Happening right now, controversy over a local sports Radio Station after a caller was outed as a fake but what really has people fuming not so much that that caller was in fact a station employee but the fact that the employee pretended to be a different race. Im lucy noland. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in bala kin wide, chris, this wasnt a onetime deal either. Reporter no, its been happening for while, lucy. I can tell you you know sports talk radio is a big deal here in philadelphia. That is why so many listeners were a buzz today when they found out one of their own was a fake. Your viewers are offensed. I got i totally understand isnt. Reporter controversy phil the philly air waves today about blaine from swedesboro. A frequent caller to 97. 5 the phanatic but the africanamerican man from new jersey is actually ryan egan a white radio producer for the Mike Missanelli show. Missanelli apologized to listeners saying he had no idea his own producer had been making the fake calls fo
Reporter controversy phil the philly air waves today about blaine from swedesboro. A frequent caller to 97. 5 the phanatic but the africanamerican man from new jersey is actually ryan egan a white radio producer for the Mike Missanelli show. Missanelli apologized to listeners saying he had no idea his own producer had been making the fake calls for two years. Blaine whats going on man. How you doing man. Calls and tweets that included stereotypes of african americans. I apologize if that went over the line, and it wont happen again. Reporter kyle scott who runs the sports blog crossing broad uncovered the hoax. To find out that some of is maybe staged and then when you add in the angle there was a slight race component to this and it was offensive to some people, i think that makes it a little bit disappointing. Reporter now, we tried to cant tact the phanatic self times for comment on this story and to find out if there are any other fake callers on the air waves. So far were still wa