Kaci Koviak Biography
Kaci Koviak is an American Journalist who co-anchors KETK News at 6 and 10 p.m. She joined the KETK news team in January 2011 as a weekday morning co-anchor and co-host of East Texas Live. She has been anchoring for KETK for more than 8 years.
Kaci is a Lone Star native and grew up on a small farm outside of Athens, Texas. She graduated from the Southern Methodist University of Dallas with a bachelor’s degree in convergence journalism and was an active member of Chi Omega.
Kaci Koviak Age
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Kaci Koviak Career
Before her return to East Texas, Kaci spent more than two years working in New York City. She appeared on Fox News Strategy Room as a political commentator alongside Monica Crowley and also worked as a reporter and producer for PowerwomenTV. In addition, Kaci has worked in several newsrooms around the country, including NBC Nightly News in their Washington D.C. bureau.
Kaci Koviak Education
Koviak attended Southern Methodist University where she studied Bachelor of Arts, Broadcast Journalism, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs.
Kaci Koviak Power women TV
Responsibilities included: assisting Executive Producer in all facets of production including shooting, video editing, reporting, scriptwriting and editing, web strategy, web production, casting and coordinating location shoots. In charge of maintaining a social media presence on Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, and Youtube.
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LIFESAVING LEGACY: Abbott signs power line safety act named in honor of 3 East Texas Boy Scouts
AUSTIN, Texas (KETK) – Three families’ quest to ensure that what happened to their sons never happens again saw its final fulfillment Friday in Austin with the stroke of the governor’s pen.
Just a little over two years ago, the families of Will Brannon, 17, Heath Faucheux, 16, and Thomas Larry, 11, suffered the worst pain any family can – the deaths of three boys whose lives had barely begun. Compounding the already unimaginable pain was the knowledge that the boys’ deaths had been preventable.
Will, Heath, and Thomas were Boy Scouts with Troop 620 of Hallsville. On a hot early August day in 2017, the three were part of a single troop camping trip on the lake. Will and Heath, both Eagle Scouts, were on a catamaran on the water with Larry, mentoring him in the Boy Scout way as he learned to sail.
Disaster – and tragedy – struck when the 30-foot metal mast of their boat passed under a low-hanging power line that stretched over that section of the lake. The 12,000-volt line arched and sent a sharp jolt through the metal mast.
Will died on the boat. Heath was thrown into the water, where he died. Thomas was rescued by Boy Scout troop masters who saw the incident unfold and paddled about 200 yards to the burning boat. He was taken to a Shreveport medical center, where he later died.
The questions began immediately. Why was a power line, and a low-hanging one at that, strung across a lake where so many East Texans spend their days boating? Who is responsible for ensuring power line safety, and what are the standards?
The questions seemed to have no answer. Worse, they had been asked before. In 1982, less than a mile away from where the boys were killed, Brockett Irwin, a Longview attorney, was electrocuted after his sailboat’s mast came in contact with the same transmission line.
Steve Kattner, a survivor of that tragedy, and Irwin’s widow filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative, which operates those lines.
That lawsuit alleged the power lines were too low and that an emergency shut-off system failed to kill the line when the boat struck it, Kattner told KETK. The lawsuit was settled without a trial.
Irwin’s twin brother Thomas told KETK the boys’ deaths were unacceptable. “If you’re going to have live wire over water, then box it off so nobody can get near it or raise it, one or the other,” Irwin said.
Upshur Rural Electrical Cooperative did its part to make sure those lines in particular would not be part of another tragedy. After a year-and-a-half-long process of study and work with the Army Corps of Engineers, the coop buried the line that killed Irwin and the three Boy Scouts earlier this year.
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EXEMPLARY EDUCATORS: The region’s best teachers recognized, one wins a car
KILGORE, Texas (KETK) – On Thursday, more than 40 teachers across East Texas were recognized as being a ‘Teacher of the Year’ for their school districts.
The teacher of the year award reception was held at the Region 7 Education Service Center in Kilgore, where KETK’s very own Kaci Koviak had the honor of being the “Master of Ceremonies.”
The reception was held to recognize the hard work and long hours put in by teachers and select two that would advance to the statewide teacher of the year reception held this fall.
Fourth-grade teacher, Kristina Wyman, won regional elementary teacher of the year and a 2019 Honda Accord provided by Jack O’Diamonds Honda in Tyler.
Wyman started her teaching career in Canada where she is originally from. She now teaches writing at Hallsville ISD.
“Seeing the joy and pride of a student’s face when they truly start believing in themselves is priceless. Children inspire and encourage me with their perseverance and determination to be successful, and my hope is that I inspire and encourage them just as much,” Wyman said about teaching.
High school teacher, Tammie Evans, won secondary regional teacher of the year and $5,000 cash provided by Jack O’Diamonds Honda in Tyler. Evans teaches life skills to special education students at Carthage ISD.
“A teacher is someone who overlooks the self-inflicted imperfections a child imagines they have, and carefully and purposefully finds and nurtures the potential that will help a student find his place in society. Ultimately, it is important for teachers to show students that anything is possible with faith in themselves,” Evans said about her students.
Both of these women will represent Region 7 ESC in the statewide reception for ‘Teacher of the Year’ this fall.
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In a powerful display of solidarity, the “William Thomas Heath Power Line Safety Act” was unanimously passed by the Texas House of Representatives Friday.
Authored by Texas Representative Chris Paddie of Marshall, and co-authored by Texas Representative Jay Dean of Longview, the bill to strengthen power line safety inspections and transparency with the public, had no opposition in the Texas House of Representatives Thursday or Friday, with 145 years and zero nays.
During the vote, there were no party lines. On Thursday, every State Representative stood in solidarity for the bill and gave a standing ovation to the boys’ parents who were sitting in the balcony, witnessing the bill make its way through the legislative process.
In August 2017, three boy scouts were sailing on Lake O’ the Pines when their mast came in contact with a low hanging power line. All three boys, Will Brannon, Thomas Larry, and Heath Faucheux were electrocuted.
Since their deaths, the boys’ parents have been working side-by-side with their state lawmakers to prevent this horrifying tragedy from ever happening to another family.
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