Tuesday was a big day for fans of the Opie and Anthony Show, it marked the first day for two brand new shows helmed by former hosts of the show, reports theinterrobang.com.
By now everyone knows that Gregg “Opie” Hughes and Anthony Cumia split up after SiriusXM fired Cumia in July 2014. Anthony started his own podcast network, Compound Radio, almost immediately after leaving SiriusXM, and fans were stunned when Gregg “Opie” Hughes stayed on with SiriusXM with the show’s third host, Jim Norton. Since 2014, a contentious “he said/he said” relationship has remained in place with both Opie and Anthony firing shots – some vicious- at each other but never communicating directly.
As for Opie and Jim, there’s been a cold war simmering while they tried to make a go of a co-hosting partnership without Anthony. The cold war finally ended in September with official news that the Opie with Jim Norton show was ending, the two hosts were going their separate ways, and each would host a different radio show on the same channel.
Tuesday, both new shows premiered. Jim Norton and Sam Roberts debuted their new morning show, taking the 8am to 11am time slot, and Opie debuted his solo show in the afternoon from 3pm to 6pm, a timeslot that by the way competes with Cumia’s podcast show that airs from 4pm to 6pm.
There’s plenty to report but the big surprise largely eclipsed all other news. Around 2pm, Opie went to the phones on his show and took a call from “HG From Long Island” that turned out to be a call from Cumia, live from his own show.
WARNING: Rough language..
It was the first time the two have spoken since Cumia’s firing, and they stayed on the phone for forty minutes along with Paul Mercurio (who was in studio with Cumia) and Rich Vos (who was in studio with Hughes). The conversation was mostly amicable, and fans remarked that it felt like old times with the exception of a few moments where things seemed like they could get tense.
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