I think management has a don't rock the ship mentality as long as the subscriptions stay steady. As soon as subscriptions start going down I imagine there will be a major cleaning house at sirius. Tits and his large unmerited salary have to be one of the first items on the chopping block.

If Stern leaves in a few months, the company will go into a panic.

Management & the show are melding into one shitty entity.

well, opie was always the hybrid of management and show.

gregg "daywalker" hughes. all of their weaknesses, none of their strengths.

OpieRadio doesn't have to be profitable its a subscription based service, they just need content. Keeping Opie around kept some of the O&A listeners around. Also they probably had the same budget from corporate so they just reinvested Ants money into raises, Stankels, and studio. Like it or not Opie is a name and SXM loves that and now his show is trying mass appeal soccer mom radio to help the sales department sell the show, management dream come true

Only problem is the OpieRadio brand isn't exactly having great PR these days thanks to us assholes

So true, I just started listening about a year ago and I don't understand how everyone can be so hateful. I guess most subs/forums lean towards anthony, but holy shit it's gotta suck when all the fans that go on forums don't like the show.

do you listen to the old shows on youtube? then you'll understand why everyone is so hateful

i should give it a try, and i bet i will like them more, but regardless even if opie sucks now that doesn't mean he should be pulled off the air. it's a different show now, period.

listen to the hundreds of hours when Colin Quinn, Patrice O'neal, Bill Burr, Bob Kelly, Louis CK, Rich Vos, are on. And listen who the fuckhead is that tends to derail things every time. 99% of the time that fuckhead will be Opie.

I think the fact that Opie has his own channel goes to show how little management even pays attention to what he's doing.

They have to pay Opie for the remainder of his contract, so they might as well hold onto him until it's up in 12 months. At that point, they'll "make decisions".

Like the decision to re-sign everybody . . . which everybody will jump at.

If I was an exec there, I'd keep him around till his contract comes up, because the name Opie has some recognition - they need the people in the midwest buying cars to flip through the Sirius brouchure when deciding whether or not subscribe to go - hey Opie radio, my cousin in New York used to talk about that show and how funny it was.

Then come contract time, I'd bend him over a barrel because there are no other options for the Opster at this point. This backlash on social media has poisoned him for other outlets, that plus his lack of talent and fans make a successful podcast out of the question

The company doesn't have much and O&A / Howard has to be 80% of their subs.

I doubt they are pissing away money, they do seems to have no shortage of ads. If they were desperate they would have to do read-throughs throughout the show.

And I cant believe you're this obsessed with how a corporation spends its money. Especially when I'm pretty sure you are neither a subscriber or shareholder. Besides this premise competely contradicts the theory that Anthony's final fatal twiter meltdown was somehow concocted by surius to save a few bucks.

Is this sub trying to save face after their embarrassing failure to get Opie fired? Well, that's one thing this sub has in common with Opie; sweep all failures under the rug while shouting down and mocking anyone who dares to point them out.

I can't believe they tried to do that, a lot of people like opie still and rely on him for their long commute. Why take them away, there's no replacement for a live show at 7 am.

well, opie was always the hybrid of management and show.

gregg "daywalker" hughes. all of their weaknesses, none of their strengths.