{"id":307291,"date":"2026-05-09T06:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/307291\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T06:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:19:20","slug":"napear-pulled-from-sacramento-airwaves-again-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/307291\/","title":{"rendered":"Napear pulled from Sacramento airwaves again. What to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento sportscaster Grant Napear\u2019s talk show on Fox Sports KSAC was abruptly canceled Monday<\/a>, just eight months after his return to local airwaves. The cancellation marks another twist in the long career of the former Sacramento Kings play-by-play announcer.<\/p>\n

Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The latest cancellation: Fox Sports KSAC (104.7 FM\/890 AM) pulled the plug on \u201cThe Grant Napear Show\u201d on Monday, informing Napear and producer Ryan Bohamera about 30 minutes before the scheduled broadcast. The station replaced it with the national \u201cThe Odd Couple\u201d show.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Why it ended: Bohamera said the station\u2019s owner and general manager liked the show\u2019s content but had trouble selling it to sponsors. Napear said the company is \u201ccutting costs across the board.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 The 2020 firestorm: Napear lost his TV and radio jobs in June 2020 after tweeting \u201cALL LIVES MATTER \u2026 EVERY SINGLE ONE\u201d<\/a> in response to former Kings star DeMarcus Cousins, who asked his thoughts on Black Lives Matter days after George Floyd was killed.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Long Sacramento career: Napear, 66, spent nearly 33 years on Sacramento airwaves. He was hired at Channel 31 in 1987, became Kings play-by-play announcer in 1988 and started his KHTK radio show in 1995.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The fallout: Former Kings players Chris Webber and Matt Barnes joined the 2020 backlash, with Barnes calling Napear a \u201ccloset racist.\u201d Napear later called former broadcast partner<\/a>, and now Kings head coach, Doug Christie a \u201ccoward\u201d for not defending him.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The lawsuit: Napear sued parent company<\/a> Bonneville International for wrongful termination, seeking damages exceeding $75,000. A federal court in Sacramento dismissed the case in April 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 The comeback and what\u2019s next: Napear returned to Sacramento radio in September 2025, declaring, \u201cI was canceled, but I am back.\u201d He now plans to host his podcast Monday through Friday on YouTube and X.<\/p>\n

This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
\n <\/a><\/p>\n

Jason Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Jason Anderson is The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Kings beat writer. He is a Sacramento native and a graduate of Fresno State, where he studied journalism and college basketball under the late Jerry Tarkanian.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento sportscaster Grant Napear\u2019s talk show on Fox Sports KSAC was abruptly canceled Monday, just eight months after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-307291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307291","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=307291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}