If like you say if they didn't give it much thought then it means that hoppie and doppies numbers were very bad. Anyways there gone and its time to move on. Good luck with there tweeter and blog.
That's all either of us have been saying. Keep an open mind here & put personal feelings about the show aside or whether you think they are jerks. All that matters was that they had a huge audience, and that audience will largely follow them to the next platform.
Pre-merger days, O&A were hired by XM to anchor its talk content. Howard was hired by Sirius to do the same over there. Howard has a much bigger brand impact than O&A, that's indisputable.
Understand that both Stern & O&A now share the same fan base. And, when the companies merged, their fan bases overlapped, especially because Stern only does shows about 3 days/wk, and only 9 months a year. So you have whatever people who signed up for XM solely for O&A, PLUS, whoever they've culled from the Stern audience.
Those are the people who are most effected by this decision. It's a shame b/c none of this needed to happen, but so it goes.
Sirius will be fine in the long run, O&A will move on -- but O&A will bring their audience with them. The free market will dictate what happens next, but it's undeniable that this will have/is having an immediate, if not short-term, negative impact on Sirius.
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