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On July 17, 2006, Opie and Anthony signed a deal with Citadel Broadcasting in which the first three hours of the show would be broadcast on nine of Citadel’s rock stations. After an 18-month run on XM, The Opie & Anthony Show began simulcasting on XM Radio and various terrestrial radio stations from 6 am to 9 am EST. From 9 am to 11 am (and on some days up to noon), the show will be broadcast exclusively on XM Radio. XM listeners are able to hear the show uncensored the entire time (except when the main feed is “self-censored” by the hosts), however from the 6-9 slot, the FM-only listeners will hear an FCC-compliant version of the show. In the initial Arbitron ratings released since their move to terrestrial radio, The Opie & Anthony Show doubled Free FM’s ratings in the New York City market in the month of May. In Philadelphia O&A achieved a threefold increase in the month of May over David Lee Roth’s April performance with listeners, ages 18-34. In Boston, they doubled the listeners of all ages and achieved an even larger increase in younger demographics. According to the winter 07 arbitron ratings, O&A have doubled Roth’s ratings with their target of 18- to 34-year-olds. But so far that’s only meant going from 2% to about 4% of the audience, a third of Stern’s old numbers in NYC. Following the Summer 07 Arbitron ratings, O&A’s 18- to 34-year-olds ratings slipped, while their morning drive rating in NYC of 2.1 left them only ahead of sports based WFAN network in the morning. Rockstar Games gave the cast and crew of the show voice roles in the Playstation Portable game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, including Club Soda Kenny as the voice of Derek the Dodo. The only exception was Jimmy Norton because he was already given a voice role in another Rockstar game Bully. On October 23, 2007, WYSP in Philadelphia cut Opie and Anthony from their line-up in favor of rock music, which the station had changed formats to a month prior.