{"id":368524,"date":"2025-12-21T22:22:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/368524\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:22:26","slug":"flyers-radio-voice-suspended-for-nsfw-hot-mic-gaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/368524\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers radio voice suspended for NSFW hot mic gaffe"},"content":{"rendered":"

While on the radio broadcast for the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>, play-by-play announcer Tim Saunders was caught saying something that he shouldn’t have said.<\/p>\n

Saunders assuredly thought the game had gone into a commercial break, assuming the Flyers had gone into a TV timeout with only a few minutes remaining in the third period. After a few moments of dead air, Saunders made some brief humming noises to pass the time.<\/p>\n

After nearly twenty seconds, Saunders made a flippant comment to one of his co-workers that was broadcast on the airwaves.<\/p>\n

Warning: The following clip is not considered suitable for work.<\/p>\n

It did not take long for his color commentator, Todd Fedoruk, to notice that listeners could still hear him.<\/p>\n

Saunders thought that Fedoruk was kidding and laughed it off, but they were indeed still live.<\/p>\n

The Flyers issued a statement that the organization and their broadcast partners at 97.5 The Fanatic have issued a two-game suspension.<\/p>\n

While they did not say it was to Saunders, they offered “sincere” apologies to those affected by the comments.<\/p>\n

Saunders also issued an apology statement via the Flyers Broadcast Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While on the radio broadcast for the Philadelphia Flyers, play-by-play announcer Tim Saunders was caught saying something that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[316,2794,1928,1468,5,52,2796,80,40,4,79,85,1467,56,5205,49,43,86,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-368524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-flyers","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-local","14":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","15":"tag-neutral","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-overall","19":"tag-overall-neutral","20":"tag-philadelphia","21":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","22":"tag-philadelphiaflyers","23":"tag-radio","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-sports-news","26":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115759896620653321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}