WWNO
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| City |
WWNO: New Orleans, Louisiana KTLN: Thibodaux, Louisiana |
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| Broadcast area |
WWNO: New Orleans metropolitan area KTLN: Houma/Thibodaux metropolitan area |
| Branding | 89.9 WWNO |
| Slogan | New Orleans Public Radio |
| Frequency |
WWNO: 89.9 MHz (also on HD Radio) KTLN: 90.5 MHz |
| Translator(s) | 104.9 K285FF (Metairie, relays WWNO-HD2) |
| First air date |
WWNO: 1972 KTLN: 1995 |
| Format | FM/HD1: Public radio HD2: Classical "Classical 104.9" HD3: Jazz |
| ERP |
WWNO: 35,000 watts KTLN: 200 watts |
| HAAT |
WWNO: 299.8 meters KTLN: 109 meters |
| Class |
WWNO: C1 KTLN: A |
| Facility ID |
WWNO: 38607 KTLN: 4219 |
| Callsign meaning |
(U)niversity of New Orleans (The second W substitutes for the U) Thibodaux, LouisiaNa (the station's city of license) |
| Affiliations | NPR |
| Owner | University of New Orleans |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wwno.org |
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.
WWNO, 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).WWNO is a typical public radio station rooted in cultural programming and serves as hybrid news and classics weekday station for the local audience. The station had a fairly standard variety package on the weekends and its Saturday mornings featured the stock line-up of NPR’s Weekend Edition; Car Talk; Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me; the Metropolitan Opera and beyond. WWNO is located on the 4th floor of the university’s library.
Prior to Hurricane Katrina making landfall in late August 2005, general manager Chuck Miller called extra staff in to the station to help, dropped the regular program format, played short burst music and shared as much information as possible about traffic, evacuation procedures, and anything else that would be helpful to the 86,000+ people that tuned in each week. The building had a back-up generator with buried transmission lines. The transmitter site had generator power. Staff prepared to sleep away from windows. Computers and other valuable items were brought into interior rooms.
On the evening before the storm made landfall, the University of New Orleans shut down the IT department without informing the station personnel. WWNO was left without Internet access. Station staff turned to the television and other local radio for sources of information. Without even two months in the city under his belt, Miller found himself hunkering down with staff in the station the Saturday before Katrina hit with sleeping bags and non-perishables to broadcast through the storm. Four WWNO staff made it to work during the early morning hours of Sunday, August 28, 2005, Miller, Fred Kasten, James Arey and Jack Hopke. Two people handled the phones and monitored TV and the other two served on-air. Katrina was then declared Category 5 and headed straight for New Orleans. Miller requested and received permission to evacuate the staff from the station. WWNO signed over its signal to a local TV station.
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