well, suspended again.
XM Radio Suspends Opie & Anthony
WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – XM Radio announced
today that the company has suspended Gregg “Opie” Hughes and Anthony Cumia,
hosts of “The Opie & Anthony Show” and ceased broadcast of the show for 30
days, effective immediately.
XM Radio deplored the comments aired on “The Opie & Anthony Show” last week.
At the time, the company strongly expressed its views to Opie and Anthony, and
they issued an immediate apology.
Comments made by Opie and Anthony on yesterday’s broadcast put into question
whether they appreciate the seriousness of the matter. The management of XM
Radio decided to suspend Opie and Anthony to make clear that our on-air
talent must take seriously the responsibility that creative freedom requires
of them.
As a company, XM provides customers with tools to control what they listen to
on XM. “The Opie & Anthony Show” appears on one of XM’s explicit language
channels (XL). Whenever a radio is tuned to an explicit language channel, the
letters “XL” continuously appear on the screen. XM frequently mentions on its
explicit language channels that the content may be inappropriate for certain
listeners and tells how to “block” channels that feature this type of
content. Channel blocking is available through xmradio.com or by calling
1-800-XMRADIO.