Jemele Hill and Tom Hannifan

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Episode 146 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests. First up is Jemele Hill, a contributing writer for The Atlantic, the host of the “Jemele Hill is Unbothered,” podcast for Spotify, and a creative adviser for Meadowlark Media. She is followed by Tom Hannifan, better known by the announcing name Tom Phillips. He spent nine years with the WWE and during his WWE career he served as the play-by-play commentator on Raw, NXT, SmackDown, 205 Live, and NXT UK. He was recently let go by WWE and is now looking for traditional sports broadcasting opportunities. In this podcast Hill discusses Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open; the failure to find a creative solution by French Open organizers; the debate over the value of the post-game/post-match presser; the importance of the press conference for smaller media outlets; the performative aspects and uncomfortable nature of sports press conferences; whether this means something larger for the sports media; a very bad week of fans interacting with athletes including criminality; why we have seen that happen, and more. Hannifan discusses the most challenging thing about being a WWE broadcaster; how long it took him to get product knowledge; how he was initially get hired by WWE; whether he was overproduced while on-air; his surprise to learn he was no longer calling RAW and being replaced by Adnan Virk; the short tenure of Virk; his alltime favorite match called; his friendship with Big E; getting slapped by Stephanie McMahon; what he wants to do next; his attempt to get work in college football and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.3	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deitch and welcome to the sports media podcast by producers Patrick Antenetti.
0:42.1	Today, a really good sports media podcast, two guests, two excellent guests. First up, Jamel Hill.
0:47.5	A contributing writer for The Atlantic, the host of Jamel Hill is Unbothered, which is on Spotify,
1:00.1	creative advisor for MetroLark Media, owns her own production company with Kelly Carter, Lodge Freeway Media.
1:03.1	You know who are obviously from ESPN and the Orlando Sentinel.
1:12.8	We talk about Naomi Osaka withdrawing from the French Open, the value of post-game, post-match press conferences, why they're important to journalists,
1:19.7	what maybe could have been done creatively so that the Naomi Osaka situation did not end as it did.
1:25.8	And then we finish up with discussing fans interacting with players in a pretty horrible way, certainly over the last week, whether it be
1:28.7	Kyrie Irving, get a bottle thrown at him, Russell Westbrook and popcorn, Tray Young being spit
1:32.7	on. It's been an ugly week for fan interactions. It doesn't broad brush everybody who's a fan,
1:37.9	obviously, but there's some foreboding and troubling signs out there. So I really appreciate Jemel coming on.
1:45.4	It's always great.
1:46.0	She's been on this podcast many times and good of her to make some time.
1:49.8	For that, followed by, as we totally switched to something else, Tom Hannafin, who you probably
1:57.2	know by the announcing name, Tom Phillips.
1:59.7	He spent nine years with the
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