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Update On WWL-4 And WDSU-6 Coverage (By Watching Streaming Video)

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The two New Orleans TV stations, who have been streaming their live coverage of Hurricane Katrina, have been forced to move their anchor desk operations out-of-town due the impending storm. Both did so late Sunday evening (August 28th).

WWL-4 has set up a temporary newsroom at Lousiana State University in Baton Rouge, and is originating their coverage from a TV studio normally utilized by the college's TV production classes.

WDSU-6 has fled to the studio of WAPI-16 in Jackson, Mississppi, owned by WDSU parent company Hearst/Argyle. However, WAPI is an ABC affiliate. Both are simulcasting live wall-to-wall coverage.

Both stations are still streaming coverage of the storm through their websites (at least for now; it's still possible that the storm could disrupt these streams at some point).

I would think that Fox affiliate WVUE-8 and ABC affiliate WGNO-26 have also fled their normal studios, probably originating coverage at, respectively, Fox and ABC affiliates in a nearby market that will not score a "direct hit" from the worst of the storm.
 
The WWL stream went down for me. I am now watching the WDSU stream. While they are mixing the WAPT and WDSU news folks it is very apparent the difference of the markets. The folks on the Jackson team are almost ameturish compared to the WDSU news folks.
 
> The WWL stream went down for me. I am now watching the WDSU
> stream. While they are mixing the WAPT and WDSU news folks
> it is very apparent the difference of the markets. The
> folks on the Jackson team are almost ameturish compared to
> the WDSU news folks.
>

I've had WWL running for almost an hour solid without drop outs right now... looks like they re-routed the streaming as the streamer is ID'ing as 'KHOU Houston' (another Belo station)
 
You are right. They changed the link. I am copying the link directly into media player so I can have a bigger picture... so, I did not realize the change.
 
WDSU also appears to be mixing in elements from WESH/Daytona Beach, FL. A couple of times, the video has dropped out (though not the audio), and at one point, I heard the EAS sounder.

WDSU has a camera overlooking the Superdome, but it's shaking violently already.

WVUE's live camera over New Orleans appears to have gone kaput already (judging from IA6/K20 D5, which we have dialed in at my FOX O&O employer).





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> WDSU also appears to be mixing in elements from WESH/Daytona
> Beach, FL. A couple of times, the video has dropped out
> (though not the audio), and at one point, I heard the EAS
> sounder.
>
> WDSU has a camera overlooking the Superdome, but it's
> shaking violently already.

WDSU's staff is using WAPT-16/Jackson, MS as their temporary studios and is simulcasting both stations for now, giving updates to viewers in central Mississippi and New Orleans.
 
> The two New Orleans TV stations, who have been streaming
> their live coverage of Hurricane Katrina, have been forced
> to move their anchor desk operations out-of-town due the
> impending storm. Both did so late Sunday evening (August
> 28th).
>
> WWL-4 has set up a temporary newsroom at Lousiana State
> University in Baton Rouge, and is originating their coverage
> from a TV studio normally utilized by the college's TV
> production classes.
>
> WDSU-6 has fled to the studio of WAPI-16 in Jackson,
> Mississppi, owned by WDSU parent company Hearst/Argyle.
> However, WAPI is an ABC affiliate. Both are simulcasting
> live wall-to-wall coverage.
>
> Both stations are still streaming coverage of the storm
> through their websites (at least for now; it's still
> possible that the storm could disrupt these streams at some
> point).
>
> I would think that Fox affiliate WVUE-8 and ABC affiliate
> WGNO-26 have also fled their normal studios, probably
> originating coverage at, respectively, Fox and ABC
> affiliates in a nearby market that will not score a "direct
> hit" from the worst of the storm.
>
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> I would think that Fox affiliate WVUE-8 and ABC affiliate
> WGNO-26 have also fled their normal studios, probably
> originating coverage at, respectively, Fox and ABC
> affiliates in a nearby market that will not score a "direct
> hit" from the worst of the storm.
>
You'd think WVUE Fox 8 would've gotten some help from its Mobile, AL sister stations(though they were plenty busy themselves): WALA-TV Fox 10 or WBPG 55 "The Gulf Coast's WB". I know 10 stayed on the air throughout Katrina.

Both stations could've been a big help in spite of their new impending ownership from LIN Television. Another possibility could've been Fox-owned WBRC "Fox 6" out of Birmingham, AL, well out of the way of hurricane-force fury.

EDIT: WVUE did seek some broadcast help from WALA:

http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=20&ID=239721&r=0

In the newsroom at Fox affiliate WVUE, an employee who answered the telephone Sunday morning said he and others were preparing to leave the station’s headquarters on Jefferson Davis Parkway en route to their sister station, WALA, in Mobile, Ala., 143 miles to the east.

Other New Orleans television stations, such as WGNO, WWL and WDSU, likewise decided to move some of their reporters and their expensive satellite trucks out of town, most to Baton Rouge, about 80 miles to the northwest, and in at least one case to Jackson, Miss., 195 miles north.<P ID="signature">______________
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