Houlton Announcers Fired After Making Fun of Overweight Girls
These two should have known better and been better. They didn't know the microphones were live - and that doesn't matter one bit.
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These two should have known better and been better. They didn't know the microphones were live - and that doesn't matter one bit.
“They knew the deal. It’s a colossal failure by them,” the WHOU-FM station owner said.
These two should have known better and been better. They didn't know the microphones were live - and that doesn't matter one bit.
They didn’t give proper weight to their words.
HOULTON, Maine (AP) — Two radio announcers calling a Maine high school girl's basketball game were fired after they mocked players for being overweight. The comments were made by two broadcasters on the Houlton radio station WHOU-FM on Thursday evening during a game between teams from Central Aroostook and Easton, near the Canadian border, the Portland Press Herald reported.