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Previewing WDSU’s Fat Tuesday Coverage

Posted on February 20, 2012 | 1 Comment

WDSU has a huge production planned for Fat Tuesday. It all begins at 4:30 a.m. with Randi Rousseau, Jay Galle’ and Rose Flores on WDSU News This Morning. Norman Robinson, Mardi Gras Guide Arthur Hardy and I pick up the coverage at 7 a.m. from the Hotel Intercontinental downtown. WDSU reporters will be stationed across the city to bring home every aspect of the climax of the Carnival season during the most extensive coverage in town.

We’ll be live on the air and online at WDSU.com until 3 p.m.

I’ll also be updating Facebook, Twitter and this website all day from our perch at Intercontinental.

Here’s a preview:

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[VIDEO] Shoes, Makeup & Hair Questions

Posted on January 27, 2012 | Leave a comment

Viewers posed questions on the WDSU Facebook page and Camille, Margaret and I answered.

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The Interview: One-On-One w/Gov. Scott Walker

Posted on September 12, 2011 | Leave a comment

I tracked down Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at the Saints/Packers last Thursday and talked to him about how sharing the same name in his state can be a little unnerving (to say some people aren’t very fond of him is putting it mildly). We also chatted about his bet with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Lambeau Field in January. Click HERE to watch the interview.

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WDSU Invades Packer Country

Posted on September 11, 2011 | Leave a comment

TVSpy.com Article

I did a lot of radio and TV interviews during our week in Green Bay and most revolved around the Saints, our rented Packerfied house and “Hey you have the same name as our Governor.”

TVSpy did a nice write-up on what we were up to while in Green Bay.  And here’s a look at a story I did with the Hearst station in Milwaukee, WISN.

And here’s a quick video from the NBC station in Green Bay.

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Green Bay Trip: A Look Back, Plus Video Highlights

Posted on September 10, 2011 | Leave a comment

What a fun week (even with a Saints loss). Green Bay is a beautiful place — in September. I’d hate to be at Lambeau in January. The people were great, too. Our neighbors grilled up 70 brats for us and one of our engineers cooked some Gumbo that we shared with them. Coach Mora loved the brats. He might have killed half of them.

To recap, sports anchor Chris Miles and I arrived in Green Bay Sunday night and did our first live shot that night at 10. We were live in every newscast after that through game day. Sports anchor Fletcher Mackel arrived Wednesday.

I was very proud of the effort put forth by our team in Green Bay. We had roughly 15 people there during the course of our coverage and they all played a pivotal role in us putting some incredible content on the air. I’ve never been involved in such a major production and it went as close to flawlessly one could hope for.

Plus our backdrop was great. Lambeau Field behind us was pretty impressive.

Below are my trip highlights. Pictures to come soon.

The Governor of Wisconsin is named Scott Walker and sharing his name made my week in Green Bay interesting. A lot of people like him and a lot of people hate him. I tracked him down before the game on Thursday. Check out the interview HERE.

The PackerPlex – The decked out house we stayed in all week. It made telling this story easy.

The Packers Hall of Fame is great. I even got to wear a Super Bowl ring and attempt the Lambeau Leap.

If you’re ever in Green Bay and are looking for a good brew, hit up the Titletown Brewery in Downtown Green Bay. Great people, great beer.

There is a lot of great food unique to Wisconsin. The executive chef of Lambeau Field showed me some of his favorite dishes.

There is a fence in Green Bay that’s a pretty big deal. People from all over the community come over to paint it each year before the season opener.

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WDSU News at 4: Number One in July

Posted on August 3, 2011 | Leave a comment

Less than two years after debuting New Orleans’ first 4 p.m. newscast, WDSU News at 4 finished the July sweeps period as the most watched program in the time slot. Thanks to our loyal viewers who choose us every weekday afternoon!

Take a look at the new promo airing on WDSU:

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Article: WDSU-TV’s Scott Walker Continues His Father’s New Orleans Airwaves Legacy

Posted on June 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

This Father’s Day was extra special because of the article that ran in Sunday’s Times-Picayune. Thanks to Dave Walker (no relation) for doing a fantastic job keeping the timeline and all the different jobs straight…although he did add an extra year to my age. I just turned 36. ;-)

Here’s an excerpt:

Scott worked part time for a Hattiesburg TV station off and on through college, but remembers that his first full-time annual sportscaster salary offer was $12,500, bumped to $16,500 thanks to a job offer from a station elsewhere.

Young TV news people often market-hop, and Scott Walker did. En route from Hattiesburg to Jackson to Gulfport-Biloxi to Mobile to Orlando there was a marriage (to Jennifer, whom Scott met at Southern Miss) and a son. Scott also moved to news from sports during one of those career stops, a decision he does not regret today.

Orlando was the comparative big time, a high-profile slot anchoring a morning news show on an NBC affiliate in a top-20 media market.

Scott was lucky to stay close to home during those years, even in Orlando, a quick air hop away, but the prospect of actually working in his hometown never seemed likely. And the question came up a lot.

“I would always say, ‘I don’t know,’” Scott said. “I really wanted to say ‘Never,’ because I thought that’s how it would pan out.

“I thought, once I got to Orlando, it wasn’t going to happen, that that chapter had passed.

“When I said we were moving back, it took everybody by surprise.”

CLICK HERE to read the rest.

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Promo Shoot

Posted on March 23, 2011 | Leave a comment

Promo shoots are always fun…especially when the promo people talk about anchors looking lovingly at each other. Sometimes we exaggerate and one of said promo people captures the moment.

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SWTV Rewind: WDAM Reopen (1995)

Posted on March 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

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I'm Not THAT Scott Walker…

Posted on February 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

Not me.

But all the traffic coming into this website from Wisconsin would almost make one think otherwise.

I’m Scott Walker, news anchor.

He’s Scott Walker, governor.

Things at my job are going pretty well. His…not so much.

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Out in NOLA

Posted on January 3, 2011 | Leave a comment

Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones, Fletcher Mackel and me at the ‘Merry Mackel Christmas Party’ on Christmas Eve.

Photo: Steven Forster / The Times-Picayune

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Tonight on WDSU: Saints on 6

Posted on December 27, 2010 | 1 Comment

WDSU’s pregame coverage of the Saints/Falcons Monday Night Football matchup begins at 4 p.m. I’ll be in-studio while sports anchors Fletcher Mackel and Keli Fulton will be live from the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. After 3 1/2 hours of live coverage, the game airs locally on WDSU at 7:30. Immediately following the game, we’ll continue our live coverage with postgame interviews and reaction.

With a win tonight, the Saints clinch a playoff berth and would still have a shot at the NFC’s top seed and home field advantage throughout the playoffs. But for that to happen, the Falcons would have to lose — at home — to the Carolina Panthers, the worst team in the league. If the Saints don’t clinch the top seed, they would likely nail down the #5 seed and hit the road for the playoffs.

The Saints still control their playoffs destiny — with a win in either of the final two games, tonight against Atlanta or next week at home against the Buccaneers, the Saints are in as a wild card. If they don’t win their final two games and finish 10-6, they’ll need some help from other teams fighting for a playoff spot.

Here’s a nugget from the Saints: Drew Brees has a 4-game Monday Night Football winning streak. During the streak, he has completed 75.8% of his passes, thrown for 1,256 yards, 13 TDs and 1 INT. That translates to a quarterback rating of 141.5.

With that in mind, I think the Saints win a close one, 31-27.

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Ramblings: Half Marathon, Saints

Posted on October 31, 2010 | Leave a comment

WDSU morning anchor Melanie Hebert and me broadcasting live from the balcony of Ernst Cafe in the Warehouse District.

Half Marathon

The Second Annual Jazz Half Marathon benefiting Children’s Hospital was a huge success. Around $24,000 was raised last year. This year during our four-hour broadcast, $40,000 was raised. Incredible.

The winner of the 13.1 mile race, Matt Manning, shattered last year’s winning time of 1:12:37. Manning, 30, cruised to the finish line in 1:11:05. Click here for video of the winning moment from WDSU.com (that’s yours truly on the call, along with WDSU morning anchor Melanie Hebert).

The race was a lot of fun, but shining the spotlight on what Children’s Hospital is all about was equally as rewarding.

Saints

The Saints on 6 pregame show gets started at 2 p.m. Former head coach Jim Mora is back with us again, along with sports anchors Fletcher Mackel and Keli Fulton, Brad Edelman, Lolo Jones and more. I make a cameo, interviewing NBC’s Sunday Night Football play-by-play man Al Michaels.

This is a mid-season must-win for the Saints. And I think they will. After last week’s dreadful performance in a loss to the Browns, if the Saints are entertaining any thoughts of another playoff run, now is the time to start moving in that direction. 5-3 at the halfway point is a lot better than 4-4 and puts the team in a solid playoff position in the watered-down NFC.

Saints 27, Steelers 20.

 

 

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WDSU Saints Coverage Wrap

Posted on December 1, 2009 | Leave a comment

We had a blast during our pre and post-game Saints coverage. Sports anchors Fletcher Mackel and Keli Fulton held down the fort outside while I reported from the Superdome field. Countless people behind-the-scenes made the final product look top notch. The audience was huge and we delivered some excellent content during our extensive coverage. Here are a few highlights:

Saints gear selling fast at the Black and Gold Sports Shop

"I Believe" ... 22 years later

In the Kitchen with Saints offensive lineman Zach Strief

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