Newfoundland radio host leaves station after ‘disrespect’ of woman on Twitter
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A Newfoundland radio station says it has parted ways with an announcer who told a young woman on Twitter that she should strip.
The woman had invited her followers to watch a live stream of her playing a video game, and Joel North, an announcer for Coast 101.1 in St. John’s, responded: “You’d get more viewers if you were stripping.”
The woman herself dismissed North, responding Wednesday “and you’d get more followers if you weren’t a pig!” But amid a growing backlash, Allan Gidyk, the general manager of Coast 101.1, issued an open letter Saturday to the St. John’s Status of Women Council / Women’s Centre.
He said the station investigated a complaint about “an inappropriate social media interaction through a personal social media account belonging to a Coast employee.” That staffer “is no longer an employee” of the station, Gidyk said without elaborating.