He was obviously trying to push Jim out the door. Gregg wanted to be the star of the show, otherwise he would have went to bat for Cumia, and we'd probably have only gotten 2 weeks of Opie Radio and then 10 hours of great Ant bashing material after.
But Opie wanted Jim out eventually, he wanted the audience to forget about him, he genuinely thought that he was the integral part and he could replace everyone and get top billing.
Well, he got it. You're the star now, stupid. Let's see you keep a fucking audience.
I just love that Opie thought he was the star of the show, and the other guys were holding him back. In the end, he won't even make it 3 years by himself. How pathetic.
I was just listening to an episode from 2011 or so in which Jimmy talks about how KRock wanted to fire Jimmy. That whole situation reeked of Opie selling Jimmy out. Sounded like the coach of some shitty team blaming and firing the hitting coach or offensive coordinator because management didn't like that the team wasn't winning enough. Jimmy absolves Opie of blame, but that situation smelled like Titty Boy blaming Jimmy to management but then letting management be the bad guys with Jimmy. There's even a part in which Jimmy talks about the ratings sucked, so they wanted Jimmy to come in at 8 from now on and only appear on satellite. Opie tried to correct Jimmy by pretending the ratings were actually good.
The only way I'd believe that is if they wanted a revolving comic in like they did when Norton was doing Lucky Louie. Not "the audience says they only want Opie and Anthony."
Opie tried to correct Jimmy by pretending the ratings were actually good.
They were terrible. At their peak on WNEW in early 2001 they did a 6 share. They were struggling to keep a 1 on Free FM.
If the ratings were any good Opie would have talked about it. He always talked about WNEW ratings. On Free FM maybe they mentioned they did much better than David Lee Roth when they were new, but there was no bragging.
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n/a NumeroOtto 2017-06-06
it never failed the opester
n/a panasonictooth 2017-06-06
You can let a horse miss you, but you can't make it miss.
n/a Single_Action_Army 2017-06-06
Huh
n/a breadmoccasin 2017-06-06
He was obviously trying to push Jim out the door. Gregg wanted to be the star of the show, otherwise he would have went to bat for Cumia, and we'd probably have only gotten 2 weeks of Opie Radio and then 10 hours of great Ant bashing material after.
But Opie wanted Jim out eventually, he wanted the audience to forget about him, he genuinely thought that he was the integral part and he could replace everyone and get top billing.
Well, he got it. You're the star now, stupid. Let's see you keep a fucking audience.
n/a Doc_McCoy79 2017-06-06
I just love that Opie thought he was the star of the show, and the other guys were holding him back. In the end, he won't even make it 3 years by himself. How pathetic.
n/a breadmoccasin 2017-06-06
How many people in radio history were so fucking bad that fans of the show they were on EDITED THEIR VOICES OUT of the fucking show.
Not because they were criminals or anything else, just because they were fucking awful to listen to?
n/a OpieCouldaBeenAModel 2017-06-06
I was just listening to an episode from 2011 or so in which Jimmy talks about how KRock wanted to fire Jimmy. That whole situation reeked of Opie selling Jimmy out. Sounded like the coach of some shitty team blaming and firing the hitting coach or offensive coordinator because management didn't like that the team wasn't winning enough. Jimmy absolves Opie of blame, but that situation smelled like Titty Boy blaming Jimmy to management but then letting management be the bad guys with Jimmy. There's even a part in which Jimmy talks about the ratings sucked, so they wanted Jimmy to come in at 8 from now on and only appear on satellite. Opie tried to correct Jimmy by pretending the ratings were actually good.
n/a bonniesretardsister 2017-06-06
The only way I'd believe that is if they wanted a revolving comic in like they did when Norton was doing Lucky Louie. Not "the audience says they only want Opie and Anthony."
They were terrible. At their peak on WNEW in early 2001 they did a 6 share. They were struggling to keep a 1 on Free FM.
If the ratings were any good Opie would have talked about it. He always talked about WNEW ratings. On Free FM maybe they mentioned they did much better than David Lee Roth when they were new, but there was no bragging.
n/a johnnymcjonny 2017-06-06
I remember that episode and it seemed so obvious Opie was definitely involved in those talks and him and Jimmy were both pretending he wasn't.
n/a Seanpwwww 2017-06-06
He wanted to cut Jim's hours and replace him with "his guys"
n/a segasarnold 2017-06-06
Only reason I started and kept listening to this show was because of that sweet young meaty breasted zilch
n/a revt1 2017-06-06
Pro Raqio tips.