{"id":10654,"date":"2006-04-20T11:34:02","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T16:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/20\/crossed-wires\/"},"modified":"2006-04-20T11:34:02","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T16:34:02","slug":"crossed-wires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/20\/crossed-wires\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossed wires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the rumors about Opie and Anthony&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/64800.htm\">return to commercial radio <\/a>are true,  then the bad boys of radio have come full circle. From outcasts &#8212; CBS banned them a little over a year ago &#8212; to conquering heroes, I read this as another sign of weakness in the subscriber based radio markets. If XM and Sirius are doing well, why license out sanitized versions of O&#038;A to a willing bidder, unless the need for cash is so great that where it comes from is less important than what it says to the market place. Because when you&#8217;re drowning, no point worrying about sharks tearing off your swim trunks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big O&#038;A fan, loved their show when it was on commercial radio, and did not follow them to XM. But if they air again on FCC regulated radio, I&#8217;ll surely listen without signing up for the pay service. In fact, a &#8220;clean&#8221; version of O&#038;A is a major disincentive to subscribing, as what was once free and available, is so once again.<\/p>\n<p>Good for O&#038;A. Hopefully they get two paydays from this &#8212; so far &#8212; rumored arrangment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the rumors about Opie and Anthony&#8217;s return to commercial radio are true, then the bad boys of radio have come full circle. From outcasts &#8212; CBS banned them a little over a year ago &#8212; to conquering heroes, I read this as another sign of weakness in the subscriber based radio markets. If XM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}