Opie & Anthony’s Anthony Cumia Returning To New York Radio On WABC.

More than a decade since his departure from SiriusXM, former “Opie and Anthony” talk show co-host Anthony Cumia is following the route of fellow satellite broadcaster “Cousin Brucie” Morrow, having announced his return to terrestrial radio in New York on Red Apple Media talk WABC (770).

“Looks like I’m the newest member of the WABC Talk Radio family,” Cumia, who has hosted a digital media show on his subscription-based Compound Media since 2014, teased on an X post. “This will not affect my show on CompoundCensored at all. Looking very forward to my triumphant return to broadcast radio in NYC.”

Along with Cousin Brucie, Cumia will join other longtime New York radio personalities on WABC, such as weekend host Curtis Sliwa, and Sid Rosenberg, whose “Sid & Friends” morning show he guested on earlier this month.

“We’re excited at the overwhelmingly positive response Anthony’s tweet generated from his fans, who clearly want him back on radio,” a spokesperson for WABC tells Inside Radio. “As he said in that tweet, details about show days and times to come.”

Controversy has followed Cumia, a comedian known for his impressions of celebrities and other radio personalities, dating back to when he was partnered with Gregg “Opie” Hughes on Boston’s WAAF. The pair was fired in 1998 for an April Fool’s bit falsely suggesting then-Boston Mayor Tom Menino had died. After moving to New York’s WNEW, they were fired again in 2002 after two listeners tried to have sex in St. Patrick’s Cathedral as part of an on-air stunt. After 10 years on SiriusXM, Cumia was fired in 2014 for sharing racially charged tweets after claiming to be the victim of an attack by a Black woman.

On his weekday show on Compound Media, Cumia suggested he had been “shunned from the business” until WABC. “Some people tell you it’s not a big deal, it’s AM radio, radio’s dead,” Cumia said. “It’s not the truth of the matter. [WABC is] very cognizant of what the people want. They’re very old-school radio. They wanna win... they wanna make some noise.”