{"id":65897,"date":"2025-12-20T05:42:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65897\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T05:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:42:22","slug":"flyers-suspend-radio-broadcaster-for-comments-made-during-hot-mic-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65897\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers suspend radio broadcaster for comments made during hot mic moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Tim Saunders host a pregame ceremony honoring Steve Coates, 43-year career as member of the broadcast team for the Philadelphia Flyers at the Wells Fargo Center on April 1, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1480668694-1-1024x781.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" class=\"image-next-root\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Article_ImageCaptionCredit__mkXi_ article-image-caption-credit Typography_body1__xfKuc inherit Typography_base__jzSqr\">Saunders, a Michigan native, is in his 29th season with the Flyers. Len Redkoles \/ NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Flyers have suspended radio play-by-play broadcaster Tim Saunders for two games after he was caught on a hot mic making an inappropriate joke of a sexual nature on the team\u2019s flagship station, 97.5 The Fanatic.<\/p>\n<p>According to a team source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, Saunders was joking with his broadcast partner, Todd Fedoruk.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3LQywSJ958\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3LQywSJ958<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLFlyers\/status\/2002037612857500113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saunders will miss the Flyers-Rangers game at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, and Monday\u2019s home game with the Vancouver Canucks. He will return on Dec. 23 for the Flyers-Blackhawks game in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Smith, the Flyers\u2019 director of broadcasting and content, will fill in, calling games with Fedoruk, according to a team source.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders, a Michigan native, is in his 29th season with the Flyers. He joined the club in 1997 after spending two seasons with the Cleveland Lumberjacks of the now-defunct International Hockey League. He also served as the television play-by-play voice of the Philadelphia Phantoms for eight seasons before the Flyers\u2019 American Hockey League affiliate was relocated.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saunders, a Michigan native, is in his 29th season with the Flyers. Len Redkoles \/ NHLI via Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6033,4843,69,4845,71,70,33998],"class_list":["post-65897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-culture","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sports-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}