September-October 2018 Issue of Inside Northside Magazine

Page 44

On the Air! by-play announcer John Sartori and color analyst Wesley Boone; camera operator Courtney Bruno; Southeastern Channel students man the control room during a Lion basketball broadcast; and camera operators Christine Grunder and Dante Butler. 44

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won for its live broadcast of the Southeastern vs. Southern University - New Orleans basketball game on December 14, 2017. The same broadcast has also received honors from the Emmys given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Suncoast Emmy region. The all-student production featured John Sartori of Mandeville as play-by-play announcer with Wesley Boone of Alexandria as color commentator. Dylan Domangue of Houma was the courtside reporter, while Freddie Rosario of Hahnville was both director and technical director. Other student crew members included Andrew Scherer of New Orleans, Tyler Guidroz of Ponchatoula, Jordan Rheams of Baton Rouge, Courtney Bruno of New Orleans, Richie Solares of New Orleans, Tyler Rogers of Hammond, Alexander Castro of Hammond, Schuylar Ramsey of Springfield, Zechariah Cameron of Baton Rouge, Taylor Sharp of Walker, Blair Joseph of Hammond and Adam Cortez of El Paso, Texas. >>

photos courtesy: SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY

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THEY – COULD – GO – ALL – THE – WAY! And why shouldn’t they? Southeastern Louisiana University students who work with The Southeastern Channel to cover Lion Sports receive real-world and in many cases real-time experience in sportscasting— opportunities afforded students at only a handful of universities across the nation and only at Southeastern in Louisiana. Students at the Emmy-winning Southeastern Channel cover all announcing and technical crew positions for live broadcasts of almost every university sport with their work often airing on national sports networks. The professional-looking quality of their broadcasts has been honored as among the best in the country. The Southeastern Channel was recently named fourth in the nation for “Television Sports Event Production,” winning the Award of Excellence from the Broadcast Education Association at its 2018 Festival of Media Arts in Las Vegas. The channel

Southeastern’s Award-Winning Student Sportscasters


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