| WNOL-TV | |
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| New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| Branding | NOLA 38 (general) ABC 26 News (newscasts) |
| Channels | Digital: 15 (UHF) Virtual: 38 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | The CW |
| Owner | Tribune Company (Tribune Television New Orleans, Inc.) |
| First air date | March 25, 1984 |
| Call letters’ meaning | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Sister station(s) | WGNO |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 38 (1984-2009) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1984-1986) Fox (1986-1996) The WB (1996-2006) |
| Transmitter Power | 660 kW |
| Height | 309 m |
| Facility ID | 54280 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 29°58′57.4″N 89°56′57.8″W / 29.982611°N 89.949389°W |
| Website | www.nola38.com |
WNOL-TV, broadcasting on virtual channel 38, is a CW Television Network affiliate in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is owned by Tribune Broadcasting, and is a sister station to ABC affiliate WGNO.
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History
WNOL-TV signed on in March 1984 as a general entertainment independent television station as well as New Orleans' second, after WGNO, running a variety of cartoons, sitcoms, older movies, drama shows, and religious programs (a lot of which were formerly seen on WGNO). Its slogan was, "Don't Stay Home Without Us," a homage to Karl Malden's American Express commercial campaign.
In 1985, the station was sold to the TVX Broadcast Group. Along with the other stations in the TVX group, WNOL affiliated with Fox in 1986 (it has been said that when WGNO passed on the Fox affiliation, TVX used WNOL's affiliation with Fox as leverage to get Fox on its other stations, TVX actually affiliated all their stations with Fox). In 1987, TVX acquired Taft Broadcasting's independent stations and Fox affiliates. The next year, TVX sold off many of its stations. In 1989 TVX sold WNOL to Qwest Broadcasting, a company owned by minority investors led by musician Quincy Jones. WNOL continued to offer Fox programming, cartoons, sitcoms, movies, and drama shows into the 1990's.
In 1995, Fox entered into a partnership with Savoy Pictures to buy several television stations, one of them being New Orleans's longtime ABC affiliate WVUE (channel 8). As a result, the Fox affiliation, including Fox Kids programming, moved from WNOL to WVUE on January 1, 1996. WNOL, on the other hand, acquired the WB affiliation from WGNO -- which in turn picked up ABC from WVUE. As the 1990's progressed, WNOL began to shift away from classic sitcoms and moved toward more talk and reality shows during the day.
Tribune Broadcasting (which then owned a stake in the WB network) began to manage WNOL in 1996 under a local marketing agreement, and purchased the station outright in 2000 (as part of a merger with Qwest), making WNOL and WGNO sister stations. Along with other similarly formatted stations, WNOL began to move away from cartoons in 2000. When Kids' WB ended its weekday run in 2006, WNOL dropped weekday cartoons.
In 2007, WNOL moved to new studio facilities at the Galleria Center in Metairie, Louisiana, which are shared with WGNO.
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina destroyed WNOL's transmitters along with those of its sister station WGNO. Since then, both stations have been transmitting at reduced power on analog from a multi-purpose tower in Algiers. The stations were broadcasting their digital content as sub-channels of station WPXL; WNOL began transmitting their digital signal on their licensed frequency of channel 15 on March 29, 2008. As WGNO plans to broadcast digitally on their analog channel 26, WNOL and WGNO were being broadcast on UHF channel 15 in the same arrangement as they were formerly on WPXL prior to the digital switchover date with WGNO's sub-channel being carried in full HD at 720P and WNOL's restricted to 480i. On June 12, 2009, WGNO Flash-cut their digital channel to UHF 26, allowing WNOL to resume digital broadcasting in 1080i.
Network Affiliation
On January 24, 2006, the WB and UPN networks announced they would merge into a new network called The CW. WNOL was announced as the New Orleans affiliate of the CW, which commenced operations on September 18, 2006. Former UPN station WUPL (channel 54), then owned by the CBS Corporation (now owned by the Belo Corporation), became an affiliate of MyNetworkTV, a new service owned by the News Corporation.
WNOL may also take on the responsibility of airing ABC programs when WGNO is not able to such as in a news-related emergency.
Digital Television
The station's broadcasts its HD 1080i digital signal on UHF 15. WNOL had been sharing digital channel 15 with WGNO. On June 12, 2009, sister station WGNO flash cut to UHF channel 26. This allowed on WNOL to resume high definition broadcasting on UHF channel 15. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display WNOL-TV's virtual channel as "38".
Newscast
On May 1, 2006, WNOL began broadcasting a 30-minute weeknight newscast, titled "ABC 26 News at 9," which goes up against Fox affiliate WVUE-TV's hour-long primetime newscast. The newscast does not air on weekends. [1]
ABC 26 News at 9
Weeknights (9 to 9:30 P.M.)
- Anchor:
- Jessica Holly
- Weather:
- Bruce Katz
WNOL features additional news personnel from WGNO. See that article for a complete listing.
External links
- WNOL NOLA38 Homepage
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WNOL
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WNOL-TV
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