Opie and Anthony

Opie (Gregg Hughes, May 23, 1965 - ) and Anthony (Anthony Cumia, April 1961 - ) are the hosts of the XM Satellite Radio program 'The Opie and Anthony Show.' The show is based in New York City and airs on XM channel 202. The show was previously on WNEW-FM in New York, and was earlier on WAAF-FM in Boston (whom they obsessively insult).

Radio show (high/low)lights

• Most famously, they created Whip'em Out Wednesdays (WOW) in May 1995, where they encourage women to flash motorists who have a WOW bumper sticker. In the absence of a bumper sticker, Opie and Anthony have suggested writing WOW on their dirty cars using their hands.
• They also invented the Tuesday Night Hummer Club where they encouraged their female listeners to perform fellatio on their significant others.
• Among their frequent bits include "What Did We Learn", where the listeners call in during the last few minutes of the show and say what they learned from the shockjocks that day.
• They were fired in Boston after they pulled an April Fool's Day prank in 1998, telling their listeners the Mayor of Boston (Thomas Menino) died in a car accident while the mayor was away vacationing in Florida and was unable to be contacted. The station WAAF suggested that to remedy the situation the "shock jock duo" have pies thrown at them while being held in townsquare stocks. The idea was summarily dismissed and the duo were later fired.
• Several members of their crew (including frequent guest Lewis Black and third member of the show, Jimmy Norton and then producer Rick Delgado) were arrested for being on the see-through "Teen" Voyeur Bus where six young teenage women were "flashing" all over Manhattan (2000).
• Early in their tenure for WNEW, they held, "Homeless Shopping Spree" wherein a dozen of New York's homeless were given a stipend and taken to the posh Short Hills Mall, in Short Hills New Jersey. The mall's reaction was to close down many of the nicer stores and eventually force the 12 homeless men and the growing crowd out of the mall.
• While on WNEW O&A made a rare professional friendship with Ron and Fez of "The Ron and Fez Show." Ron and Fez followed O&A on WNEW. O&A frequently appeared on the Ron and Fez Show. These came to be known as the AFRO Shows (Anthony-Fez-Ron-Opie).
• They consider themselves professional enemies of Mancow (whose fansites have recently become victims of "THE PESTS"), Tom Leykis, Rocko, Howard Stern, Don and Mike and many others.
• One of the more popular in-studio contests was "The 55 gallon drum challenge" wherein women dressed in bra and panties were placed in 55 gallon drums and had various food products and non-human waste materials dumped on them.
• From 2001-2002 the duo was syndicated on WJFK in Washington D.C., where they took the #1 rated timeslot down to 18th place in one book but in the subsequent books became #1 in males 18-35. When "Sex For Sam 3" happened they were removed from all of their markets, including Washington.
• They are most widely known for being the "Wacky D.J.'s Who Had The Sex in The Church Stunt." This stemmed from an annual Sex For Sam contest, where listeners would perform sexual acts in different places around New York City at specific famous landmarks or tourist attractions for points, the winners being awarded a trip to Boston, MA and a party hosted by Jim Koch at the Sam Adams brewery (prize was never awarded as the brewery attempted to distance themselves from Opie & Anthony and the "Sex for Sam" controversy).
• When "Sex For Sam 3" took place on August 15 2002, Opie and Anthony were suspended for the remainder of their contract (more than 2 years), and the show was cancelled. WNEW and Infinity Broadcasting were in danger of losing their FCC license over an incident where a couple allegedly had sex at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Opie and Anthony claim they were within the FCC guidelines for that day and claim that FCC rules are subjective and dynamic. This was one of the first instances of the FCC cracking down on TV/radio broadcasts due to susposed indecency.
• On OCtober 4 2004, Opie and Anthony returned to the airwaves via XM Satellite Radio, where they control an entire XM Channel, XM202 High Voltage.
• When Howard Stern announced that he was going to be going to Sirius Satellite Radio, he planned a November 2004 rally where he handed out free systems. About 300 O&A listeners attempted to crash the gathering of more than 1,000 Stern supporters, armed with placards and bumper stickers.
• Since returning to radio, they often like to make fun of Scott Peterson, Andrea Yates, Terri Schiavo, and other allegedly tragic criminals and victims in the media.
• During December 2004, Opie and Anthony re-appeared for the first time on commercial FM radio since they were fired from WNEW. WAQX in Syracuse was the first station to bring O&A back to commercial FM radio. The show on WAQX was a rebroadcast of the previous day's show on XM and was edited for content. It aired in the Howard Stern show's morning time slot while he was on vacation.
• On May 19, 2005, as part of their "Assault On The Media" campaign, where listeners are encouraged to get free advertising for the show by holding up signs during live news broadcasts, one of the show's interns, Nathaniel, stepped behind CBS 2 reporter Arthur Chi'en holding an Opie and Anthony poster. He was joined, through sheer coincidence, by Crazy Cabbie of the Howard Stern show, who flipped off the camera. After finishing the last syllable of his report, Chi'en turned to Nathaniel and yelled "What the fuck is your problem, man?" before the studio could cut to the pre-recorded segment of the report. The obscenity was aired live, and despite his apology, Chi'en was fired later that day. Since then, Arthur has been re-hired by WB 11 to do ONLY taped news reports.
• Opie and Anthony refer to their avid fans as "pests", acknowledging their readiness to get under the skin of O & A enemies through assaults on the media, phone, and internet attacks (most recently on the Philips Phile show). The purpose of these assaults is to harrass rival radio shows by flooding their telephone banks with O&A fans, preventing legitimate callers from being able to connect. In addition, the prank callers will frequently attempt to use vulgarity during their calls; since broadcast radio shows cannot air such language, the host is forced to dump large portions of the show, effectively ruining the normal flow of a broadcast. The Philips Phile 'attack' recently was concluded with some fans renting a billboard to memorialize their 'victory'.
• O&A claim to hate the name of their XM channel, "High Voltage" and are trying to get it changed to something else. Internet rumors claim that they have suggested "The Virus"
• On September 12, 2005, Ron and Fez began broadcasting weekdays from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. ET exclusively on High Voltage (XM Channel 202), with an encore at 12 a.m. - 3 a.m. the next morning.
• O&A have stated that, because of the Sex for Sam 3 incident, their contracts with XM Satellite Radio are renewed yearly (they are, as of 2005, renewed through October 2006). They have also stated that if they were doing as bad as their detractors on terrestrial radio claim they are, XM would not have renewed their contracts for 2005-2006.
• On September 2, 2005, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, friends of the show began an online auction of signed memorabilia from their years of collecting miscellaneous stuff. 100% of all funds collected going to the relief efforts down in the Gulf States. So far, the auction has proved a big success, raising over $50,000.