Former Southeastern Channel sports anchor-reporter Wesley Boone has been promoted to the position of Sports Director for KTAL-TV Ch. 6 (NBC) in Shreveport (DMA 86). As Sports Director at KTAL, Boone now supervises and directs all of the station’s sports programming covering north Louisiana, southern Arkansas, and East Texas. He also anchors sportscasts and delivers sports stories like Denny Duron resuming head coaching duties at Evangel, a special coaching connection, and the LHSAA prep classic moving to Natchitoches. Boone co-hosts the popular Friday Night Blitz with former Southeastern Channel cohort John Sartori along with KTAL’s Sunday Night Blitz program. Boone was promoted to sports director in September after joining KTAL less than a year earlier in March 2020 as a sports reporter. Prior to KTAL, Boone worked as a sports reporter in San Francisco, the sixth-largest television market in the country, for the number one high school sports show in the nation, the Emmy-winning 49ers 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 (NBC) in Alexandria (DMA 181). 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 continues to produce at KTAL, won first-place regional awards from the Associated Press College Broadcasters and the Society of Professional Journalists along with his videography. Boone won an honorable mention student Emmy for directing his short film, “Intersect”. His play-by-play, color commentary and sideline reporting for live Southeastern game broadcasts led to a basketball broadcast winning fourth in the nation at the Broadcast Education Association’s (BEA) Festival of Media Arts. 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.
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