They had a direct contemporary and rival, Howard Stern, who went down this road. Despite landing the AGT gig, it has been a disaster. As for AGT, he's been an overpriced prima donna who brought the show its lowest ratings, lowest viewership number and lowest 18-34 demographics result in its history.

The Howard Stern Show itself is pitched to mommies: Kittens, AGT talk, politically correct revisionism and heavy censorship of tapes, Robin reading Yahoo News and 90+ minute interviews with fossils from the 1960s and 1970s. It hasn't meant shit. THSS has never been more irrelevant.

What do you suppose Tim Sabean's "media destination" blather was? It was a pitch about watering-down and defanging the normal show.

Howard Stern called his shift to the woman and elderly an "evolution." Opie is pitching his as a "new direction" and a "reinvention." If you don't like Stern now, you're an unevolved caveman. If you don't like Opie's new direction, you're a dim-wit and the show has "passed you by."

Same shit from the same SXM asshole.

As others have said, the show is controversy-free pablum doing ketchup tastings, Daddy Talk and 50 minute conversations about 1970s rock bands. Both Stern and the Opie and Anthony show brands are neutered borefests and the execs could not be happier.

On top of your excellent points, there's an overriding issue: radio, as a destination, is dead. Streaming and on demand is the new destination. The music industry is dead - no gold or platinum sales last year, that's unheard of. Nobody listens to the radio anymore - they despise the hack bits, commercials, and corporate playlists. Everyone has smartphones now, and they want to stream in the car. Sirius is clinging to a business model that is dead - without their car deals, they'd be out of business. People don't want to pay to hear the Oprah channel - they want the Oprah SHOW - which isn't on Sirius. I think. I just went to look, and Sirius's web page WON'T FUCKING LOAD.

Howard and O&A have an older demo. Enough to keep the lights on, but most people under 40 don't care, don't know anything about them, and either listen to Spotify, or the occasional podcast. To them, Opie and Jimmy are contemporaries of their fathers - and Howard is contemporaries with their grandfathers.

Reinventing a radio show is pointless, in this day and age. There is no new audience. They're not going to get housewives. They're not going to get hipsters. They're not going to get kids. They're going to get exactly who they have now for years - guys over 40, and the occasional 30-something girlfriend of one of them. Opie's "Webjunk 2014" format is playing to an audience that doesn't exist, and never will.

And...Potsy? Really? A year ago, they would have played the hang up game on him, if they even allowed Roland to finish saying the guy's name. It's fucking embarrassing.

It's been 15 minutes, Sirius' page still hasn't loaded. What a fucking joke. SO glad I canceled my sub. Yeah, great media destination, that doesn't fucking WORK.

This. The only dog SXM has left in the fight is travel entertainment. Once more vehicles come equipped with internal Wifi, they're fucked. No one is going to pay a sub for this shit content when they can put the money towards data charges and get better free content somewhere else.

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Beautifully stated.

No, you got it all wrong.

"Shock jock" was the early days. Most of XM was just talk. Conversation. Comedians shooting the shit. Not goofy fucking stunts. Opie was always the shockjock. This is him trying to be The View.

That is quite appropriate because Howard Stern's producer Gary "Bababooey" Dell'abate said that Stern's decision to lose Artie, not replace him, and do a safer show was Stern's decision to "evolve" and make the show "the male version of The View."

Hoo Hoo, Rahhh-bin, Opie's rippin' me off! Tell 'em, Fred!

Howie always said he's the head vampire. How can you argue Opie hasn't tried his hardest to copy Howie's every step.

They are a media destination now.

They been teasing the shit out of Pottsy from Happy Days.

That is a serious fucking A-lister, have some respect.

I love listening to them hype that sack of shit interview up.

Pottsyy. laughs Gonna have Pottssssy on next week. Can't wait for the Pottssssshhhhy.

Ant interviewing Pottsy would be interesting.

ME: HOLD ON , pottsy,did you ever see Joanie's box?

Opie's not trying to go viral to gain fans. He wants to go viral because he's a narcissist douche. He likes attention. This cunt doesn't give a fuck about fans. The pay scale from siruisxm won't change with a few more listeners. It's all about him.

Jimmy never had a spine and will suck dick for a quarter

This. The only dog SXM has left in the fight is travel entertainment. Once more vehicles come equipped with internal Wifi, they're fucked. No one is going to pay a sub for this shit content when they can put the money towards data charges and get better free content somewhere else.

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