{"id":301452,"date":"2026-05-05T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/301452\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:46:08","slug":"sacramento-station-cancels-grant-napear-show-after-brief-return-to-air-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/301452\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Station Cancels Grant Napear Show After Brief Return To Air. | Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Sacramento sports talk radio voice was taken off the air for a second time Monday as Lotus Communications-owned \u201cFox Sports 104.7 FM 890 AM Sacramento\u201d KSAC-AM\/K284CM abruptly canceled \u201cThe Grant Napear Show,\u201d the Sacramento Bee reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Napear announced the move on social media, ending an eight-month run<\/a> after his return to the station. In his post, he thanked listeners and producer Ryan Bohamera.<\/p>\n

Napear and Bohamera were notified of the cancellation about 30 minutes before Monday\u2019s scheduled broadcast. The station instead aired \u201cThe Odd Couple,\u201d a nationally syndicated Fox Sports Radio program featuring Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington.<\/p>\n

Bohamera told the Bee that station leadership supported the show\u2019s content but struggled to attract advertisers. Napear said the company is \u201ccutting costs across the board,\u201d according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

Later Monday, Napear addressed the situation during a livestream on YouTube and X.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, I\u2019m not shocked, and the reason why I\u2019m not shocked is the radio business, even since I last did it in 2020, is so different. It is so different, and it\u2019s a business, quite frankly, that is close to becoming extinct because of formats like this and satellite radio, and everything else that is called competition, and that is where we\u2019re at.\u201d<\/p>\n

Napear said he plans to continue hosting a podcast on YouTube and X Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n

KSAC launched \u201cThe Grant Napear Show\u201d in September, marking Napear\u2019s return to the Sacramento market five years after his departure from local radio and television. He had spent more than three decades as a prominent sports broadcaster. That run includes serving as the television play-by-play voice of the Sacramento Kings and hosting a drive-time radio show on Bonneville International\u2019s \u201cSactown Sports 1140\u201d KHTK-AM Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Napear lost both roles in 2021<\/a> following allegations of racial insensitivity tied to a social media post. He had tweeted \u201cALL LIVES MATTER … EVERY SINGLE ONE\u201d in response to a question from former Kings player DeMarcus Cousins about the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n

Napear subsequently sued Bonneville<\/a> for wrongful termination, but his suit was ultimately unsuccessful<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sacramento sports talk radio voice was taken off the air for a second time Monday as Lotus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[20299,100,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-301452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-free","tag-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}