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New Orleans TV chronology

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Ccook55

1948
WDSU/ch. 6 (NBC primary; CBS, Dumont and ABC all secondaries) signs on.

1953
WJMR/ch. 61 (CBS primary, ABC secondary) signs on.

1955
WDSU/ch. 6 drops Dumont as a secondary.

1956
WJMR/ch. 61 relocates to channel 20.

1957
WWL/ch. 4 (CBS) signs on.
WDSU/ch. 6 drops CBS and ABC as secondaries.
WYES/ch. 8 (NET) signs on.
WJMR/ch. 20 changes call to WVUE and drops CBS. It retains ABC as primary affiliation.

1959
WVUE/ch. 20 relocates to channel 13.

1962
WVUE/ch. 13 relocates to channel 12.

1966
WWOM/ch. 26 (independent) signs on.

1970
WYES and WVUE swap channel positions (WVUE now on ch. 8, WYES now on ch. 12). WYES becomes a PBS affiliate.

1971
WWOM/ch. 26 changes call to WGNO.

1984
WLAE/ch. 32 (PBS) signs on.
WNOL/ch. 38 (independent) signs on.

1986
WNOL/ch. 38 becomes a Fox affiliate.

1989
WCCL/ch. 49 (independent) signs on.

1990
WCCL/ch. 49 goes off the air.

1994
WHNO/ch. 20 (religious) signs on.
WCCL/ch. 49 (Home Shopping Network) returns.

1995
WGNO/ch. 26 becomes a WB affiliate.
WUPL/ch. 54 (UPN) signs on. It is licensed to and originates from Slidell, La.

1996
WVUE/ch. 8 switches to Fox.
WGNO/ch. 26 switches to ABC.
WNOL/ch. 38 switches to WB.

1998
WCCL/ch. 49 changes call to WPXL and becomes a Pax affiliate.

2005
WPXL/ch. 49 becomes an "I" affiliate.

2006
WNOL/ch. 38 becomes a CW affiliate.
WUPL/ch. 54 becomes a My Network TV affiliate.

2007
WHMM/ch. 42 (Telemundo) signs on. Its call changes months later to KGLA. It is licensed to and originates from Hammond, La.

2009
All analog broadcasts cease. The following station shows each's physical digital channel in parentheses and subcarriers in italics:
WWL/ch. 4 (38) - 4.2 - Live Well Network
WDSU/ch. 6 (43) - 6.2 - Me-TV
WVUE/ch. 8 (29)
WYES/ch. 12 (11) - 12.2 - PBS World; 11.3 - PBS Create
WHNO/ch. 20 (21) - 20.2 - WeatherNation; 20.3 - Family Entertainment TV
WGNO/ch. 26 (26)
WLAE/ch. 32 (31--reverted to educational independent in 2013) - 32.2 - Worldview; 32.3 - Catholic TV; 32.4 - V-Me
WNOL/ch. 38 (15) - 38.2 - This TV
KGLA/ch. 42 (42)
WPXL/ch. 49 (50) - 49.2 - qubo; 49.3 - Ion Life; 49.4 - Ion Shop; 49.5 - QVC; 49.6 - HSN
WUPL/ch. 54 (24) - 54.2 - MundoFox
 
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A correction and an addition: 2007--WPXL/ch. 49 becomes an Ion affiliate. 2009--WYES' subcarrier for PBS Create should be 12.3.
 
Ccook55 said:
1948
WDSU/ch. 6 (NBC primary; CBS, Dumont and ABC all secondaries) signs on.

1953
WJMR/ch. 61 (CBS primary, ABC secondary) signs on.

1955
WDSU/ch. 6 drops Dumont as a secondary.

1956
WJMR/ch. 61 relocates to channel 20.

1957
WWL/ch. 4 (CBS) signs on.
WDSU/ch. 6 drops CBS and ABC as secondaries.
WYES/ch. 8 (NET) signs on.
WJMR/ch. 20 changes call to WVUE and drops CBS. It retains ABC as primary affiliation.

1959
WVUE/ch. 20 relocates to channel 13.
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Actually, WJMR/WVUE Televison was affiliated to 3 networks: CBS, ABC and DuMont, which ceased functioning in 1955.

Also, WJMR moved to Channel 20 in June 1955, flipped to Channel 13 in January 1959 and flipped its calls to WVUE in February 1.
 
AH3RD said:
Actually, WJMR/WVUE Televison was affiliated to 3 networks: CBS, ABC and DuMont, which ceased functioning in 1955.

Also, WJMR moved to Channel 20 in June 1955, flipped to Channel 13 in January 1959 and flipped its calls to WVUE in February 1.
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Actually, since I researched WJMR's history completely for an article on Clarke Ingram's forthcoming UHF television history site:

WJMR was ABC primary, CBS secondary, and DuMont only for a handful of kinescoped shows and Sunday afternoon football. They actually carried more CBS programs than ABC programs due to their willingness to clear them live instead of on delayed kinescope, as they had been on WDSU. (There was a newspaper article around the time of channel 61's sign on that CBS was upset at channel 6 delaying Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town for a full seven days, then airing it at 11:00pm.)

WJMR did not "drop" CBS, it was taken away from them (and from WDSU) by WWL when it signed on September 1, 1957. Afterwards, WJMR cleared so much of the ABC schedule that WDSU had no reason to keep the secondary affiliation. One month later, WJMR began simulcasting on channel 12 via experimental authorization KK2XFW.

During that time, the owners of WJMR were locked in a three-way battle for permanent occupancy of channel 12. They received a special authorization to jointly operate on channel 13 as WVUE (the calls were never on channel 20), allocated to Biloxi MS, while a rehearing was in progress on the grant of that channel. Two of the three (the third dropped out) formally merged into a new entity and received the channel 12 grant, then simulcast for three months (with reduced power on 13).

Through all that time, there was a problem with using channel 12 in New Orleans because the only viable transmitter site was short-spaced to Jackson MS, so WVUE was operating with less than optimal power. That was the reason they negotiated the later swap with educational WYES on channel 8.

WJMR actually kept the channel 20 construction permit "in suspended operation" until 1975, when it was challenged by a new applicant for the channel.

As the late Paul Harvey would have said: Now you know the rest of the story.

P.S.: There was no "NET" in 1957. WYES would have been called an "educational" station when it signed on.
 
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1957 was a big year! They got all 3 networks at that time. Just guessing, that N.O. was probably about the 50th place to have all 3.
 
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