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TOM PACE, Executive Editor & General Manager: Shreveport.Com & Bossier.Com

Tom has 42 years media experience.  Including: radio, television, print, billboards, and the internet…and, for the past 26 years, a Senior Account Executive for Radio Advertising in the Shreveport-Bossier market.

He has served as a speaker for Radio Advertising, as well as a Media Marketing expert to various civic and business organizations around the Ark-La-Tex, including Rotary Clubs, Lions Clubs, Sci-Port, Optimists, Shriner’s Hospital for Children.

• Senior Account Executive for Radio Advertising & Marketing
• Certified Radio Marketing Consultant (C.R.M.C.) (since 1987)
• Past contributing writer: Showcase & Southern Hospitality  magazines
• Beginning Feb. ‘05: Contributing Writer/Columnist for City Lights Magazine:
• Wrote a Monthly City Lights Inspirational Column titled  “Looking Up”
• Writer, Producer & Host of “Countdown to the Independence Bowl”
• Radio Talk Show Host “Talk of Town with Tom Pace” February 05-October ’07 includes writing, producing, hosting, booking guests, coordinating segments that featured top newsmakers across Shreveport/Bossier…Louisiana & The Nation.
• Talk of the Town Guests:  Senators Landrieu & Vitter…Congressmen McCrery & Jindal… Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu.. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco…Kilpatrick Life & Rose Neath Funeral Homes CEO Virginia Shehee…Entertainers like: B.B. King…Liza Minnelli …Ed McMahon…Shelia Ray Charles…Rupert Jee  (from The Late Show with David Letterman)…Montel Williams…Musical Composer/Writer/Grammy/Emmy Awards Winner: Marvin Hamlish…Millard Fuller (Habitat for Humanity Founder)…Sen. Bob Dole…Sandy Davis (OEP, NW Louisiana Director Homeland Security) Shreveport Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran…Bossier Fire Cief Sammy Halphen…Mayors Hightower, Dement, Walker, & Glover…Area Legislators…Chamber of Commerce Directors…BPCC Chancellor Tom Carleton…
  …and many, many others.

In Short:  “Anybody Who’s Anybody, has been on Talk of the Town with Tom Pace”.

Tom Pace’s Community Service Awards include:

• Recipient: 2002 Distinguished Sales & Marketing Executive Award
• Recipient: 2002 Mainstay Independence Bowl Outstanding Volunteer Award
• Recipient 2003 Louisiana Special Olympics Outstanding Media Award
• Past-President (2004) West Shreveport Rotary Club
• Chairman, Media Committee 2002 National Medal Of Honor (MOH) Convention, Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana
• As Chairman Of The Media Committee For The 2002 MOH Convention,
• Tom Coordinated The Publicity For All Events Surrounding The September 10-12, 2002 Event…As Well As Creating And Designing The 2002 MOH Event Website (Medalofhonor2002.Com) Along With Television, Radio, Newspaper, And Billboard Marketing Campaigns: Locally, Regionally & Nationally.
• According To Shreveport-Bossier Convention & Tourist Bureau, The 2002 CMOH Media Committee Garnered Publicity Valued @ $6.5 Million for Shreveport-Bossier.
• Tom Has Also Served As Host Media Committee Chairman For :
• Miss Teen USA Pageants: 1998, 1999, 2000… And The 1997 Miss Pageant:
• All Telecast Live From Hirsch Coliseum In Shreveport, Louisiana .
• Emcee & Volunteer For Northwest Louisiana Special Olympics Trivia Nite: 2001-2006
• Tom Has Taught Speech Communications, As Well As Radio & TV  Broadcasting:
• University Of Arkansas-Little Rock (U.A.L.R.)
• Producer & Reporter For KTHV-TV Channel 11,  Little Rock, Arkansas .
• Past Coordinator For Shreveport’s Community Action Team (CAT) for MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving)
• Volunteer For M.D.A. Telethon  Since 1981
• Served As A Co-Host For Christian Services Telethon Annual Fund-Raiser,
• Broadcast On Time Warner Cable Citywide Channel 6, (December ’04)
• Tom Believes That We Are All Put Here For A Common Purpose:
• “To Help One Another”