John Walls

John Walls hosts coverage for the PGA Tour on its broadcast app, PGA Tour Live, is an on-site host for Silicon Angle TV’s flagship digital broadcast, ‘The Cube’, and is an adjunct professor in Sports Industry Management in the School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown University. Prior to that, he served as Vice-President, Public Affairs, for Washington, DC-based CTIA-The Wireless Association®, for 11 years.

Before his joining CTIA, Walls was a television news and sports anchor for nearly 25 years, most recently anchoring the evening newscasts for NBC-affiliate KJRH-TV in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 2000 to 2004. Walls was a member of the original anchor team for Fox Sports Net and was based in Los Angeles from 1996 to 2000. He has also served as Sports Director for three television stations, including from 1984 to 1996 for KTUL-TV and KOTV in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He began his broadcasting career in 1978 at WWVU-TV, a PBS affiliate, in Morgantown, West Virginia before serving as host of the syndicated television program, “PM Magazine” in Texas. Walls has received numerous awards for his work in broadcasting, notably Regional News Emmys for his reporting on methamphetamine in Oklahoma and his on-location anchoring of the Timothy McVeigh execution.

Walls graduated from West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcast Journalism, and holds a master’s degree in Sports Industry Management from Georgetown University.