La Liga TV's Semra Hunter, the American in European TV

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Grant has a fascinating interview with La Liga TV's Semra Hunter, the only American who's working in television in a top-5 European soccer league. Based in Barcelona, Hunter explains what she does week to week with the Spanish top flight and tells her story. That includes growing up in the Los Angeles area, attending the 1999 women's World Cup final, graduating from Cal-Berkeley, and starting a career in European soccer media. This episode of Fútbol with Grant Wahl is brought to you by Fanatiz. Frustrated that you can't get games from Spain's La Liga on your cable or satellite system? Sign up to stream Fanatiz. On Fanatiz, you can watch all the action in La Liga and other international leagues and tournaments live and on-demand from your mobile phone, tablet or directly on your TV with the Fanatiz app. Fanatiz features channels you know, like BeIN Sports in English and Spanish, GolTV and many more. And it costs only $7.99 a month. If you’d like to try Fanatiz for yourself, you can get a free week-long trial by going to fntz.co/Grant-FZ. Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIhXWUw0H4 Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Hey there. Welcome to Football with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. Today's interview
0:12.1	guest is Semra Hunter, an American who's the studio host for La Liga TV in Barcelona.
0:19.0	We've had some great guests lately, including Lutz Fountainsteel, Jack Harrison, and
0:24.5	John Burman. I also encourage you to check out my podcast series, American Prodigy, the
0:30.4	Fredia Dew Story. All eight episodes are out, and you can binge all of them to your heart's
0:36.4	content. Now, here's my interview with Semra Hunter.
0:42.2	Our guest now has had a fascinating journey in soccer media. Semra Hunter was born in
0:48.5	the Los Angeles area and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. These
0:54.6	days, she lives in Barcelona, where she's the studio host for La Liga TV, a 24-7 channel,
1:01.9	which airs all the games and shoulder programming from Spain's top flight in various countries
1:07.4	around the world. You can see her on being sports in the US with that. Semra, congratulations
1:13.9	on everything you're doing. Thanks for coming on the show.
1:16.9	Thank you very much and thanks for such a warm welcome. I'm so pleased to be here with you,
1:21.2	Brad. It's great to have you. I've been wanting to get you on here for a while. I totally
1:26.6	want to get into your story and how you got to do what you're doing, which is really interesting.
1:32.6	But for now, I am curious. Do you know if you're the only American working in the television
1:39.5	broadcast media for soccer in one of the top five European leagues? Have you found anyone
1:45.2	else? I have not to be honest with you. As far as I can tell, I am the only American. I'm
1:52.2	flying the American flag over here in Europe for us, okay? Fantastic. I thought that might
1:59.6	be the case, but I wanted to ask. I'm wondering, could you explain to our listeners what is La Liga
2:07.1	TV? Where is the studio located? What do you do for them? Of course. So we're located in Barcelona,
2:13.6	and I've been part of this project for the last, I guess, coming up almost on three years. It's
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