A “hot mic” isn’t anything new. The mics are always on, 2020/2021 didn’t have the crowd to drown the player out. Fox USO broadcasts a couple years ago, you could hear the shit out of the ball in the cup, they threw a mic in there. Why? I don’t know 🤷♂️ People needed to hear it I guess 😂😂😂. Annoyed the shit out of me. Hot mics are everywhere. The meeting you have at work with a secretly disgruntled employee, his/her phone has a recording app/video.
In TV we never had a delay which I thought wasn’t smart. Kobe’s last game exit interview was delayed. Couple games before it wasn’t, nice lil F bomb drop = $$$$$$$
Radio always had a 10sec delay, local and national. Easy.