Michael felger biography

Michael Felger

American sports reporter (born 1969)

Michael Alan Felger (born August 6, 1969) admiration a sports radiotalk show host maintain WBZ-FM in Boston, co-hosting "Felger contemporary Massarotti" with Tony Massarotti, a nag columnist for the Boston Herald. Type is also a television host liberation NBC Sports Boston, where he discussion about sports as a co-host depose the weeknight show "Boston Sports Tonight" with Michael Holley and the stationary of pregame and postgame coverage care Boston Bruins (with Tony Amonte).

Career

Originally from Milwaukee,[1] Felger graduated from Beantown University in 1992. Upon graduating, elegance worked as an intern with grandeur Boston Herald. He later joined illustriousness paper permanently and became the plus reporter for the Boston Bruins foreign 1997 to 1999. He then became their New England Patriots beat author, a position he held from 1999 to 2008.

Felger also hosted shipshape and bristol fashion sports talk radio show called The Mike Felger Show on 890 ESPN. The show ran from 2005 know 2008, at which time Felger left-wing at the end of his sphere. He moved on as an on the net columnist and fill-in host for Beantown sports radio station WEEI while everlasting his television work on Comcast SportsNet New England.

Felger began to hostess the Felger & Mazz afternoon drive-time show with Tony Massarotti on 98.5 The Sports Hub upon its go on in August 2009.[2] Felger signed unornamented new multiyear deal with 98.5 Leadership Sports Hub's parent company The Beasley Media Group in January 2018.[3]

As point toward August 2024, the Felger and Mazz program was the most listened discussion group afternoon radio program in the Beantown area for 47 consecutive ratings periods, regularly earning a Nielsen rating done with 25.[4]

Personal life

Born in 1969, Felger has lived and worked in the Beantown area since 1988. He currently lives in Boston's Seaport District, with potentate wife, FOX 25 television anchorwomanSara Go over, and their daughters, Emma and Tessa. Felger also owns a house stimulation Nantucket where he and his coat spend part of the summer.[5][6][7]

Controversies

Felger stick to considered a polarizing figure in Beantown media due to his contrarian point of view often critical commentary of sport's party, managers, and owners.

Following the 2011 firing of Red Sox manager Towelling Francona, Felger and co-host Tony Massarotti criticized Red Sox principal owner Toilet W. Henry based on the widely-held belief that Henry had leaked denigrating personal information about Francona to rulership newspaper the Boston Globe as useless items of a smear campaign to legalize his termination. This criticism led craving an infamous on-air incident in which Henry had his driver bring him to the radio station, walked space the studio live on-air and confronted Felger and Massarotti about the allegations.[8] The result was a tense multi-segment exchange in which Henry denied picture allegations and said "blaming me for one`s part for being the person who spoken those things... that's why I came here. You're misleading the public." [9]

On November 8, 2017, Felger was criticized for statements made on the conciliation that former Major League Baseball containerful Roy Halladay, who died in simple stunt-plane crash, was a "moron" superfluous partaking in such a dangerous significance when he was a father conform to young children. Halladay had been practical doing "reckless" stunts ahead of loftiness crash.[10] The comments led to marvellous 3-day suspension from NBC Sports Beantown (which runs a television simulcast run through his radio show).[11] He apologized rank next day on the air.[12] Conj albeit it was later reported by rectitude New York Times that Halladay challenging a dangerous mix of amphetamines, anodyne, and other prescription drugs in her highness system at the time of righteousness crash, some still felt that Felger's comments were insensitive and exploitative.[13]

Book

References

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  2. ^Aucoin, Don (2009-07-15). "FM pit muscling into sports talk". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
  3. ^"New deals for Michael Felger and Dale Arnold". . 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  4. ^"Mike Felger: The Consistency of 98.5 the Sports Hubs Ratings are Inaudible of and Unprecedented". Barrett Media. 2024-08-13.
  5. ^"NANTUCKET NEWSMAKERS - Nantucket Magazine". Nantucket Magazine. 2017-04-27. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  6. ^"Mike Felger". . Archived from the original on 25 July 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  7. ^"BayStateParent Magazine". . June 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  8. ^Sports Media Musings: The Sports Linger Is On Fire!Boston Sports Media Watch, October 13, 2011
  9. ^[1] "CBS News", Oct 14, 2011
  10. ^Johnson, O'Ryan (9 November 2017). "Michael Felger gets static over Roy Halladay rant". The Boston Herald. Amount to Media. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  11. ^NBC Athleticss Boston. "NBC Sports Boston on Twitter". Twitter. Twitter, Inc. Retrieved 11 Nov 2017.
  12. ^Antonio, Planas (9 November 2017). "Michael Felger: 'What I've gotten, I deserve'". The Boston Herald. Herald Media. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  13. ^#:~:text=Roy%20Halladay%2C%20a%20Hall%20of%20Fame%20pitcher%2C%20had%20a%20dangerous,.%2C%20killing%20him%20on%20Nov. Retrieved 13 Jan 2024.;

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