Boyd Matson is the former anchor of National Geographic Explorer

National Geographic Explorer

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and a former co-anchor of NBC

NBC

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's Weekend Today

Weekend Today

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program. He was also an NBC News

NBC News

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 correspondent in the 1980s, working mostly on news features and earlier as a sports reporter on KNBC in Los Angeles. He now hosts the show Wild Chronicles on PBS and the nation-wide radio program NG Weekend. Matson also writes a monthly column for NG Traveler magazine. He lives in Virginia

Virginia

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with his wife Betty Hudson and his two children.