O&A have always been kind of phony in the sense that they seem to crave that mainstream attention, but want to be "bad" at the same time. That's why they came back to regular radio, they want more listeners. They've never needed to be unleashed on satellite, their show was always suited just fine to regular radio. They only got booted because of the crackdown on anything sexual after janet jackson intentionally showed her breast.
If that never happened, O&A would never have been taken off the air. XM was just them getting back in the spotlight to audition for regular radio and prove themselves. Take what, 2 years off and come back like nothing happened, that's how they got back on regular radio and that's exactly what they wanted from the get-go.
Though of course here in cleveland we're the only ones who don't get O&A in the morning, we get them 2-5 I guess. Makes sense to them because O&A ruled afternoons here before they were taken off the air, but it kind of screws up the way the deal is supposed to work and keeps my radio off in the mornings still...