These couple guys figured out what's going on behind the scenes with management monkeying with our show. And it's not gonna work because sirius is like a myspace.

What recommendations would you have for Opie and Jimmy?

I think they should get the fuck out of sirius now before shit goes down the hole even worse for them. They're already starting to lose respect from their old comedian friends. Keep that shit up till the contract's over, they won't have any old friends left.

Here's what those couple guys said in that other thread:

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[–]BeerCanThick I could have been a model 4 points 7 hours ago*

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. permalink save report give gold reply

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[–]PrinceCharmin 4 points 6 hours ago

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.

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