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WWL-4 Now Originating News Coverage From Transmitter Site

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Joseph_Gallant

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This afternoon (August 30th), while watching the webstream of WWL-4's live coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the station, after having originated coverage from a studio at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge since Sunday, is now originating coverage from a makeshift studio in one of the rooms at their transmitter site.

A reporter at the transmitter site said that much of the video being shot was still being shipped to Baton Rouge and from there was fed to the transmitter.

Aerial footage broadcast late this afternoon (which was taped some hours earlier by a helicopter from a Houston station that was loaned to WWL) showed flooding in much of the city, but not yet at WWL's main studios (I could tell it was their main studio because of the satellite dishes and several WWL news trucks parked outside). That may have changed.

Update, 6:50 P.M. EDT: WWL has gone back to originating coverage from Baton Rouge. So it's very possible that coverage will be switching back-and-forth between Baton Rouge and the transmitter site.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Joseph_Gallant on 08/30/05 10:51 PM.</FONT></P>
 
Re: Where is WWL-TV vet Angela Hill?

I have been watching coverage from WWL-TV whenever possible and with staff at the transmitter and in Baton Rouge but have not seen Angela Hill. Angela is currently the 6pm co-anchor but I believe totally absent from the coverage.
 
Re: Where is WWL-TV vet Angela Hill?

Could she have been on vacation overseas and unable to return to the States (or to Louisiana)??

The week or so prior to Labor Day is a popular time for news anchors to take vacations. Had it not been for the hurricane, the anchors of the network newscasts most likely would have been off this week (August 29th-September 2nd).
 
Re: Where is WWL-TV vet Angela Hill?

> Could she have been on vacation overseas and unable to
> return to the States (or to Louisiana)??
>
> The week or so prior to Labor Day is a popular time for news
> anchors to take vacations. Had it not been for the
> hurricane, the anchors of the network newscasts most likely
> would have been off this week (August 29th-September 2nd).
>

The staff blog on the WWL website says that she was in NO at the time of the hurricane, and they had no word from her as of yet.
 
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