No More Phunn At Sports KSTP-Twin Cities

Longtime Twin Cities sports radio personality Joe Anderson was fired Friday by KSTP1500-AM, where he had been working for more than a year as the co-host of the station’s 9-noon program with former Star Tribune writer Judd Zulgad.

Joe Anderson

Anderson – better known as “Mr. Phunn” – announced the news via Twitter, saying the parting was amicable.

In a phone interview Friday afternoon with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Anderson said the station’s management wanted to go in another direction and that the move had nothing to do with the impending loss of the Twins in 2013 to the FM dial.

“They weren’t real specific about it, but I think it’s been pretty apparent that I’d run out of steam on the whole sports talk,” Anderson said. “I’ve been thinking about it. My contract was up at end of February, and they had made decision not to renew. They decided to pull the plug now.”

Before joining 1500-AM, Anderson worked for about a decade on KFAN, with most of that time spent on Dan Barreiro’s afternoon program.

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