WWNO

WWNO/KTLN is a public radio outlet in New Orleans, Louisiana that offers Classical, Fine Arts, Jazz, as well as informative programming like "Car Talk", and the highly acclaimed radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" with Garrison Keillor. The station produces a locally oriented variety program, Crescent City, which features musical and comedic performances. The host of Crescent City was New Orleans commentator, journalist, and writer Ronnie Virgets.

History

The station, which is also a member of National Public Radio, is licensed to the University of New Orleans and broadcasts at 89.9 MHz with an ERP of 35,000 watts. It signed on the air in 1972.

WWNO has a repeater in Thibodaux, Louisiana, KTLN (90.5).

As Hurricane Katrina bore down on the city, the remaining staff shut down the station to evacuate on the morning of August 28, 2005. The station returned to the air just 24 days later, on September 21, with programing from the studio space of Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta, Georgia. Post-Katrina flooding had damaged the UNO campus.

While most of the staff was in Atlanta, WWNO Program Director Fred Kasten set up a temporary studio in his intact home in the Carrollton neighborhood of New Orleans, from which he gave daily updates of the situation in New Orleans until the station was able to return to its UNO studios on December 19.

External links

• WWNO Online
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WWNO
• Radio-Locator information on WWNO
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WWNO
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KTLN
• Radio-Locator information on KTLN
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KTLN

Coordinates: 29°55′12″N 90°01′30″W / 29.920°N 90.025°W / 29.920; -90.025