WLAE-TV
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| WLAE-TV | |
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 New Orleans, Louisiana |
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| Channels | 32 (UHF) analog, 31 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | PBS/LPB |
| Owner | The Willwoods Community (Educational Broadcasting Foundation, Inc.) |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Call letters meaning | W Louisiana Educational Television |
| Transmitter Power | 2290 kW (analog) 117 kW (digital) |
| Website | pbs.org/wlae |
WLAE-TV is a PBS member station in New Orleans, Louisiana, broadcasting locally on channel 32. The station is one of two PBS stations serving the market; WYES is the other. Neither of the two New Orleans stations are satellites of the statewide Louisiana Public Broadcasting network. Despite this, WLAE-TV does air some programming from the statewide network.
In 1978, a group of married couples, supported by the Catholic Church, formed the Willwoods Community. On December 14, 1981, under the banner of the Educational Broadcasting Foundation, the community obtained an educational broadcast license. Finally, in July of 1984, WLAE-TV signed on as a PBS member station.
In addition to offering PBS programming, WLAE also airs local educational programming, as well as programming from Louisiana Public Broadcasting. WLAE is also one of very few PBS stations to show a daily Catholic Mass, live from St. Louis Cathedral.
WLAE is one of at least two PBS members owned and operated by a Catholic-related organisation (WXEL-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida is the other), and one of at least three run by a religious organisation in general (counting Provo, Utah's KBYU-TV).
[edit] Hurricane Katrina
Following Hurricane Katrina, WLAE sustained damage to their transmitter and they remain off the air to terrestrial viewers, but can be seen on Cox Cable systems and on DirecTV. They are slowly returning to a normal schedule, and has added a special daily Katrina-related program, A Greater New Orleans — The Road To Recovery, weekdays at 7:00 PM and 1l:00 PM.
The station planned to resume its terrestrial broadcast around August 29, 2006 — one year after the hurricane forced it off the air. The station returned to the air during the day sometime in January 2007, but will soon be available fulltime.
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| Broadcast television in the New Orleans market (Nielsen DMA #54) | ||
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WWL 4 (CBS) - WDSU 6 (NBC) - WVUE 8 (Fox) - WYES 12 (PBS/LPB) - WHNO 20 (LeSEA) - WGNO 26 (ABC) - KFOL-CA 30 / KJUN-CA 7 (Ind) - WLAE 32 (PBS) - WNOL 38 (The CW) - WPXL 49 (ION) - WUPL 54 / WBXN-CA 18 (MNTV) |
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| See also: Broadcast television stations in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi Markets | ||
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, and Other Stations in Louisiana | |
