Opie and Anthony

Opie and Anthony was an American talk radio show that featured Gregg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia, until Cumia's firing in July 2014. Stand-up comedian Jim Norton also served as co-host. Following Cumia's firing, Hughes and Norton continued on with a show that airs in the United States and Canada on XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio under the title Opie with Jim Norton, while Cumia started a subscription-based video internet show at his website under the title The Anthony Cumia Show.

Based in New York City, The Opie & Anthony Show began in 1995 on WAAF in Boston, Massachusetts, and later moved to WNEW-FM in New York with syndication on other stations, until being canceled in 2002. After exhausting their contract with their previous employers, which kept them from broadcasting on WNEW-FM while also preventing them from appearing on radio elsewhere, they moved to XM Satellite Radio in 2004.

On April 26, 2006, Opie and Anthony returned to the terrestrial airwaves after a four-year absence, replacing CBS Radio's short-lived David Lee Roth Show, which aired mainly on the eastern coast of the United States. The terrestrial broadcast of the show ran until March 9, 2009. The team was terminated by WXRK when it flipped formats from rock to Top 40. In July 2014, Cumia was fired by SiriusXM. The show resumed on July 14, 2014 without Cumia as Hughes and Norton retained their hosting duties. In October 2014, Hughes and Norton renewed their contract with SiriusXM to continue the show.

Anthony

The name Anthony is derived from the Latin name Antonius. A variant of the given name is Antony.

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See Anthony (given name) and Anthony or Anthoney (surname)

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Jim Norton

Jim, Jimmy, or James Norton may refer to:

Anthony Cumia

Anthony Cumia (born April 26, 1961) is an American talk radio broadcaster known for his long association with Gregg "Opie" Hughes, most notably on a series of radio shows named The Opie and Anthony Show or Opie and Anthony from 1995 to 2014. Comedian Jim Norton was a frequent collaborator of the pair. In 2014 he was fired from XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. Soon after that, he started his own video podcast, known as The Anthony Cumia Show.

Early life

Cumia was raised on Long Island, New York, in Elwood and attended John Glenn High School but did not graduate. Before breaking into radio, he was earning a living as a "tin knocker," and began recording comedy songs with his brother Joe.

Radio career

Early years

Opie's Nighttime Attitude, an evening show at WBAB on Long Island, received an entry during an O. J. Simpson parody song contest. The song was titled "Gonna Electric Shock OJ" (sung to the tune of Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay") by the band Rotgut, of which the Cumia brothers were both founding members and the primary creative force. After Joseph Cumia hand-delivered the cassette tape directly to Opie by being persistent with the interns trying have him drop it off, the song was played by Opie and it was a hit. Opie invited the Cumia brothers to the studio to play live in September 1994. Soon afterward, Hughes and Cumia became a radio team. Cumia, prior to meeting up with Opie, always wanted to get into radio, after listening to his idols Howard Stern and Don Imus.

Sirius XM Holdings

Sirius XM Holdings is an American broadcasting company that provides three satellite radio services operating in the United States, Sirius Satellite Radio, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius XM Radio. The company also has a Canadian subsidiary called Sirius XM Canada, an affiliate company that provides Sirius and XM service in Canada. At the end of 2013, Sirius reorganized their corporate structure, which made Sirius XM Radio Inc. a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings Inc. Sirius XM Radio was formed after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the acquisition of XM Satellite Radio Holding, Inc. by Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. on July 29, 2008, 17 months after the companies first proposed the merger. The merger brought the combined companies a total of more than 18.5 million subscribers based on current subscriber numbers on the date of merging. The deal was valued at $3.3 billion, not including debt. Through Q4 2015, Sirius XM has 29.6 million subscribers.