# Opie and Anthony **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 13, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/opie-and-anthony/25815 "2007-03-13T13:19:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 90
**Author:** ![TonyDanza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@TonyDanza](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TonyDanza)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 12:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/opie-and-anthony/25815/90 "2007-05-15T12:24:21Z")
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](http://xmradio.com) or by calling > 1-800-XMRADIO. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/opie-and-anthony/25815)._