Opie and Anthony Timeline

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The following is a timeline of significant events in the history of The Opie and Anthony Show.

  • 1982 - 1986 - Opie does radio on 89.3FM WGSU, SUNY-Geneseo.
  • 1988 - 1989 - Opie interns for Brother Wease at 96.5FM WCMF, Rochester.
  • 1989 - 1991 - Opie does radio on 103.3FM WUFX, Buffalo.
  • 1992 - 1995 - Opie hosts The Opie Show on 102.3FM WBAB, Long Island.
  • August, 1994 - Anthony enters the Rotgut song "Gonna Electric Shock O.J." into the WBAB song parody contest. The song was a hit on Opie's show, and Rotgut was invited to play live numerous times. Thus began Anthony's friendship with Opie.
  • September 14, 1994 - Anthony first appears on The Opie Show along with Brother Joe. As O&A's friendship grew, discussions of a possible duo show began to take shape.
  • December, 1994 - Anthony appears on The Howard Stern Show as a contestant in the "Jack Off" Jackie Martling impression contest (which he nailed).
  • February, 1995 - Discovered by Ron Valeri, Program Director for WAAF Boston, Opie and Anthony got their first break. They packed up and moved to Boston to begin their careers.
  • March 13, 1995 - Opie and Anthony's first show on WAAF.
  • March, 1995 - Ron Valeri leaves WAAF, and turns over control of the bbboys to PD Dave Dickless (Douglass).
  • April, 1995 - Dave Dickless makes his first attempt to split up the duo.
  • May, 1995 - Whip'em Out Wednesday (WOW), the greatest radio promotion of all time, is born.
  • May, 1995 - June, 1997 - WOW gains huge popularity, but also gains much negative fury from women's rights and gay rights groups.
  • June, 1997 - Dave Dickless and Bruce Mittman decide to pull the plug on the WOW promotion under pressure from rights groups and the State Police. Opie and Anthony have other ideas.
  • April 1, 1998 - Opie and Anthony's April Fools Day Prank on Mayor Menino of Boston. For their annual April Fools prank, Opie called a severely hung over Anthony bright and early with the idea "Let's tell all of Boston that Mayor Menino died in a fiery car crash!". Anthony agreed. The fallout from this prank was far greater than anyone had anticipated. It gained citywide attention and news coverage, and was made worse by the fact that Mayor Menino could not be reached at the time because he was in the air on his way back from Florida.
  • April 2, 1998 - Opie and Anthony's last live show on WAAF. They were suspended without pay that day. Despite ridiculous attempts by Dave Dickless to patch things up with such suggestions as a public pieing, and donating pies to terminally ill children, the damage had been done.
  • April 9, 1998 - Opie and Anthony are fired.
  • June, 1998 - The bbboys are signed to legendary New York rock station 102.7 WNEW. Over the next year, they were locked in battle with the other DJs, due to their interjection of humor between songs. "Shut up and play the music" was heard all too often.
  • June 26, 1998 - Opie and Anthony's first show on WNEW.
  • September, 1999 - WNEW drops the Rock format altogether, and focuses soley on "Hot Talk". Opie and Anthony get their afternoon-drive talk radio slot, and O&A version 2.0 begins.
  • September 13, 1999 - WNEW flips to "FM Talk @ 102.7".
  • 2000 - As the show gains rampant popularity, more and more comedians appear on and become friends of the show. O&A hit Number 1 in the NY market afternoon drive slot.
  • November 30, 2000 - The Voyeur Bus makes headlines, as Mayor Rudy Giuliani calls for the arrest of all those aboard the glass-walled bus, including comedians Jim Norton and Lewis Black.
  • May, 2001 - Opie and Anthony's contract is up for renewal, but no one at Infinity Broadcasting is sure how to proceed. On one hand, there is major controversy surrounding some of the radio bits and promotions, like Sex for Sam, the 55 gallon drum challenge, and the Homeless Shopping Spree, but on the other hand, the outstanding ratings and the duo's confidence in their show suggested that the next logical step would have to be syndication.
  • June 11, 2001 - After taking a 2 week break while their contract was in limbo, Opie and Anthony returned to the airwaves, now syndicated to 94.1 WYSP in Philadelphia. Over the next 6 months, syndication was expanded to 18 additional markets, including WJFK in Washington, DC, and WBCN in Boston.
  • August, 2001 - Opie and Anthony return to the Boston airwaves, syndicated on WBCN, the rival station of their former home, WAAF.
  • August 15, 2002 - During the Third Annual Sex for Sam competition, a couple was allegedly caught having "Pew-Rocking Sex" in Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Both of the contestants, as well as their spotter, Paul Mercurio were arrested and taken downtown. Opie and Anthony both knew immediately that this was the big one, and they would most likely be out of jobs.
  • August 16, 2002 - Opie and Anthony go on live, alas for the last time. Neither of the bbboys were allowed to speak of the incident, referring to it only as the Peanut Butter and Jelly incident. The first thing broadcast over the air that day was Opie uttering the words "We're F-'ed". The last words were "Your Mom's Box".
  • August 22, 2002 - Infinity Broadcasting made the announcement that The Opie and Anthony Show had been cancelled. However, they had not been fired. Infinity continued to pay out the remaining two years of their contract. Unfortunately, due to a "No Compete" clause in the contract, O&A were not allowed to work elsewhere until the contract expired.
  • 2002 - 2004 - Rumors began swirling as to what O&A's next move would be. Some spectulated a jump to Clear Channel Communications, while others saw a move to the relatively new technology called Satellite Radio. This was deemed to be the more logical choice, since it is exempt from FCC regulations.
  • August 1, 2004 - The Infinity contract expires.
  • August 3, 2004 - Opie and Anthony sign with XM Satellite Radio.
  • October 1, 2004 - The contract's "No Compete" clause expires, and a live "Ungagged" Q&A segment is taped at XM Studios in Washington, DC.
  • October 4, 2004 - Amid technical difficulties, the first episode of O&A version 3.0 is broadcast to a small, exclusive XM Satellite Radio listening audience, on High Voltage, XM202. Due to XM's fears of protests and sponsor pullout, O&A are available only on a Premium tier, which means it is not available to anyone who has not specifically subscribed to the channel.
  • October 13, 2004 - Jim Norton first tells the Monster Rain story.
  • November 17, 2004 - Opie tells his "Bomb the DK House" fraternity story where he had to grab marshmallows with his ass cheeks.
  • February 1, 2005 - Dee Dee's first appearance on the show.
  • April 2, 2005 - Satisfied by the better than expected subscription numbers, and the lack of retribution over the availability of The Opie and Anthony Show, XM decides to make the show free to all subscribers.
  • September 12, 2005 - Ron and Fez becomes the first show since O&A to air on XM202.
  • December 2, 2005 - The second annual Eggnog Drinking Contest.
  • April 24, 2006 - Opie and Anthony return to terrestrial radio to announce they're replacing David Lee Roth in 7 CBS Radio markets.
  • April 26, 2006 - First official show on CBS Radio.
  • June 21, 2006 - The second WOW Motorcycle Ride.
  • July 25, 2006 - Opie introduces the world to his fascination with buttery beats.
  • August 3, 2006 - After having her morning show tooled on by O&A, Whoopi Goldberg makes a surprise appearance in studio.
  • August 31, 2006 - Opie and Anthony make their first appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
  • September 1, 2006 - Roland famously screws up the pronunciation of Danny Bonaduce's name.
  • October 23, 2006 - Shawnee Smith comes in to promote Saw III, and Anthony gets tooled on for doting on her during the interview.
  • October 31, 2006 - The Halloween Party hijacked by Flavor Flav.
  • December 1, 2006 - The third annual Eggnog Drinking Contest, where The Baby Bird took place.
  • December 16, 2006 - Homeless Shopping Spree 2006.
  • February 5, 2007 - E-Rock gets a Brazilian waxing and screams and curses during the whole thing.
  • February 13, 2007 - O&A fuck with Steven Backman, the Toothpick Guy.
  • March 29, 2007 - Anthony calls Mancow's show to attack him, but fails miserably.
  • April 4, 2007 - Don Imus makes his "nappy-headed hos" comment. As the backlash against him grew, O&A spoke out for Imus and against his detractors.
  • April 11, 2007 - Don Imus fired by MSNBC.
  • April 12, 2007 - Don Imus fired by CBS Radio.
  • May 9, 2007 - Homeless Charlie makes comments about fucking Condoleezza Rice, First Lady Laura Bush, and the Queen of England.
  • May 11, 2007 - O&A apologize on-air for the Homeless Charlie comments.
  • May 15, 2007 - XM suspends O&A for 30 days. The Pests respond immediately by cancelling their XM service, smashing their radios, and organizing protests.
  • May 16, 2007 - Rich Vos tells the story of wearing short shorts for his drug dealer.
  • May 24, 2007 - O&A's flagship station WXRK goes back to being a rock station.
  • June 15, 2007 - O&A return to broadcasting live on XM.
  • July 11, 2007 - The third WOW Motorcycle Ride.
  • July 18, 2007 - Pat Duffy brushes his teeth with dog shit.
  • September 5, 2007 - Opie and E-Rock both announce their engagements.
  • October 5, 2007 - Anthony falls asleep during the show.
  • November 30, 2007 - 9/11 Truthers show up during The Walk Over.
  • December 3, 2007 - Ken Burns gets interviewed on the show; Jeffrey Ross gets the shaft.
  • January 16, 2008 - O&A reveal they were scammed with the Delaney interview.
  • February 14, 2008 - Victoria Zdrok appears on the show for the first time.
  • February 20, 2008 - O&A play the Dave Rabbit tapes for the first time.
  • February 29, 2008 - East Side Dave shoves a dildo up his ass.
  • April 4, 2008 - Big A tongue scraping.
  • April 23, 2008 - The New York Post prints the false story about Opie's fiancĂ©e having a sex tape, and Opie goes off on the air about it.
  • May 15, 2008 - Jill Nicolini announces to Anthony that she is available and "interested".
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