Sports activities radio host Dan Geronimo fired after sexist ‘Barbie’ feedback towards feminine reporter

Sports activities radio host Michael Sorce, who goes by the title Dan Geronimo on air, was fired by WBIG-FM on Sunday following sexist remarks he made towards a feminine reporter at Washington Commanders coaching camp.

Whereas talking with co-host Crash Younger, Geronimo made several offensive comments about WUSA9 Washington D.C. reporter Sharla McBride, together with shouting, “Hello, Barbie woman” as she walked previous him.

iHeartMedia is the dad or mum firm of WBIG-FM, which signed a three-year partnership with the Commanders in 2022.

“After an inner evaluate, Don Geronimo is now not an worker of WBIG,” iHeartMedia’s D.C. Area president Aaron Hyland mentioned in a statement to the Washington Post. “We take issues of this nature very severely and this habits doesn’t align with our core values.”

Along with the “Barbie” remark, Geronimo yelled, “I believed she was a cheerleader” at McBride.

He continued later within the broadcast when he noticed McBride once more, saying to Younger: “Oh, hey, there’s that chick that you simply thought mentioned tight.”

It’s unclear what “tight” was in reference to.

The Commanders barred Geronimo and Younger from coaching camp Friday whereas investigating the incident, and prohibited the station from airing a beforehand recorded interview with new proprietor Josh Harris.

It’s not clear if Younger was reprimanded as effectively.

“After I heard the feedback made about me on the radio present, I felt extremely insulted and embarrassed,” McBride told ESPN in a statement. “In my 17 years as knowledgeable journalist, I’ve by no means been disrespected in such a blatant method whereas attempting to do my job. Their phrases had been sexist and misogynistic. No lady ought to expertise this within the office, and I respect the Commanders swift response in dealing with this matter.”

The Commanders had been uncovered for having a tradition of sexism and misogyny below earlier proprietor Dan Snyder, who offered the group to an possession group led by Harris earlier in July.

“We’ve got labored onerous to make sure that everybody feels protected and revered in our office, and we took swift motion after we discovered that an worker of our companion iHeart made sexually disparaging remarks to and a few member of the media whereas she was broadcasting reside from coaching camp yesterday,” the team told WUSA9 in a statement Friday.