Mike Missanelli is a Philadelphia sports radio personality who was fired from a TV gig

A Philadelphia sports radio personality says he lost a weekly television gig after saying a female announcer calling an NFL game 'sounds unnatural'.

Mike Missanelli said on his radio show on Thursday that he was fired from 'Sports Sunday' on WPVI, Philadelphia's ABC station.

He says it is because on Tuesday he questioned why ESPN was using Beth Mowins to do play-by-play on ESPN's Monday Night Football double-header.

'It just to me sounds unnatural for her to be calling the NFL,' he said on his show.

'I don't know why the sporting world needs a female play-by-play person on an NFL game,' he said on his show Crossing Broad.

Missanelli says he has no one to blame but himself and calls it a 'harsh result'.

WPVI declined to comment on the matter to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Beth Mowins gave the play-by-play account for Monday Night Football on ESPN this past week. Missanelli said on his radio show the following day: 'It just to me sounds unnatural for her to be calling the NFL'

Missanelli said that he was fired following his comments, which came at the same week Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton made sexist comments to a female reporter

The firing comes the same week Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton made sexist comments to a female reporter.

When a Charlotte newspaper reporter named Jourdan Rodrigue asked Newton about a wide receiver's route running, Newton laughed and said, 'it's funny to hear a female talk about routes'.

He has apologized.

NFL quarterback Cameron Newton (right) apologized after he told reporter Jourdan Rodrigue (left): 'It's funny to hear a female talk about routes'

Rodrigue, meanwhile, apologized after racist tweets of hers from 2012 and 2013 were unearthed.

She said there was 'no excuse' for the tweets in which she used the n-word and revelled in her father's 'racist jokes about Navajo land'.

In a Twitter statement, she said: 'I apologize for the offensive tweets from my Twitter account 4/5 years ago.