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It has come to my attention VICE is planning on doing another soft-shoe baby's first documentary about something I have too much autistic knowledge about. This is a preemptive thread attacking a show that I have not watched. But I'm willing to bet they will not include 100% of the full context.
Here is the actual timeline, not as much info on the satellite side but this should be almost everything on FM: @LingerLonger please fill any gaps.
1981 - Opie breaks into radio in Rochester as an 18 year old intern for Brother Wease, who is Opie's mentor. Stern was still doing Hop-Along Howie in obscurity up until a year or 2 into Opie's career.
Mid 1980's - Stern becomes highly successful. A day laborer named Anthony is a huge fanboy for Stern, who mocks Brother Wease's young daughter and Wease for getting cancer.
1994 - Opie gets a night show on Long Island, meets song parody man Anthony (huge Stern fanboy who imitates his voice for a few years)
- Anthony enters a contest on Stern, gets thrown out because he mentioned Opie's name. Stern bashes Opie after bababooey calls Opie a "copycat."
[Note: Neither Opie nor Anthony have uttered a negative word about Stern. We are now at Stern taking 2 huge shots at Opie with 0 response.]
1995 - Opie negotiates Anthony into a higher tax bracket and a new career in Boston. When Stern is in the news, O&A do mention him and joke as they would any celebrity, but they never trash him personally, like he does to them.
1998 - Opie plans to get himself and Anthony fired in Boston to continue contract negotiation with Infinity to go to New York City. Infinity tells O&A they can pick which NYC station to join... O&A want K-Rock. Stern vetoes it and runs to Mel whining to keep O&A off K-Rock. They throw O&A on WNEW. It takes 1 year for them to flush out music listeners, earn legit radio industry awards, and build an audience of creeps and retards, like Stern. O&A mentions they are being called copycats, thieves, fanboys, etc. by someone who works for the same company as them, and poke fun at Stern for "inventing everything."
1999 - Infinity (parent company of K-Rock & WNEW) suggests Howard mornings and O&A afternoons airing on the same stations all over U.S.A. in syndication, which Stern refuses and begins to openly trash O&A as thieves, copies, and clones on the air. However, when O&A attack back, Howard stops talking about them completely.
October 1999 - Stern announces his divorce, rather than mock him for crying, O&A give Stern credit for how he handled the announcement.
January 2000: - O&A openly say that they don't want to move to mornings because they are too pussy to compete against Howard Stern just yet.
March 2000 - After being told by Infinity to play nice with Howard, O&A tried to attend the press conference for Son of the Beach. Stern threw a bitch fit from his limo when someone told him O&A were in the crowd to support him. Stern refused to go into his own press conference, delaying it by half hour, until O&A got kicked out.
- Stern runs to WNEW boss Ken Stevens and "warns" him about O&A and tried to get them to never talk about Stern. Opie made this claim for years, and Howard confirmed it years later to Sean Hannity. Howard actually admitted he did this. Howard remained free to bash O&A on his show, which he did, but he rarely mentioned them by name, to keep them in obscurity.
May 2000 - Howard keeps trashing O&A without mentioning them by name, while O&A have been very vocal about the fact that they can't mention Howard's name without being threatened by their bosses.
December 2000 - Stern's dopey daughter overdoses on X at rival station Z-100 Christmas concert called Jingle-Ball. She was only 14 years old. Divorced Howie had to go all the way to Long Island to yell at Deborah. O&A read the story on-air. This was the climax of the feud, in my eyes, as it was the perfect irony... Howard attacked Wease's daughter in the 80's, 20 years later Wease's protege got his shots in and mocked Howard's daughter, which made Howard furious.
January 2001 - O&A come back from Christmas vacation told if they fuck up again or mention Howard they are fired on the spot. O&A go 2 years doing a show that improves in quality despite the addition of Jim Norton. Opie continues to carry the grudge against Howard for how he tries to neuter their show, and his past with Wease. The HYPOCRISY being the worst part. Anthony usually lays back like a total pussy scared for his job not mentioning Howard.
April 2002 - Stern stole and copied vernacular like "balloon knot" and a few song parodies he aired with O&A's voices laughing over the song DIRECTLY from their show, and they couldn't mention it. O&A tried to talk about him by calling him "Radio Edit." Stern steals another song parody and the idea of satirizing the new show "MTV Cribs" that O&A were already doing with their own retards. O&A do call this out on the air despite the gag order.
August 2002 - WNEW fires O&A, which Howard celebrates and convinces Infinity to keep them under contract so they cannot compete directly against him in mornings for another company. Howard's strategy was to keep O&A off radio so their names cooled off. This is known to be a fact because Infinity proposed releasing O&A from their contract in 2002 if they signed a waiver agreeing to never, in perpetuity, ever mention Stern or any Infinity employee by name anywhere. They of course did not sign this dopey agreement and just sat out the contract.
August 2004 - O&A sign with XM and their first live show back happens on October 2004... 2 days after their first show, Howard announces that he has signed with SIRIUS Satellite.
- Anthony finally starts ranting about Howard now that there will be no repercussions to his career.
January 2006 - O&A mock Stern's other daughter for doing some horrible play, airing the audio
Here is the actual timeline, not as much info on the satellite side but this should be almost everything on FM: @LingerLonger please fill any gaps.
1981 - Opie breaks into radio in Rochester as an 18 year old intern for Brother Wease, who is Opie's mentor. Stern was still doing Hop-Along Howie in obscurity up until a year or 2 into Opie's career.
Mid 1980's - Stern becomes highly successful. A day laborer named Anthony is a huge fanboy for Stern, who mocks Brother Wease's young daughter and Wease for getting cancer.
1994 - Opie gets a night show on Long Island, meets song parody man Anthony (huge Stern fanboy who imitates his voice for a few years)
- Anthony enters a contest on Stern, gets thrown out because he mentioned Opie's name. Stern bashes Opie after bababooey calls Opie a "copycat."
[Note: Neither Opie nor Anthony have uttered a negative word about Stern. We are now at Stern taking 2 huge shots at Opie with 0 response.]
1995 - Opie negotiates Anthony into a higher tax bracket and a new career in Boston. When Stern is in the news, O&A do mention him and joke as they would any celebrity, but they never trash him personally, like he does to them.
1998 - Opie plans to get himself and Anthony fired in Boston to continue contract negotiation with Infinity to go to New York City. Infinity tells O&A they can pick which NYC station to join... O&A want K-Rock. Stern vetoes it and runs to Mel whining to keep O&A off K-Rock. They throw O&A on WNEW. It takes 1 year for them to flush out music listeners, earn legit radio industry awards, and build an audience of creeps and retards, like Stern. O&A mentions they are being called copycats, thieves, fanboys, etc. by someone who works for the same company as them, and poke fun at Stern for "inventing everything."
1999 - Infinity (parent company of K-Rock & WNEW) suggests Howard mornings and O&A afternoons airing on the same stations all over U.S.A. in syndication, which Stern refuses and begins to openly trash O&A as thieves, copies, and clones on the air. However, when O&A attack back, Howard stops talking about them completely.
October 1999 - Stern announces his divorce, rather than mock him for crying, O&A give Stern credit for how he handled the announcement.
January 2000: - O&A openly say that they don't want to move to mornings because they are too pussy to compete against Howard Stern just yet.
March 2000 - After being told by Infinity to play nice with Howard, O&A tried to attend the press conference for Son of the Beach. Stern threw a bitch fit from his limo when someone told him O&A were in the crowd to support him. Stern refused to go into his own press conference, delaying it by half hour, until O&A got kicked out.
- Stern runs to WNEW boss Ken Stevens and "warns" him about O&A and tried to get them to never talk about Stern. Opie made this claim for years, and Howard confirmed it years later to Sean Hannity. Howard actually admitted he did this. Howard remained free to bash O&A on his show, which he did, but he rarely mentioned them by name, to keep them in obscurity.
May 2000 - Howard keeps trashing O&A without mentioning them by name, while O&A have been very vocal about the fact that they can't mention Howard's name without being threatened by their bosses.
December 2000 - Stern's dopey daughter overdoses on X at rival station Z-100 Christmas concert called Jingle-Ball. She was only 14 years old. Divorced Howie had to go all the way to Long Island to yell at Deborah. O&A read the story on-air. This was the climax of the feud, in my eyes, as it was the perfect irony... Howard attacked Wease's daughter in the 80's, 20 years later Wease's protege got his shots in and mocked Howard's daughter, which made Howard furious.
January 2001 - O&A come back from Christmas vacation told if they fuck up again or mention Howard they are fired on the spot. O&A go 2 years doing a show that improves in quality despite the addition of Jim Norton. Opie continues to carry the grudge against Howard for how he tries to neuter their show, and his past with Wease. The HYPOCRISY being the worst part. Anthony usually lays back like a total pussy scared for his job not mentioning Howard.
April 2002 - Stern stole and copied vernacular like "balloon knot" and a few song parodies he aired with O&A's voices laughing over the song DIRECTLY from their show, and they couldn't mention it. O&A tried to talk about him by calling him "Radio Edit." Stern steals another song parody and the idea of satirizing the new show "MTV Cribs" that O&A were already doing with their own retards. O&A do call this out on the air despite the gag order.
August 2002 - WNEW fires O&A, which Howard celebrates and convinces Infinity to keep them under contract so they cannot compete directly against him in mornings for another company. Howard's strategy was to keep O&A off radio so their names cooled off. This is known to be a fact because Infinity proposed releasing O&A from their contract in 2002 if they signed a waiver agreeing to never, in perpetuity, ever mention Stern or any Infinity employee by name anywhere. They of course did not sign this dopey agreement and just sat out the contract.
August 2004 - O&A sign with XM and their first live show back happens on October 2004... 2 days after their first show, Howard announces that he has signed with SIRIUS Satellite.
- Anthony finally starts ranting about Howard now that there will be no repercussions to his career.
January 2006 - O&A mock Stern's other daughter for doing some horrible play, airing the audio
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