{"id":442523,"date":"2023-12-27T05:31:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T05:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=442523"},"modified":"2023-12-27T05:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T05:31:21","slug":"padres-radio-station-fires-host-john-kentera-scott-kaplan-speculates-a-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/padres-radio-station-fires-host-john-kentera-scott-kaplan-speculates-a-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres Radio Station Fires Host John Kentera, Scott Kaplan Speculates A Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of the week, 97.3 John Kentera, the noon anchor for The Fan, disclosed that he was let go from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/padres\">San Diego<\/a> sports station. Scott Kaplan thinks he understands why the move was made.<\/p>\n<h2>Padres Radio Station Fires Host John Kentera, Scott Kaplan Speculates A Controversy<\/h2>\n<p>On Friday, Kaplan stated on his Kaplan and Crew YouTube program that Kentera&#8217;s dismissal was a result of some criticism he directed on the San Diego Padres. The MLB team&#8217;s primary radio program is 97.3 The Fan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no insight of any kind. I don\u2019t know anybody who works at that radio station, but here\u2019s my thought,\u201d Scott Kaplan began. \u201cI\u2019ll bet you that Coach Kentera was so tied in with (former Padres manager) Bob Melvin\u2026And I\u2019ll bet you that coach was so blunt with his criticism of the Padres \u2014 and I saw people accusing him of being a racist on Twitter, because he\u2019s not into the Caribbean style of play and bat flipping and whatever. He\u2019s an old white guy. What do you expect them to do? Love that? He\u2019s an old-school kind of coach.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I guess that I just don&#39;t really know where to look, but just found this:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The John Kentera Show\u00a0enjoyed a large increase, jumping from a 5.8 share in the spring, good for 4th, to an 8.2 share and the number one show in the market during its time slot.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F6zDQBe6oS\">pic.twitter.com\/F6zDQBe6oS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Clark (@MikeClark36) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeClark36\/status\/1738782221266563240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy guess is there is no program director at this radio station that makes that decision. Too big of a decision. And I would bet you that the corporate company in New York is like \u2018We don\u2019t care. We don\u2019t care about this guy. He barely makes any money. We don\u2019t care.\u2019 I would bet you the Padres were like, \u2018Hey, he was tied in with Melvin. He was very, very critical of our organization. And guess what we want? We need people who are cheerleaders. We need people to support our product.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan disclosed that Kentera had informed him that he was employed by the Audacy-owned station without a contract.<\/p>\n<p>The ESPN LA 710 presenter also said that he was taken aback by the San Diego radio icon&#8217;s pitiful salary from the station.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Coach&#39; John Kentera says he&#39;s been fired from radio job <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZHgbwXZXPB\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZHgbwXZXPB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The San Diego Union-Tribune (@sdut) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sdut\/status\/1738012027707355277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand it, and it sucks, and to do it a couple of days before Christmas, and to not have taken care of this guy while he was employed there \u2014 to not have given him a contract, to not have had ratings bonuses to not have made a penny not $1 from the success that his show enjoyed and the station enjoyed \u2014 it\u2019s just sad. It\u2019s just too bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Kentera Exits Middays At 97.3 The Fan &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WeowkNSsbM\">https:\/\/t.co\/WeowkNSsbM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jPzoMiAJcx\">pic.twitter.com\/jPzoMiAJcx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RadioInsight.com (@radioinsight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/radioinsight\/status\/1738255758179876991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Following the widespread dissemination of Kaplan&#8217;s remarks, Awful Announcing was informed by a person familiar with The Fan that \u201cthe decision was not about any influence from the Padres, but rather the station wanting to modernize its lineup\u201d and that \u201cthe station\u2019s decision alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Take A Look At NFL Playoff Picture Post 49ers-Ravens Game\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/take-a-look-at-nfl-playoff-picture-post-49ers-ravens-game\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Take A Look At NFL Playoff Picture Post 49ers-Ravens Game<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of the week, 97.3 John Kentera, the noon anchor for The Fan, disclosed that he was let go from the San Diego sports station. Scott Kaplan thinks he understands why the move was made. Padres Radio Station Fires Host John Kentera, Scott Kaplan Speculates A Controversy On Friday, Kaplan stated on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":442524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,142],"tags":[20379,20380,20381,3265,2221,13235,20382],"class_list":["post-442523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","category-san-diego-padres","tag-john-kentera","tag-john-kentera-fired","tag-john-kentera-news","tag-mlb-2023","tag-mlb-news","tag-padres-news","tag-padres-radio-station"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}