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Shocker: Opie and Anthony Could Be Stern's CBS Replacement

Who could have seen this coming? Shock impresario Howard Stern, whose long, storied career on CBS Radio was marked by internecine battles over his on-air improprieties, may be succeeded there by... Opie and Anthony, the country's best-known shock-jock team. This was made possible--some would say necessary--by the failure of the talent CBS hired to replace Stern when he moved on to Sirius Satellite Radio earlier this year. His successors, David Lee Roth and Adam Corolla, each operating in separate markets, have been unable to capture audience. Roth's show in particular has been a train wreck. If the deal happens, it would mean that Opie and Anthony (Gregg Hughes and Anthony Cumi), who currently have a show on XM satellite radio, would be playing both sides of the aisle--doing a terrestrial radio show in the morning, then moving to another studio to handle chores at XM. CBS would even promote their XM program, reports The New York Times. "Some analysts saw the deal between XM and CBS as a possible harbinger of more content-sharing deals between terrestrial and satellite radio," the Times says this morning. "From the beginning," says Sean Ross, a radio analyst with Edison Media Research, "there was always a long view that one day satellite radio could be not a competitor, but an extension."

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