Robert Gonsoulin
Sports BRoadcaster & Producer
About Me
Sports have always taken the number one spot for my greatest passion since I was young. My fascinations for different teams, games, athletes and coaches consistently drive me to want to work in its community and express my own love for the ways they all motivate us. Early on, I knew that sports reporting would be the perfect outlet for me to immerse myself into a world that brings a tremendous amount of people closer together. As I have gained valuable experience through different opportunities, both at the professional level and at the University of Texas at Austin, I’ve learned more about the currently changing broadcast and streaming landscape around sports, understanding the ways in which stories can best be delivered through different platforms.
Beginning in early 2026, I began my first and current professional reporting position as the Sports Director for News Channel 6 KAUZ, the CBS affiliate of Texoma. Since taking on this position, I’ve been tasked with leading and overseeing the coverage of the station’s sports department and anchoring on weekdays. It’s so far been a great joy covering the many local teams in the Texoma area and getting to know the people of its community. As I prepare to learn and grow as a reporter in this new chapter, I really look forward to providing my own creative perspective towards enhancing KAUZ’s sports department and also having many opportunities to cover unique events.
In May of 2025, I graduated from UT Austin with a Bachelor’s of Journalism and Business Minor. My four years at the school were often characterized by my work in the sports department of Texas Student Television (TSTV), UT Austin’s official FCC-licensed, student-broadcast station. Each week, I would perform various on-air or off-air roles for its shows, including hosting them, analyzing professional and collegiate sports, producing video content and working in master control. During the 2024-25 academic school year, I served as the recurring host for the sports debate show, College Crossfire, on Wednesday nights, where I wrote each episode’s script, produced its video content and scored panelists based on their answers to questions about major sports news. Aside from studio reporting, I gained valuable MMJ experience by covering many live Texas sporting events, like football and basketball games, and attending media availabilities on behalf of the station to turn and produce my own PKGs.
In the summer of 2023, I interned for KXAN-TV, Austin, Texas’ local NBC affiliate station owned by Nexstar Media Group. Throughout this internship, I worked alongside sports reporters, cutting VOs and VOSOTs for their segments of the nightly newscasts and shadowing them as they conducted sports stories in the field.
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