{"id":458334,"date":"2025-12-19T18:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458334\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:53:12","slug":"philadelphia-flyers-suspend-radio-broadcaster-for-inappropriate-hot-mic-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458334\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers suspend radio broadcaster for inappropriate hot mic comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Flyers have suspended play-by-play radio broadcaster Tim Saunders after he was caught making an inappropriate comment on a hot mic. <\/p>\n

The incident happened during Thursday’s radio broadcast of the Flyers game against the Buffalo Sabres. <\/p>\n

Saunders tossed to what he thought would be a commercial break for the NHL match, and after a brief period of silence, he uttered a crude reference to oral sex. <\/p>\n

His broadcast partner, Todd Fedoruk, alerted Saunders.<\/p>\n

“I think we\u2019re still on the air, Tim,” Fedoruk said.<\/p>\n

Saunders laughed and said, “No we’re not, are we?”<\/p>\n

The Flyers addressed Saunders’ distasteful comment and announced his suspension in a statement posted to X on Friday morning.<\/a><\/p>\n

“These remarks do not reflect the standards of conduct or values we expect from anyone associated with our organization,” the team wrote.<\/p>\n

“Effective immediately, the Flyers, along with our radio partners, 97.5 The Fanatic, have issued a two-game suspension while we address this matter with all parties involved,” the statement added.<\/p>\n

The team also apologized to those affected by Saunders’ comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers have suspended play-by-play radio broadcaster Tim Saunders after he was caught making an inappropriate comment…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":458335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-458334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115747750297258585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}