The Anthony Cumia Show
| Genre | Talk |
|---|---|
| Running time | 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. , Monday-Thursday |
| Country | United States |
| Home station | Compound Media |
| Starring | Anthony Cumia |
| Air dates | since August 4, 2014 |
| No. of episodes | 483 (As of December 19, 2016) |
| Website | www.AnthonyCumia.com |
The Anthony Cumia Show is an Internet show hosted by American radio personality and broadcaster Anthony Cumia on the Compound Media network. The show launched on August 4, 2014 and is available in audio and high definition video from a studio in his home in Roslyn Heights, New York and, from 2015, a second studio in Manhattan, New York City.
On July 3, 2014, Cumia was fired by SiriusXM, after making a series of tweets, that they deemed racist, following an alleged off-air incident with a black woman on the street. Cumia tweeted that he was punched by the woman while attempting to take a picture in Times Square. The tweets were described by Sirius XM as "racially-charged and hate-filled". Cumia stated on the Saturday, July 12 episode of Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld that he was not going to apologize for the incident.
At the time of Cumia's firing SiriusXM made no comment as to Hughes' possible future with the company at that time. Cumia gave his blessing for the Sirius XM show to continue without him, acknowledging Hughes and Norton's obligation to fulfil their contract with SiriusXM. A relaunched Opie with Jim Norton resumed on July 14, 2014 with Hughes and Norton discussing the incident and noting that The Opie and Anthony Channel was renamed SiriusXM Talk, along with various other alterations by the company in light of the firing. In October 2014, Hughes and Norton signed a new contract to continue the SiriusXM show, which appears on the rebranded Opie Radio channel.
Cumia announced on July 8, 2014, that he would launch a new Internet-based podcast as The Anthony Cumia Show, which began airing in August 2014. This show was kept separate from his old internet radio show Live from the Compound, which Anthony had set up as a hobby, unrelated to his future show in the same studio. Cumia's website later specified that "his live, uncensored HD video podcast" called The Anthony Cumia Show would launch on August 4.
Beginning in August 2014 the show aired exclusively from Cumia's basement studio where he hosted his previous show, Live from the Compound. In 2015, Cumia and his producers announced that they were looking into setting up a studio in New York City in order to secure more guests to appear on the program. Starting in August 2015, the show began broadcasting from a second studio in midtown Manhattan. Cumia stated that this new location would be the primary studio going forward, with some broadcasts from the original Long Island studio on special occasions.
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