WVUE New Orleans

The former GM of KPTV Portland, Ore., is chosen to be the first director of sales at Raycom’s New Orleans Fox affiliate.

RTDNA today announced the winners of the 2016 National Edward R. Murrow Awards, which honors outstanding work produced by radio, television and online news organizations. In large-market television, WXIA-WATL Atlanta scored a triple win for Continuing Coverage, Investigative Reporting and Writing. In small-market television, WVUE New Orleans had a double win for Series and Use of Video and WISC Madison, Wis., got a triple win for Overall Excellence, Newscast and Feature Reporting.

Louisiana Media Co.’s Fox affiliate WVUE New Orleans (DMA 51) is changing its morning newscast. Longtime anchor team John Snell and Nancy Parker will take over the Fox 8 Morning Edition […]

After 35 years, Raycom-operated Fox affiliate WVUE New Orleans (DMA 51) is naming a new chief meteorologist as David Bernard makes the move to evenings in preparation for Bob Breck’s […]

Fox-owned WVUE New Orleans (DMA 51) has David Bernard, a former CBS network hurricane expert. He will team up with meteorologist Bob Breck on the station’s severe weather team. Bernard […]

Sources say that Fox wants to trade its WOFL Orlando, Fla., to get WVUE in New Orleans, which is owned by Louisiana Media Co., but run by Raycom. Fox wants to own the Fox station in the Big Easy, home to the NFL New Orleans Saints, a strategy it’s followed before.

This week’s Social Scorecard looks at New Orleans (DMA) 51, where Louisiana Media Co.-owned WVUE leads in total social actions as well as holding the top spot in Facebook actions. The Advance-owned Times-Picayune wears the crown on Twitter and Instagram actions, however, while Gannett Co.-owned WWL-TV commands the largest number of fans and followers.

The News Orleans Fox affiliate says U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s latest campaign ad misrepresents remarks anchor John Snell made during Friday’s broadcast. Landrieu is in jeopardy of losing her Senate seat to Republican challenger Bill Cassidy in Saturday’s runoff.

An accidental technical glitch at the New Orleans Fox affiliate caused 1 minute and 24 seconds of Sunday’s (May 4) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey to be abruptly overrun with a news promo, a seat-belt-safety public-service announcement and commercials. The problem: The interruption occurred while host Neil DeGrasse Tyson was in the middle of a discussion about how global climate change millions of years ago set the stage for the primates-to-humans evolutionary journey.

The combined investigative efforts of WVUE and NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune produced Louisiana Purchased, an exhaustive, data-heavy investigation, yielding about two dozen TV news stories, 73 articles, an online database of more than 741,000 individual contributions — and a 2013 Peabody Award. And it may also be the future template for other ambitious media outlet cooperative journalism..

What WTVF, WBZ, KING and WVUE did to win the coveted broadcasting award.

New Orleans Fox affiliate WVUE owner Tom Benson announced Wednesday that his Louisiana Media Co. reached a shared services agreement with Raycom Media that “allows the New Orleans-based television station to remain locally-owned, and expands its regional opportunities.”

A report Monday on WDSU New Orleans’ website that an Alabama group backed by Raycom Media  is “closing in on a deal” to purchase WVUE New Orleans is incorrect, says a spokesman for WVUE owner Louisiana Media Co.

WVUE New Orleans’ Louisiana’s Own campaign began with music and lyrics created by General Manager Joe Cook.“I know general managers are supposed to be logical, bottom-line oriented,” Cook says, “and I am, but I also wanted to do something to lift the emotions of this area for all it’s been through since Katrina.”

Advance Publications’ announcement in May that it was cutting back the print edition of New Orleans’ venerable newspaper The Times-Picayune and expanding digital coverage sent shockwaves through the city, raising a tremendous hue and cry from the daily’s print loyalists. The question now facing “Crescent City” media is whether the market is ready to embrace a digitally-centric news future. But that media isn’t waiting on an answer: Recent weeks have brought announcements of new digital alliances and initiatives, not to mention some cosmetic surgery for the much-maligned interface at NOLA.com.

Former Disney/ABC Domestic Television exec Curtis Pace will lead the efforts of the New Orleans affiliate of the new broadcast TV network for African Americans.

Dish subscribers lost the Fox affiliate starting at midnight on Tuesday, Jan. 31, when its previous retransmission consent agreement with the satellite provider expired.

After two months on the New Orleans’ Fox affil’s ch. 8.2, the new African-American targeted network is competitive with some other stations in the market and equal to or better than numerous cable nets, the station reports.

Bounce TV, the new broadcast TV network for African Americans, today signed a distribution agreement with Louisiana Media Co.’s Fox affiliate WVUE New Orleans (DMA 52) to carry it on […]