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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: WVUE-DT, WDSU, WWL-TV, WNTZ-TV, WGNO, KTVE, KTBS-TV, List of television stations in Louisiana, KTAL-TV, KLFY-TV, KADN-TV, KALB-TV, Louisiana Public Broadcasting, KNOE-TV, WUPL, WNOL-TV, KBCA, KATC, KLAX-TV, WLAE-TV, WYES-TV, KARD, WHNO, KFOL-CD, KLAF-LP, KBTR-CA, WPXL-TV, KVHP, KGLA-DT, KLWB, KAQY, Catholic Life, KPBN-LP, Metro 21, WLFT-CA, KDCG-CD, KMCT-TV, KALB-DT2, KAJN-LP, KWBJ-CD, KCDH-LP, KWCE-LP, Cox 4, KNOV-CD, KADO-LP, KNTS-LP, WTNO-LP, K28IL, K47JO. Excerpt: WVUE-DT, broadcasting on virtual channel 8, is a TV station in New Orleans, Louisiana, affiliated with the Fox Broadcasting Company. WVUE is owned by Louisiana Media Company, with studios in the Gert Town section of New Orleans and transmitter in Chalmette, Louisiana. WVUE began broadcasting on Sunday, November 1, 1953 as WJMR-TV, the second TV station in New Orleans (behind WDSU-TV, channel 6) and the third in Louisiana (behind WDSU and WAFB in Baton Rouge). Originally broadcasting on channel 61, it then moved to channel 20 in 1956 . It was originally a CBS affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. During 1957 and 1958 WJMR-TV simulcasted its signal on Channel 12 using the call sign KK2XFW-TV . When WWL-TV (channel 4) signed on in 1957, WWL took over the CBS affiliation because of WWL radio's longtime affiliation with CBS radio. WJMR was left with ABC. The station moved to channel 13 on January 13, 1959 and changed call letters to WVUE. The station moved to channel 12 in 1962 due to interference with WLOX in Biloxi, Mississippi, which also broadcasts on channel 13. Screen Gems, the television arm of Columbia Pictures, bought the station in 1965. On June 8, 1970 at 8:00 PM, it made a highly-publicized switch of dial positions with the city's PBS station, WYES-TV, and moved to its current location on channel 8. This was done to give WVUE a larger broa...
