WHNO
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New Orleans, Louisiana United States |
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| Branding | WHNO-TV 20 |
| Channels |
Digital: 21 (UHF) Virtual: 20 () |
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| Owner |
LeSEA Broadcasting Corporation (LeSEA Broadcasting of New Orleans, Inc.) |
| First air date | October 20, 1994 |
| Call letters' meaning |
World Harvest New Orleans |
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| Transmitter power | 300 kW |
| Height | 254 m |
| Facility ID | 37106 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°55′13.1″N 90°1′28.6″W / 29.920306°N 90.024611°WCoordinates: 29°55′13.1″N 90°1′28.6″W / 29.920306°N 90.024611°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.whno.com |
WHNO, virtual channel 20 (UHF digital channel 21), is a LeSEA owned-and-operated television station located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The station is owned by the LeSEA Broadcasting Corporation. WHNO maintains studio facilities located on St. Charles Avenue in downtown New Orleans, and its transmitter is located off Behrman Highway in the city's Algiers neighborhood.
The UHF channel 20 allocation in the New Orleans market was originally occupied by WJMR-TV (now Fox affiliate WVUE), a primary CBS and secondary ABC affiliate which moved to that channel from UHF channel 61 on July 20, 1955. That station changed its channel allocation two more times – first to VHF channel 13 on January 13, 1959 (less than one month before it adopted the WVUE call letters) and then to channel 12 on September 6, 1962 (due to interference with Biloxi, Mississippi station WLOX on channel 13) – before settling on channel 8 on June 8, 1970.
The construction permit for UHF channel 20 that bore WHNO dates back to the 1970s. The permit changed hands many times over the years, even as the Federal Communications Commission had issued construction permits for channels 38 (used for WNOL-TV, now a CW affiliate) and 49 (used for WCCL, now Ion Television owned-and-operated station WPXL-TV) – both of which signed on within a few years of one another; the channel 20 allocation, however, remained vacant. In 1991, LeSEA Broadcasting purchased the construction permit with the intent to sign on a station in the market on channel 20.
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