Dan McNeil is out at WSCR 670 AM, a day after a tweet in which the sports-talk host compared ESPN sideline reporter Maria Taylor’s attire on “Monday Night Football” to that of an adult film awards show.
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Rachel Williamson, Entercom Communications regional president, announced McNeil’s exit in a Tuesday memo to WSCR staff that spoke of the power of words and the responsibility to choose them wisely.
McNeil’s “tweet, and its degrading and humiliating tone to a fellow female broadcaster, was unacceptable,” Williamson wrote, offering an apology “to all who were offended by Dan’s words, especially Maria.”
Parkins said he agreed with everything in Williamson’s note, but he was shaken because he was close with McNeil and the ouster was abrupt.
“Actions have consequences,” Parkins said, opening Tuesday’s show. “I can understand completely Entercom did what it did, and I feel terrible that Maria Taylor debuts on ‘Monday Night Football’ — talk about a career milestone and accomplishment — and somehow she gets caught up in this nonsense. That’s not right. Nobody can condone that. So, yeah, the industry needs to be better. We need to be better.”
Reached by the Tribune, McNeil declined to comment.
McNeil posted Monday on Twitter, along with a picture of Taylor reporting from that night’s Steelers-Giants game: “NFL sideline reporter or a host for the AVN annual awards presentation?”
AVN is an abbreviation for Adult Video News.
Well Danny Dearest if you would like to continue making sexist comments about me...please bring your misogyny with you to the NBA Countdown double header I’ll be hosting tomorrow night. Hey ladies remember you can wear whatever you feel confident in! @670TheScore @DannyMac670 https://t.co/bN0H582isU
— Maria Taylor (@MariaTaylor) September 15, 2020
Taylor — who was making her NFL sideline debut — not only responded to McNeil on Twitter after the game, but also took the opportunity to promote her upcoming NBA work.
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