Media of New Orleans

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The

media of New Orleans serve a large population in the New Orleans
area as well as southeastern Louisiana and coastal Mississippi.

Newspapers

Historically, the major newspaper in the area has been The Times-Picayune; it is published three times a week on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The "Times-Pic" made headlines of its own in 2012 when owner

Baton Rouge newspaper The Advocate began a New Orleans edition in 2013. Later in 2013 the New Orleans edition became The New Orleans Advocate. In 2019, the papers merged to form The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
.

The

student-run newspaper of Tulane University. New Orleans CityBusiness is published in Metairie, but covers the weekly business news of the New Orleans metropolitan area. The Neutral Ground News[2] is an Onion-like, online satirical news publication focusing on the people, places and things of the greater New Orleans
area.

Television stations

PSIP Channel Call Sign Network Digital subchannels Owner
4.1 WWL CBS 4.2 and 4.4
QVC2, 4.8 Shop LC
Tegna, Inc.
6.1 WDSU NBC 6.2 MeTV, 6.4 Story Television, 6.5 TheGrio, 6.6 QVC Hearst Television
8.1 WVUE Fox 8.2
The365, 8.4 Ion Mystery, 8.5 Oxygen, 8.6 StartTV
Gray Television
12.1 WYES
PBS
12.2
World, 12.3 Create, 12.4 PBS Kids
Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation
20.1 WHNO CTN 20.2 CTN Lifestyle, 20.3 CTNi Christian Television Network
22 WTNO-CD Azteca América N/A
HC2 Holdings
26.1 WGNO ABC 26.2 Antenna TV, 26.3 Rewind TV, 26.4 TBD Nexstar Media Group
28.1
KNLD
Daystar Daystar Television Network
30.1 KFOL-CD Independent Folse Communications, LLC
32.1 WLAE
Public Independent
32.2 WLAE Encore, 32.3 CatholicTV Educational Broadcasting Foundation
38.1 WNOL
CW
38.2 Grit, 38.3 Comet, 38.4 Charge! Nexstar Media Group
41.1
KNOV
Independent Beach TV Properties, Inc
42.1 KGLA Telemundo 42.2 Laff, 42.3 Cozi TV, 42.4 Sonlife (via WLFT-CD) Mayavision, Inc
47.1 K20MM-D
HSN
Home Shopping Network
49.1 WPXL Ion 49.2 Grit, 49.3 Laff, 49.4 Jewelry Television 49.5 Scripps News, 49.6 HSN, 49.7 QVC, 49.8 HSN2
ION Media Networks, Inc.
54.1 WUPL MyNetworkTV 54.2 Quest, 54.3 Heroes & Icons, 54.4 Defy TV, 54.5 This TV
Tegna, Inc.

Radio

AM radio

Frequency (kHz) Call Sign Format Affiliations Owner
600 WVOG Gospel music F.W. Robbert Broadcasting
690 WQNO News/Sports talk Fox Sports Radio WTIX Inc.
750 KKNO Gospel music Robert C. Blakes Enterprises, Inc.
800 WSHO
Music
Salem Communications
Shadowlands Communications, LLC
830 KGLA Spanish Contemporary AP and CNN Sunburst Media
870 WWL
Sports
CBS and New Orleans Saints Radio Network Audacy, Inc.
940 WYLD Urban gospel
Clear Channel Communications
990 WGSO
Sports
North Shore Radio, LLC
1010 WCKW Gospel and Christian radio Covenant Network
1060 WLNO
Christian Radio
Communicom Company of Louisiana, LP
1230 WBOK
Gospel Music
ABC 26 News Bakewell Media of Louisiana, LLC
1280 WODT
Spanish Sports
ESPN Deportes
Clear Channel Communications
1320 WRJW Country/Christian/Gospel
Citadel Media and Jones Radio Networks
Pearl River Communications, Inc.
1350 WWWL Sports/Talk ESPN Radio Audacy, Inc.
1540 WFNO Spanish Tropical Telemundo and KGLA TV Crocodile Broadcasting
1560 WSLA Sports Talk Mapa Broadcasting

FM radio

Frequency (MHz) Call Sign Format Affiliations Owner
88.3 WRBH Radio for the blind and handicapped Radio For The Blind & Handicapped, Inc.
89.1 WBSN Contemporary Christian music Providence Educational Foundation
89.9 WWNO
Public
/Classical, Fine Arts, Jazz, & Talk
NPR
University of New Orleans
90.7 WWOZ Jazz, Blues, New Orleans community music New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation
91.1
WNKV
Contemporary Christian music K-Love Educational Media Foundation
91.5 WTUL Progressive Radio Tulane University
92.3 WZRH Alternative Cumulus Media
93.3 WQUE
Mainstream Urban
iHeartMedia
94.3 WTIX Oldies Fleur de Lis Broadcasting
94.9 WGUO
Classic Country
Dowdy Broadcasting
95.7 WKBU Classic rock Audacy, Inc.
97.1 WEZB Top 40 Audacy, Inc.
98.5 WYLD
Urban Adult Contemporary
iHeartMedia
98.9 WUUU Top 40/CHR Pittman Broadcasting Services, LLC
99.5 WRNO Talk Radio
Premiere Radio Networks
iHeartMedia
100.3 KLRZ
Sports
Coastal Broadcasting of Larose
100.7 WTGE Country/Sports LSU Sports and New Orleans Saints Radio Network Guaranty Broadcasting Company of Baton Rouge, LLC
101.1 WNOE Country iHeartMedia
101.9 WLMG
Adult Contemporary
Audacy, Inc.
102.3 WHIV-LP Community radio Nonprofit board
102.9 KMEZ
Urban AC
Cumulus Media
104.1 KVDU
Hot Adult Contemporary
iHeartMedia
104.5 KWMZ-FM '80s M.A.C. Broadcasting, LLC
105.3 WWL
Sports
CBS and New Orleans Saints Radio Network Audacy, Inc.
106.1 WRKN Country Cumulus Media
106.7 KKND Urban adult contemporary Cumulus Media
107.5 KNOL Spanish Top 40 Sunburst Media Louisiana, LLC

Internet radio

Station Format Affiliations Owner
Crescent City Radio
College
Loyola University New Orleans

See also

References

Bibliography

  • Stuart Babington (2010). "Shell-Shocked in New Orleans: A Competitive Press During a Bloody Season, January 1973". American Journalism. 27: 63–85.
  • Bala Baptiste (2013). "How Disc Jockey Vernon Winslow, aka Dr. Daddy-O, Racially Integrated Radio in New Orleans and Changed the Culture of the Medium".
    Louisiana History
    . 54.

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