Sacramento sports radio station abruptly cancels ‘The Grant Napear Show’
A popular Sacramento sports talk radio vice was silenced for the second time Monday when Fox Sorts KSAC abruptly cancelled “The Grant Napear Show.”
Napear took to social media to announce the news just eight months after returning to Sacramento on Fox Sports 104.7 FM/890 AM. Napear thanked his listeners along with Ryan Bohamera, the show’s producer and an on-air contributor,
“BREAKING NEWS: I was just informed they are pulling the plug on my show,” Napear tweeted. “My thanks to you for your support and @RyaninSactown who did a great job.”
Napear and Bohamera were informed of the show’s cancellation about 30 minutes before Monday’s episode was scheduled to begin. In its place, the station aired “The Odd Couple,” a national Fox Sports Radio show featuring Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington.
Bohamera told The Sacramento Bee that the station’s owner and general manager were high on the show’s content, but they had trouble selling it to sponsors. Napear told The Bee the company is “cutting costs across the board.”
Napear went live on YouTube and X on Monday evening to discuss the situation further.
“To be honest, I’m not shocked, and the reason why I’m not shocked is the radio business, even sine I last did it in 2020, is so different. It is so different, and it’s a business, quite frankly, that is close to becoming extinct because of formats like this and satellite radio, and everything else that is called competition, and that is where we’re at.”
Napear said he will host his podcast Monday through Friday on YouTube and X.
Fox Sorts KSAC launched “The Grant Napear Show” in September, five years after Napear was unceremoniously removed from Sacramento’s airwaves following more than three decades as a popular television and radio personality. Napear served as the play-by-play voice of the Sacramento Kings on television while hosting a drive-time radio show on Sactown Sports 1140.
Napear lost both jobs amid allegations of racial insensitivity after tweeting “ALL LIVES MATTER ... EVERY SINGLE ONE” in response to a question from former Kings star DeMarcus Cousins, who asked Napear what he thought about the Black Lives Matter movement.
