Why was the Opie And Anthony show cancelled?
N.Y. shock jocks show canceled Opie and Anthony fired for inciting vulgar acts in church Issue date: 8/23/02 Section: News PrintEmail DoubleClick Any Word Page 1 of 1 The Associated Press NEW YORK — Opie and Anthony are over and out. The New York-based shock jocks, criticized by Catholic groups for broadcasting a live account of a couple allegedly having sex in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, had their nationally syndicated show canceled Thursday. “Based on recent events, the Opie and Anthony Show has been canceled, and will be replaced by other programming beginning Friday,” WNEW-FM said in a statement. The station, owned by Infinity Broadcasting, offered no further comment. The pair had been pulled off the airwaves Monday, three days after the stunt was aired. The cancellation was announced shortly after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell directed the agency’s enforcement bureau to investigate the broadcast. The FCC had been flooded with hundreds of complaints about
Full report at Foxnews: ‘Opie and Anthony Show’ Cancelled After Sex Broadcast WASHINGTON — The “Opie and Anthony” show, WNEW-FM’s popular afternoon drive-time program, has been cancelled after its disk jockeys allegedly broadcast a live, eyewitness account of a couple having sex in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a WNEW Radio spokesperson has told Fox News. Unnamed new programming will replace the program beginning tomorrow. The nation’s top communications regulator also ordered an investigation Thursday into complaints about the broadcast. A Virginia couple was arrested Aug. 15 after allegedly having sex in a vestibule just a few feet from worshippers in the landmark Manhattan church. The encounter was described as it happened during the “Opie and Anthony” show, WNEW-FM’s popular afternoon drive-time program. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell directed the agency’s enforcement bureau to begin an investigation immediately, spokesman David Fiske said. If the FCC finds th
