WGNO
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New Orleans, Louisiana United States |
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| Branding | WGNO New Orleans (general) News with a Twist, WGNO News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | God Bless Louisiana |
| Channels |
Digital: 26 (UHF) Virtual: 26 () |
| Affiliations |
.1: ABC .2: Antenna TV .3: Escape |
| Owner |
Tribune Broadcasting (Tribune Television New Orleans, Inc.) |
| First air date | October 16, 1967 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Greater New Orleans -or- We've Got New Orleans (former slogan, retained as a homage to Tribune's Chicago flagship station WGN-TV, and a portmanteau of "WGN" and "NO" abbreviation for New Orleans) |
| Sister station(s) | WNOL-TV |
| Former callsigns | WWOM-TV (1967–1971) |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 286 m |
| Facility ID | 72119 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°56′59.0″N 89°57′28.0″W / 29.949722°N 89.957778°WCoordinates: 29°56′59.0″N 89°57′28.0″W / 29.949722°N 89.957778°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | wgno |
WGNO, virtual and UHF channel 26, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Media Company, as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate WNOL-TV (channel 38). The two stations share studio facilities located at The Galleria on Galleria Drive (just south of I-10) in Metarie; WGNO maintains transmitter facilities located on Paris Road/Highway 47 in Chalmette. On cable, the station is available on Cox Communications and AT&T U-verse channel 11, and in high definition on Cox Communications and AT&T U-verse channel 1011.
The station first signed on the air on Monday, October 16, 1967, as WWOM-TV (standing for "The Wonderful World Of Movies"); the station signed on at 5PM with a greeting by then-Mayor Victor H. Schiro, and its first program was the 1927 Al Jolson film The Jazz Singer. It was the first independent station in the state of Louisiana and the first commercial television station to sign on in New Orleans since WWL-TV (channel 4) debuted as the market's CBS affiliate on September 7, 1957. Originally owned by David Wagenvoord, the station was only on the air for eight hours a day from late afternoon to midnight; its programming consisted mostly of older movies, some theatrical cartoon shorts and a few off-network syndicated programs. During its first decade on the air, the station also cherry-picked several programs from NBC, ABC and CBS that WDSU (channel 6), WVUE-TV (then on channel 12, now on channel 8) and WWL-TV chose not to broadcast. In 1969, the station experimented with a 24-hour daily schedule, claiming to be the first television station in the United States to broadcast on such a schedule; however, this format was short-lived.
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