BOONE IS SPORTSCASTER IN SHREVEPORT

Former Southeastern Channel sports anchor-reporter Wesley Boone has been hired as a sports anchor-reporter by KTAL-TV Ch. 6 (NBC) in Shreveport (DMA 86). At KTAL Boone anchors the sportscasts every weekend and at various times during the week. He will be anchoring the station’s Friday Night Blitz prep football highlights show this fall. Boone covers sports in north Louisiana, southern Arkansas, and East Texas regions. Some of his recent stories include Green Oaks wide receiver De’Coldest Crawford, Haughton two-sport star C.J. McWilliams and Pleasant Grove baseball star Jackson Cobb. Boone moved to Shreveport from San Francisco, the sixth-largest television market in the United States, where he was a sports reporter for NBC Sports California and reported for the Emmy-winning Cal-Hi Sports Report. Boone worked in San Francisco 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 (DMA 178). 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 KTAL, 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.