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Opie and Anthony "Pests" Pay For Billboard to Annoy Orlando Radio Host

Dateline: 08/18/05

By Corey Deitz, About.com

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In an amusing consolidation of effort, fans of the "Opie and Anthony Show" pooled together money to purchase a billboard near the studios of WTKS in Orlando to taunt talk show host, Jim Philips.

Fans calling themselves "The O&A Army" collected over $1,000 in a 3 day span to erect a large advertisement along Florida's All American Boulevard in the Orlando-Maitland area.

The billboard read: "Mr. Philips, The Pests win, you lose! Good day sir. The Opie & Anthony Army. Commemorating the PatBattle of O-town."

The ad's text makes reference to a continuing joke in which the hosts, Gregg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia, criticize commercial radio shows; often pointing out their hosts' hypocrisies.

Opie and Anthony then continue the joke by suggesting to the fans (Whom they call "pests") to call the offending shows, in the hopes of disrupting it.

The "pests" proudly boast the billboard they purchased commemorates a successful, multi-day disruption of the "Philips Phile Show" on WTKS, a Clear Channel radio station.

The Opie & Anthony Army admits it has no official affiliation with either the Opie & Anthony Show or XM Satellite Radio.

The Opie and Anthony Show can be heard 24 hours a day on XM Satellite Radio, channel 202, with a live broadcast from 7 A.M. to 11 A.M. Eastern Time, and repeating throughout the day.

- Portions From a PRWEB News Release

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