them.
Edit: Also, everyone.... If you want free Sirius XM, just sign up for their trial with a throwaway email every 30 days. Take that money you save, buy a six pack and subscribe over here with the change. :D
12 [deleted] 2014-10-12
Edit: Or just download the show for free every day.
11 sheRATCHETT 2014-10-12
Doesn't even matter, I think he's lying about knowing the numbers all together.
12 Anton_Lemieux 2014-10-12
Ant said on Rogan's podcast just yesterday that they could never get numbers.
4 gyanos422 2014-10-12
This. Didn't he also mention they had no way of tracking numbers per channel?
1 xBrianSmithx 2014-10-12
It was recently revealed that the OnDemand listener numbers are available and have been shown to the hosts. This is why Ron & Fez came up with the world's first OnDemand Contest
2 mrheh 2014-10-12
Ha I got a free trial too lmao but the funny thing was O&j wasn't included just music channels.
2 [deleted] 2014-10-12
My free trial lets me listen to their channel with the Android app. They're listed under the "Entertainment" section. "Sirius XM Talk"
PS: Fuck SiriusXM in their silly mouths
5 Whirlaround 2014-10-12
I get the free trial now. But I deleted the OpieSnooze channel. I just use it for Ron & Fez.
9 BobKellysTits 2014-10-12
shit just got real dude
3 billisinthefridge 2014-10-12
Did you mean for me to read that in fat Bob Kelly's voice?
5 [deleted] 2014-10-12
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0 [deleted] 2014-10-12
Oooo~ Can I play?
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10 [deleted] 2014-10-12
Fuck off faggot
9 MaxKawalski 2014-10-12
Did you just purposely tell a bot to 'fuck off' and then call it a homosexual?
1 [deleted] 2014-10-12
yes
3 MaxKawalski 2014-10-12
Man!
5 [deleted] 2014-10-12
Tattle tale..
8 FuckinHomerunChippah 2014-10-12
I like your flair. COCK SUCKAH
3 michaelcolestie 2014-10-12
Is this a sub for extreme hard core wrestling matches?
-25 benjamin72 2014-10-12
Don't betray Opie Ant. It's classless and below you.
13 Slippery_Slope_Guy 2014-10-12
Fuck that. Roasting Opie would be the greatest thing ever.
7 CowsAreCurious 2014-10-12
"take some advice from us and lose some weight!"
6 Slippery_Slope_Guy 2014-10-12
Check out the empties man!
48 PacoBoy 2014-10-12
"Congratulations to the 90th city, you know who you are." Scorch.
42 Gator1010 2014-10-12
I thought they didnt know how many subscibers listen?
29 drpepper0000 2014-10-12
He's loying.
21 EskimoEscrow 2014-10-12
ME: I'm dot loying!
8 sheRATCHETT 2014-10-12
Loying, so loying.
5 Anton_Lemieux 2014-10-12
They don't.
Ant just said they never could find out on Rogan's show yesterday.
-1 ElectraMustaine 2014-10-12
OBSESSED
29 breadmoccasin 2014-10-12
"Nice try on the hate tho"
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA
9 drexler57346 2014-10-12
That's almost become Opie's catchphrase. "Opie? Oh yeah, you're that "nice try on the hate tho" guy".
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28 [deleted] 2014-10-12
Ant and Joe Rogan just talked about how the subscriber model is bullshit
-6 [deleted] 2014-10-12
Right, says Anthony who's podcast revenue is based on having paid subscribers.
5 [deleted] 2014-10-12
Listen to the clip, you hater. They're talking about how sirius misrepresents listeners/revenue by relying on "subscriber" numbers.
16 im_not 2014-10-12
No, it didn't.
15 DianaKurlan5 2014-10-12
How fucking transparent is he?
14 [deleted] 2014-10-12
He's a fuckin lying liar that lies.
11 jakdak 2014-10-12
1) Outside of the internet and mobile apps, Sirius has absolutely no way of knowing who is actually listening to the channel.
2) Opie has always sworn up and down that they didn't have these numbers
5 Motherfrogger 2014-10-12
Subscriptions is different from listeners though, also baring in mind as Ant discussed on JRE lots of the people who cancelled got offers to resign at like a third the cost which all count as new subscribers.
9 jakdak 2014-10-12
If they are counting this as a "9000 increase the number of subscribers who have the channel as part of their package" then this number is completely meaningless.
6 Motherfrogger 2014-10-12
Yeah i agree, its still retarded that Opie is saying this when he knows the systems bullshit.
8 breadmoccasin 2014-10-12
It's because the "hate" bothers him SO MUCH that he'd rather basically hide behind numbers that don't tell the whole story than ignore it, or address it otherwise.
10 Humble_is_great 2014-10-12
Opie claimed for years that they could not get listener numbers with the way the xm/Sirius radios were configured which is true, they can really only track online/app traffic.
Now out of the blue he can magically get these numbers...
18 Presence- 2014-10-12
out of the fuckin' blueeee!
-4 gsbird1065 2014-10-12
He's talking about subscriber numbers, not listener numbers.
8 Humble_is_great 2014-10-12
So what, the opie channel is the sole workhorse bringing all new xm subs in?
5 [deleted] 2014-10-12
Tss, fuckk yeahhhhhh
9 mancubuss 2014-10-12
But couldn't it have dropped massively in August l?
9 NastyPiggy 2014-10-12
I kinda remember recently that there were threads saying that subscriptions that were previously cancelled were being automatically renewed. I guess each person that cancelled and got "renewed" would be another person towards that growth number. Still, I thought we heard year after year about how SiriusXM wouldn't give anyone the numbers. Odd that all of a sudden they have.
8 Jockel76 2014-10-12
Almost made an over 9000 joke.
8 HenryjamesHutley 2014-10-12
Sirius XM forcefully putting their bullshit product inside new cars and selling them along with them don't count as subscribers in my opinion. If I recorded a song, put it in a boom box and walked around with it on full volume, does that make the people that have to listen to me my fans?
8 runningofthefools 2014-10-12
Opie should ask how much they dropped in July and August. I seriously doubt he would post those numbers. If there was a 9,000 subscriber growth I would associate it with free trials activated through new car purchases or returning customers that left when Ant got fired. There were lots of people that said Sirius either called or e-mailed them about renewing their subscription by offering free 6 months or whatever it might be. So some of the 9k could be customers who left but took up Sirius on their offer of a free 6 month subscription. They probably don't tune in but have the channel as part of their free subscription. Anthony also stated there was no way of knowing how many people were actually listening to the channel so a 9k spike in subscriptions wouldn't necessarily mean 9k people are listening to the show now. Or it could be all the promos the company has been doing for the channel...I'm sure everyone saw that new Opie Radio logo and was like ohh shit I have to know what this is about
7 SOLIDAge 2014-10-12
If the channel is now "SirisuTalk" and no longer part of the "best of XM" package...wouldn't that mean that this is simply people now having access to the channel because they removed the requirement of having best of XM and now everyone who has either can hear it?... So yeah...i'm sure it did grow by 9k subs...but it had nothing to do with the content...it's now free fore everyone.
2 breadmoccasin 2014-10-12
Even if what he's saying is completely factual, it's still a dogshit cowardly and dishonest way to hide behind numbers because a "hater" said something. It's misleading as fuck, like the "Toy Yoda" thing without a trace of comedy.
7 lexhound 2014-10-12
Another Opie lie, he's so full of shit. Continue to be he biggest liar.
7 Anton_Lemieux 2014-10-12
I wouldn't say that, he has mafia connections.
3 boofk 2014-10-12
I was listening to a show from 2012 last night and that monstrocity "Big Ang" from the mob wives show came up. They looked up who shevwas related to and she is the niece of some mob guy and opie says atleast 4 times that hes pretty sure he used to caddy for the guy.
7 aftershave 2014-10-12
There's so much bullshit in that tweet I don't even know where to start. Does Opie think people are complete idiots?
6 iFuck4Jesus 2014-10-12
Yes or you're just a HATER
1 99ovr 2014-10-12
Nice try on the hate tho.
6 BRUTAL_ANAL_RAPE8888 2014-10-12
Like anyone believes that. What an asshole
6 ExactlyUnlikeTea 2014-10-12
I'll bet Viral Spiral asked employees to make some fake accounts
6 balderoonus 2014-10-12
Joel Osteen pumpin' up those numberssss
6 ONAPest 2014-10-12
I hate to be the odd guy, but does anyone think that after Opie's epic rant on Howard Stern back in July that Sirius/XM really brought the hammer down? Then all of a sudden, there's no problem with the company anymore, and they resign? I wouldn't be surprised if Sirius/XM threatened to blackball them from any other medium if they would go after their golden goose or if Opie and Jim left the company. Because in spite of Opie's obsession with Howard (he fucked with their show all these years, why wouldn't he be fucking pissed), he was genuine and I thought he'd do the right thing and leave. Now all of a sudden, he's morphed into the bastard son of David Brent and Rupert Pupkin where he thinks his shit don't stink, and that a small cadre of cocksucking sycophants are creating a bubble around him. Yeah, his arrogance and elitist attitude (claiming people who dare have an opinion to not make more money than him) is a turnoff, but is this really him? I think someone needs to have a long talk with him off air and find out what's really going on.
5 snoopkhat 2014-10-12
If the numbers had dropped,which they probably have ,i can't imagine if Antonio found out he would be tweeting some random made up Twitter troll the fact.
Opie is a fuckin cunt.
5 Jimandthem 2014-10-12
Putting up numbahs! Way to go Opester!
5 Jared_from_SUBWAY 2014-10-12
He's either delusional... OR the greatest troll in satellite radio history (in which case, he's finally "great" at something).
4 michaelcolestie 2014-10-12
ME: grew just under 9,000 subscribers for September.
Translation: 3 new subscribers
4 telemecanique 2014-10-12
bullshit
4 dochattan 2014-10-12
Pretty good numbers for someone that was never told how many subs the show had and stated that fact numerous times.
4 phlammo 2014-10-12
Spiral Viral .... working their MAGIC!
3 Chip--Chipperson 2014-10-12
It up from 8999 Total.
3 asianpeople 2014-10-12
👳
3 schmoegreene 2014-10-12
YOU'RE A DISHONEST CUNT!
3 Dre013 2014-10-12
I would guess that considering the overwhelming success of the StandWithAnt hashtag (activism for a 60 year old millionaire radio host) and the rally you setup, the number of cancellations was not substantial (less than 5k). Christ, two subreddits dedicated to the show don't even total 4k.
Opie is being a cunt however, probably told that number by a management lackey when they were going through the renegotiation process and used to justify whatever raises they got.
3 ChestRockwell11 2014-10-12
Just under 9,000? With all those new listeners you figure he would have a lot more than 4 re-tweets about it. This is worse than Scorch's 750,000 PFGTV app downloads.
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2 devilsadvocate33 2014-10-12
So "just under 9,000" people woke up last month and said: "you know that show I have absolutely no interest in, or was on the fence about, and who just fired the funniest guy on it? Lemme subscribe to that channel and see what's doin'!"?
that don't make no sense
I'd love to know the "thought" process that got him to "just under 9,000". Did he think 10,000 too unbelievable, but 3,000 too measly?!?
2 TroyMacClure 2014-10-12
Well I cancelled as of 1 October. I had enough of Opie's subpar show.
1 icetech3 2014-10-12
Cancelled the day they fired ant.. you are a bit late:) opie is a horrible human and a crybaby...
2 Lackbear 2014-10-12
All 9,000 are Ron and Fez listeners who can't get the R&F replay anywhere but the O&A channel, which only recently started to carry the replay.
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-1 marsgamingchannel 2014-10-12
Yeah I signed up for a free trial this week for Ron and fez but I'm sure I've been by Opie radio Sirius xm once or twice
21 EskimoEscrow 2014-10-12
ME: I'm dot loying!
5 [deleted] 2014-10-12
Tss, fuckk yeahhhhhh
7 Anton_Lemieux 2014-10-12
I wouldn't say that, he has mafia connections.
10 frrunkis 2014-10-12
Stop, you're killing me!