TWILA Team
A.J. Sabine, Assistant Producer & Reporter
(Reporting from Washington, D.C. in 2009)
A.J. Sabine has been on the air for nearly 20 years. A New Orleans native, A.J. got his first “on air” break as a country music DJ on KXKC radio in New Iberia. Simultaneously, A.J. worked on the “Good Morning Acadiana” show at the ABC affiliate, KATC TV 3 in Lafayette, all while getting his undergraduate degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
From there, A.J. started telling the story of the people of Acadiana through the lens of his video camera as a news photographer at KATC. A.J.’s passion for news took him to the Midlands of South Carolina at NBC affiliate WIS-TV. At WIS, A.J. literally “spread his wings” as an airborne traffic reporter and photographer on the WIS NewsHawk helicopter.
While in the Palmetto State, A.J. covered major news events, including the 2000 Presidential Primaries, to the historic removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House, and the remarkable raising of the Civil War submarine, C.S.S. H.L. Hunley.
In 2002, A.J. came home to WAFB-TV 9 in Baton Rouge, as a general assignments reporter and photographer. It wasn’t long before he got the call of agriculture and brought his storytelling experience to the turn rows and open vistas of rural Louisiana.
“It’s important to give agriculture a fresh perspective,” he says. “Farming affects us all and if I can tell the story in an interesting and entertaining way, it may give someone an appreciation of what producers are up against."
When he’s not covering farm news, A.J. loves spending time with his family, cruising the interstate on his Harley, and dabbling in community theatre as an actor at the Baton Rouge Little Theatre.
