Sirius XM has fired Anthony Cumia of the shock jock team with their own SXM channel after some seemingly-racist remarks made on Twitter after an African-American woman objected to him taking her photo in Times Square:
http://www.thewrap.com/anthony-cumia-opie-fired-siriusxm/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=contactology Cumia says that he will discuss "the truth" on his "Compound" streaming video podcast next week in a tweet that included "f--k Sirius." Opie & Anthony were hired by XM after WNEW-FM in New York fired them in 2002 over a stunt where a couple participating in a contest were having faux sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral with their encouragement. When Sirius and XM merged in 2008, they were given an obvious secondary status behind Howard Stern on the service's personality lineup in the shock jock category, something that they seem to have accepted until now. No indication yet from anyone if Gregg "Opie" Hughes will continue by himself or with a new partner--"The Opie & Anthony Channel" is still on SXM's listings as channel 206. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
