Monday, July 31, 2006

Opie & Anthony Take on Chicago

O&A Replace Rover In Chicago
July 31, 2006By Mike Boyle, Billboard Monitor

"Syndicated morning personalities Gregg “Opie” Hughes and Anthony Cumia will be replacing Shane “Rover” French on CBS talk WCKG (Free FM) beginning Aug. 1.Rover has been on the station for only eight months. He replaced Howard Stern when “The King of All Media” jumped to Sirius Satellite Radio.With this new affiliate, the XM Satellite Radio “Opie & Anthony Show” is now syndicated into 20 terrestrial radio markets via CBS Radio and Citadel Broadcasting. There's also unconfirmed speculation that O&A will be picking up CBS Radio talk KIFR (Free FM), San Francisco, which currently airs Adam Carolla's syndicated morning show.The Chicago Sun-Times says that Rover’s show will continue on his other affiliates, including Cumulus rock WKRK Detroit; Emmis modern rock KPNT St. Louis; CBS Radio’s modern rock WAQZ Cincinnati, rock WAZU Columbus, modern rock WMFS Memphis and modern rock WZNE Rochester; and Nassau Broadcasting rock WPXC Cape Cod. He’ll be based out of his former flagship, CBS Radio modern rock WXRK (92.3 K-Rock) Cleveland..."

Link to full article: HERE