Tommy Kane

Tommy Kane has always had a PASSION for motivating people of all ages.  Combine that with his stage presence and his desire to "ATTACK THE GIFT OF LIFE" and his audiences leave inspired and with a "can do" mindset.  Tommy has a flare for connecting to any type of audience… from corporate America to youth groups, and everyone in between.  Pulling from his own real world experiences, like realizing a childhood dream of walking on the NC State basketball team… to coaching young men who went on to greatness… to winning 13 regional Emmy Awards ... to acting with some of Hollywood's elite – Tommy’s stories from his life’s journey are truly uplifting and powerful.

Originally from the beautiful port city of Wilmington, NC, Tommy Kane called Atlanta home for 30 years and now resides just outside of Charlotte , NC.  After graduating from NC State University in 1993, he moved to Georgia to start his career in the sports television world.

For the first 14 years of his career, Tommy worked at Fox Sports Net South in Atlanta.  He spent most of that time as a producer/director (and later as a manager) of the Creative Services department.  Tommy left FSN in March of 2008 to channel his energy and time to developing both his video production company,PACK30 PRODUCTIONS, LLC, as well as his on-camera talents.

During his TV career, Tommy has garnered over 32 regional Emmy nominations and has taken home 13 regional Emmy Awards, over 22 national Telly Awards and 4 Communicator Awards.

Since leaving FSN, Tommy Kane’s on-air talent / acting career has taken off!

For 8 years, Tommy was the host of the multiple award winning ACC ROAD TRIP.  During that time, Kane was also reporting for the ACC football game of the week pre-game show – ACC BLITZ and the Emmy Award winning show Football Saturdays, hosted by Tim Brando.

He was recognized for his reporting and hosting skills when he won the 2011 Southeast regiona Emmy Award for best “On-Air Talent – Reporter – Sports.”  And in 2010, he was honored as an Official Honoree in the 14th Annual Webby Awards in the BEST REALITY / VARIETY HOST category for his work on ACC ROAD TRIP.  (The Webby’s are the leading international award honoring excellence on the internet.)

From 2019 - 2021, Tommy Kane was the host of the Emmy Award winning show - HOT WHEELS MONSTER TRUCKS LIVE – CRUSHING IT.  A national show that he co-hosted with Kristen Beat and was produced by Raycom-Legacy.

  

Tommy also does talent, acting and modeling work on various commercials and projects.  He has appeared in numerous commercials for companies such as Walmart, MetLife, IcyHot, Zaxby’s, Cadillac, Mizuno and TBS.  He has also done a plethora of work hosting industrial videos for big name clients like Chick-Fil-A, Home Depot, Chevron and UPS.

As an actor, Tommy Kane played the role of reporter Mark Melon in the major motion picture FLIGHT which was directed by Robert Zemeckis (Forest Gump, Back To The Future).  In his scenes, Kane worked with both Denzel Washington (who was nominated for an Oscar for his role) and John Goodman.  Tommy also played the role of a reporter in the Clint Eastwood directed movie – RICHARD JEWELL.  Kane worked with Kathy Bates, Sam Rockwell and Paul Walter Houser in his scenes.  And in 2020, Tommy landed a role in the movie DEAR EVAN HANSEN and worked with Ben Platt.

Tommy Kane has also worked a numerous TV shows over the past few years.  He is a recurring character (reporter, John Webb) on the hit TV CW show BLACK LIGHTNING.  He has also appeared in the TV shows: NASHVILLE, Tyler Perry’s The Have and Have Nots, Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva, BET’s The Game as well as MTV’s Teen Wolf.  In the creatively written Christian film, Generosity, he played a prosecutor in a fantastic court room scene.

Tommy  has always enjoyed being in front of a crowd.  For 14 years he emceed the ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament’s halftime contests and promotions that took place at center court.  He also emceed the ACC Fan Fest during the tournament weekends.  In addition, he has emceed all the events surrounding the ACC FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS (2011-14) as well as the 2012 BELK BOWL in Charlotte, N.C.

In 2015, Tommy was asked to be one of the award announcers at the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles.

Here are some of Tommy’s accomplishments over his lifetime that he pulls his powerful and uplifting talks from:

Named the MVP of Michael Jordan’s 1st ever basketball camp while in HS; in college he worked as a team manager for the legendary Jim Valvano at NC State then realized a childhood dream of playing basketball at NC State; has won 13 regional Emmy Awards and nominated for 28 total;  coached High School basketball for 14yrs; traveled the world as a youth basketball coach in the summers – winning ; hosted a multiple Emmy Award winning TV show for the ACC called ACC ROAD TRIP – where he lived out every college football fan’s dreams (i.e – running the hill with the Clemson Tigers, marching with the UVA marching band, etc, etc); emceed the halftimes of numerous ACC basketball tournaments and ACC FanFests; worked with Denzel Washington and John Goodman as a reporter in the movie FLIGHT; directed by Clint Eastwood in the movie RICHARD JEWELL; appeared in numerous TV shows (including Black Lightning) and commercials; hosted the Emmy Award winning “HOT WHEEL MONSTER TRUCKS LIVE CRUSHIN’ IT” TV show; and most importantly… the father of two beautiful daughters.

Here are a few of Tommy’s favorite speaking topics:

1) Putting yourself in a POSITION TO WIN

2) PERSPECTIVE - The Key to a Happy Life!

3) Regrets?  NO.  JUST DO IT

4) Give them a chance to SAY "NO"