New York ? Opie and Anthony are over and out.

The New York-based shock jocks, criticized by Catholic groups for broadcasting a live account of a couple allegedly having sex in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, had their nationally syndicated show canceled Thursday.

“Based on recent events, the Opie and Anthony Show has been canceled, and will be replaced by other programming beginning Friday,” WNEW-FM said in a statement.

The pair had been pulled off the airwaves Monday, three days after the stunt was aired.

The cancellation was announced shortly after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell directed the agency’s enforcement bureau to investigate the broadcast. The FCC had been flooded with hundreds of complaints about the show.

The decision to sack the shock jocks was hailed by William Donohue, head of the 350,000-member Catholic League.

The cancellation came one day after the Virginia couple suspected of the sex stunt appeared in a Manhattan courtroom on charges of public lewdness. Brian Florence, 37, of Quantico, Va., and Loretta Lynn Harper, 35, of Alexandria, Va., were due back in court Oct. 2.

The couple was arrested Aug. 15 after they allegedly had sex in a cathedral vestibule just a few feet from worshippers. The radio show’s stunt was part of a regular feature where couples could earn points and win a trip for having sex in risky places.