BOONE HIRED FOR SPORTS IN SAN FRANCISCO

Former Southeastern Channel sports anchor-reporter Wesley Boone has been hired as a sports reporter in the San Francisco market, the sixth-largest television market in the United States. Boone will work for NBC Sports California out of San Jose where he will report for the Emmy-winning Cal-Hi Sports Report, considered the number one high school sports show in the nation. Both the program and NBC Sports California are owned by the San Francisco 49ers. The program airs at 6 and 10 pm. weekdays on Direct TV 698, Dish 438, Comcast 721, and U-verse 1767. It can be seen online at calhisportsbayarea.com. Boone moves to the San Francisco market barely a year after graduating from Southeastern in 2018. He was hired to his first job before he graduated as a sports anchor-reporter for his hometown station, KALB-TV Ch. 5 (NBC) in Alexandria. Some of his top stories there included features on Benny Vault, Jaylen Richard, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame, and a new three-part series on pro footballer Cody Ford of Alexandria which debuts tonight. While at the Southeastern Channel, Boone won multiple regional, state and national awards for his sports reporting and anchoring for “The Big Game” sportscast, honored as first in the nation by College Broadcasters, Inc. and one of the top four in the nation three years in a row for the College Sports Media Awards. His sports feature stories, which he’ll continue producing at NBC Sports California, won regional awards from the Associated Press College Broadcasters (reporting and videography) and the Society of Professional Journalists (videography). His directing of his short film, “Intersect”, won honorable mention Emmy recognition by the Suncoast Emmys. Boone also did play-by-play, color analyst and sideline reporting for Southeastern live game broadcasts, one of which won fourth in the nation at the Festival of Media Arts as honored by the Broadcast Education Association. Boone capped off his final year at the Southeastern Channel by winning the prestigious “Louisiana Student Broadcaster of the Year” award out of all television and radio students in the state as awarded by the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters, the first sports reporter-anchor to receive the award.