| New Orleans, Louisiana | |
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| Branding | LAE |
| Channels | Digital: 31 (UHF) Virtual: 32 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 32.1 WLAE Main 32.2 LPB2/MHz 32.3 V-me |
| Affiliations | PBS LPB2 (DT2) MHz Worldview (DT2) V-me (DT3) |
| Owner | Educational Broadcasting Foundation Willwoods Community (50%)/ Louisiana Educational Television Authority (50%) |
| First air date | July 8, 1984 |
| Call letters' meaning | LouisianA Educational Television |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 32 (UHF, 1984-2009) |
| Transmitter power | 200 kW |
| Height | 274 m |
| Facility ID | 18819 |
| Website | www.pbs.org/wlae |
WLAE-TV, virtual channel 32, is a public television station located in New Orleans, Louisiana, serving as a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service. The station is broadcast on UHF digital channel 11.[1] The station is one of two PBS stations serving the market; WYES-TV is the other. It is owned by the Educational Broadcasting Foundation, a partnership between the Willwoods Community (a Catholic-related organization), and the Louisiana Educational Television Authority (operators of Louisiana Public Broadcasting, the PBS member for the rest of Louisiana).
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WLAE-DT broadcasts on digital channel 31.
Digital channels
This station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | Name | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WLAE-1 | Main WLAE programming / PBS HD |
| 32.2 | 480i | 4:3 | WYES-2 | LPB2 (PBS Encore) (7 a.m.-5 p.m.) MHz Worldview (5 p.m.-7 a.m.) |
| 32.3 | WYES-3 | V-Me |
WLAE has ceased analog operation and has completed its digital transition. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display WLAE's virtual channel as "32".
In 1978, a group of married couples, supported by the Catholic Church, formed the Willwoods Community. They joined forces with the Louisiana Educational Television Authority, which had been looking for a way to get its programming into the state's biggest market, to obtain the other noncommercial license for New Orleans. On December 14, 1981, under the banner of the Educational Broadcasting Foundation, the partnership 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 some programming from LPB (mostly news and public affairs). LPB joined in the effort to get WLAE on the air to give the state's biggest market a chance to see its locally-based programming. 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 three PBS members owned at least in part by a Catholic-related organization (WXEL-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida and KMBH in the Rio Grande Valley are the others), and one of at least four run by a religious organization in general (counting Provo, Utah's KBYU-TV).[2]
Following Hurricane Katrina, WLAE sustained damage to their transmitter and they remained off the air to terrestrial viewers until early 2007. During the time their transmitter was off the air, WLAE provided a direct feed to local cable systems and to DirecTV satellite customers in the New Orleans market. Their analog signal was restored in January 2007 and their digital signal debuted on the air (for the first time) in March 2007.
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