Because the CBS version of the show was dog shit

You mean you didn't like Opie's lists?

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Can you please link a clip that encapsulates this statement? No doubt, one exists.

I remember waiting to tune into XM when it came time for the walkover to the studio in between shows. The XM part was better because they could finally relax and be themselves, but they even wasted some of the satellite show time by recapping/complaining about their CBS portion.

The dump report was always a delight. Especially when Louis was in.

Despite the half hour long defensive stands they constantly took insisting otherwise, it's because no one was listening.

I think they were last place in every market

But thats not what opie said

The Opster may have pumped up the numbas a lil' bit, lil bit'. Just a splash, a lil' taste. You know, fill in the dead spots.

The ratings were shit and they wanted too much money. A lot of it had to do with Opie's cornball sensibilities and forcing shit like Rock Scream Tuesday, Cat Noise Wednesday, Midget Sightings, I'm A Balding Bitch Titted Buffoon Thursdays, etc.

Those were brutal days. You can tell that Ant and Jimmy used to cringe with that stuff. Then Jimmy came up with the Prom Cunt contest and I vaguely remember Opie doing everything he could to stink that up.

Outside of NYC and maybe a couple of other markets they had abysmal ratings in most markets getting dropped from stations during 2007-2008. By 2009 they were only on in NYC (I am not sure if they had a couple of other markets when they got sacked from K-Rock).

In NYC they were 2nd or 3rd in their target demo in all their ratings books which was good but they were brought in to dominate that demo like when they were on WNEW. The CBS show didn't work out for a bunch of reasons.

• The "Shock Jock" format by 2006 was passe.
• David Lee Roth killed Stern's audience by 80-90% in most markets
• CBS imposed heavy censorship on the show which limited the content.
• The Show might have been a bit too narrow for a wide audience to take a hold of the show.

All that being said they were still doing solid in NYC during 2009 but when K-Rock switched formats to top 40 they didn't have a place for O and A on that format. Had K-Rock hung on for another year or two they would have probably stayed on that station if they wanted to.

But overall it just didn't lineup for O and A, they didn't have the markets to make syndication work for them. What would the point have been for them to give their show away for free on K-Rock if it only exposed your show to one market while everyone else that listened to the show on XM would have gotten a censored neutered show.

tell us how ya really feel

that's a good idea, Chip

The hot talk format kinda died at the end of that decade. Many radio companies deemed it too expensive for the listeners it was getting, so guys like Tom Leykis and Adam Carolla were getting shown the door in favor of way cheaper music formats. Even if it got fewer listeners, music is a fraction of the cost of FM talk.

Opie wanted to dominate terrestrial radio so bad but by then it was a lost cause. He resented Anthony for not caring about it as deeply as he did, but I think Anthony realized that ship had sailed years earlier and all he (Ant) really cared about was putting in his 4-5 hours then going home to his white trash mansion.

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Because they were so much better on AAF

I think they were last place in every market

The Opster may have pumped up the numbas a lil' bit, lil bit'. Just a splash, a lil' taste. You know, fill in the dead spots.