'Hey look, Barbie's here. Hi, Barbie girl!' Don Geronimo said on-air of veteran journalist, Sharla McBride.
a fellow radio personality. “Hi, Barbie girl. I’m guessing she’s a cheerleader.”McBride was mentioned at another point in the WBIG “BIG 100" broadcast, which was recorded and aired last Thursday. “Oh hey, there’s that chick that you thought said tight,” Geronimo remarked to Young. What “tight” referenced was never explained as Young’s response was reportedly interrupted: “Yeah, I screamed tight when she was,” Young began. Frankly, I’m okay not knowing the remainder of that story.
“I thought she was a cheerleader,” Geronimo later said when he and Young discussed why the journalist of 17 years looked “familiar.”Fortunately, it didn’t take long for the Commanders—who’ve partnered with iHeart aka the owner of the station that employed Geronimo—to reprimand the radio host. By Saturday, he’d been terminated from the station.
“We have worked hard to ensure that everyone feels safe and respected in our workplace, and we took swift action when we learned that an employee of our partner iHeart made sexually disparaging remarks to and about a member of the media while she was broadcasting live from training camp yesterday,” a spokesperson for the team“After an internal review, Don Geronimo is no longer an employee of WBIG,” Aaron Hyland, iHeartMedia’s D.C.
. “We take matters of this nature very seriously and this behavior does not align with our core values.”she appreciated the “swift response” from the Commanders.“When I heard the comments made about me on their radio show, I felt incredibly insulted and embarrassed,” McBride said in a statement to the publication. “In my 17 years as a professional journalist, I have never been disrespected in such a blatant manner while trying to do my job. Their words were sexist and misogynistic.
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