Daily News | Mike Missanelli accuses bosses of lying about exit from 97.5 The Fanatic
“He deserved a better goodbye in broadcasting than they gave him at that other station,” Cataldi said of Missanelli. “Shame on you.”
What drew Missanelli’s ire was a listener who claimed to have written the station following Cataldi’s retirement, asking why Missanelli wasn’t afforded the same opportunity. According to the listener, the station’s management claimed they offered Missanelli the chance to have a big sendoff, which he had refused.
“That’s a flat out lie,” Missanelli said. “At no point in time was I ever afforded a chance to give a farewell, nor did they offer any kind of a celebratory farewell to me. In fact, they didn’t even mention retirement to me.” Missanelli said he was working under the assumption he would receive a new contract in June 2022 when he discovered The Fanatic had already put, featuring Tyrone Johnson, NBC Sports Philadelphia’s Ricky Bottalico, Hunter Brody, and Jen Scordo.
“That’s when I decided I was done and I was going to walk away,” Missanelli said. “I was not going to come in and be humiliated as a guy who was the dead man walking while they had another show that they had under contract.”Chuck Damico, The Fanatic’s program director, declined to comment on Missanelli’s podcast. Joe Bell, the vice president and market manager of Beasley Media Group’s Philadelphia stations, did not respond to a request for comment.
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