(KGW 8) – The Edmonton Journal reported that Portland-based radio station KBOO-FM tweeted on Sunday that it had received “disturbing information regarding the behavior of an on-air volunteer that we had no knowledge of prior to this morning.” A subsequent tweet states that the station has taken “appropriate actions regarding this person’s involvement with KBOO.”
The tweets do not mention the name of the volunteer in question, but the Journal reported that Noah Madrano was listed as a producer of a podcast that aired on KBOO, and that the since-deleted most recent episode featured a segment in which the host pretends to have phone sex with a teenage girl.
The Journal reported that it spoke to a KBOO official who said the station didn’t know about the segment before it aired, and that it had removed the episode from its platforms.
A LinkedIn page for a person named Noah Madrano lists him as the developer of a podcast that it says airs on KBOO. A Google search for the podcast’s name returns results pointing to a page on KBOO’s website, but the page appears to have been deleted.
KGW reached out to KBOO for comment, but has not yet heard back.