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re: What happened to WWL New Orleans

Posted on 2/12/24 at 10:39 am to
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
148031 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 10:39 am to
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Once Loyola sold them, they stopped being concerned about the community and thier employees and focused only on the bottom line. W W L = World Wide Loyola. They no longer project a proffessional image.


I think you’re getting WWL Radio and WWLTV confused.
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
148031 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 10:40 am to
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He got transferred to Virginia Beach/Dam Neck area and took Lucy with him.


That bastard. She was so damn fine!
Posted by White Roach
Member since Apr 2009
9628 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:02 am to
[quote]That bastard. She was so damn fine![/quote

Lucy had it going on. She seemed like a fun person.

However, her husband was a SEAL, so it's probably best to keep a respectful distance from her.
Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
8600 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:08 am to
quote:

Once Loyola sold them, they stopped being concerned about the community and thier employees and focused only on the bottom line. W W L = World Wide Loyola. They no longer project a proffessional image.


I think you’re getting WWL Radio and WWLTV confused.


WWL Radio and WWL TV were both owned by Loyola. WWL radio was sold to Keymarket Communications in 1989. WWL TV was sold to a Group of Employees at the station. Before being sold to Belo.
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
148031 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:09 am to
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Lucy had it going on. She seemed like a fun person.


No doubt

quote:

However, her husband was a SEAL, so it's probably best to keep a respectful distance from her.


Yeah I thought he was special forces, I wouldn’t want to be on his bad side


And Karen Swenson late husband was a NOPD if I recall.

She’s so sweet
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
148031 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:11 am to
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WWL Radio and WWL TV were both owned by Loyola. WWL radio was sold to Keymarket Communications in 1989. WWL TV was sold to a Group of Employees at the station. Before being sold to Belo.


Gotcha. I knew the radio station was owned by Loyola wasn’t sure about the TV Station
Posted by crash1211
Houma
Member since May 2008
3254 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:16 am to
Back in the days of David Tyree it was great. It really stated to fall off after that. It's so bad now I probably haven't listen to it in the last 5 or 6 years.

Sorry I was referring to 870am.
It's been longer since I've watched wwl TV for anything other than a game.
This post was edited on 2/12/24 at 11:18 am
Posted by SixthAndBarone
Member since Jan 2019
9021 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:18 am to
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It’s horrible now


Can you explain?
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
33342 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:27 am to
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What's something in NOLA that has gotten better with time?



Leaving it
Posted by cypresstiger
The South
Member since Aug 2008
11590 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:36 am to
WWL It’s hard to remember a time now when it wasn’t horrible
----Hap Glaudi, Tracy, Buddy D, Charlie Douglas, Dave Nemo...just for a start, were all great.
This post was edited on 2/12/24 at 11:37 am
Posted by Nado Jenkins83
Land of the Free
Member since Nov 2012
61202 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:37 am to
Scoot sucks.
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
28484 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:54 am to
DEI at work again.

I stopped watching WWL about 5 years ago…. WVUE now.
This post was edited on 2/12/24 at 11:59 am
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
28484 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:57 am to
quote:

Garland Robinette Angela Hill Lucy Bustamonte Sheba Turk Karen Swensen Sally-Ann Roberts Bill Elder Tamica Lee Laura Buchtel Jill Hezeau Carl Arredondo Dawn Brown*


You left out Andre Travine….
Posted by LSUFanHouston
NOLA
Member since Jul 2009
38097 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 12:02 pm to
quote:

the Jesuits sold out to Belo in the mid 90's and that's when things began to deteriorate. Growing up in NOLA in the 70's and 80's, WWL was the premier news station and it wasn't close.


This is exactly it. Once ownership was no longer local, and as Belo expanded, merged, etc, the C-Suites realized that NOLA was the 40th or so largest market, and started cutting costs at WWL. Older talent who wanted to stay in the market moved to Fox 8 or moved to other local things (like Mike Hoss did, forming his own company, and eventually becoming involved with the Saints).

Younger talent moved on to a bigger market and bigger payday.

Used to be that WWL could pay talent comparable to what a bigger market would pay, because the ratings were so dominant that ad revenue was bigger than what our market would expenct.

But cutting costs and bleeding the station dry has led to this.

WWL now is basically a few lifers who don't need the money, and a bunch of young talent, half of which sucks and leave the industry, and the other half of which move on to bigger markets.

WWL in the old says consistently outpucnhed their weight class. Now, it's just an average station in an average market.
This post was edited on 2/12/24 at 12:08 pm
Posted by LSUFanHouston
NOLA
Member since Jul 2009
38097 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 12:03 pm to
quote:

but he was always seemed to be the stiff "no humor" weathercaster. So he left or was shown the door. He eventually was picked up by WWL, and waited for his time to become chief meteorologist with the retirement of others.


He was shown the door.

He has improved his craft in many ways. He is 10,000x better now than he was on Fox 8
Posted by LSUFanHouston
NOLA
Member since Jul 2009
38097 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 12:05 pm to
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Hap used to spend more time talking about the results at the Fairgrounds and Jefferson Downs than he spent on many major sports.


In his day, horse racing and boxing were the two major local sports. The Saints stunk, and our college teams weren't much better. Even the local fanbases of Cubs and Braves, because of the superstations, really came at the end / after his time.
Posted by CP3forMVP
Member since Nov 2010
15124 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 12:11 pm to
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----Hap Glaudi, Tracy, Buddy D, Charlie Douglas, Dave Nemo...just for a start, were all great.


This post kind of just proves my point. "Hard to remember a time when they weren't horrible" meaning the years they were good are quickly fading. It's been a long long time.
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
28484 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 12:18 pm to
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She was so damn fine!


Back in the early 2000s, I met Lucy and Jill, who I both knew from mutual friends, at the Ernst Bacchus Bash, both were nice as can be…

Drunk me was in my glory…

And yes, Lucy was just as hot in person…

Note the Pot O Gold in the background, yes they were waiting in line at the time…

This post was edited on 2/12/24 at 12:20 pm
Posted by chryso
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
12346 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 12:20 pm to
I miss Hap's Point Afta.
Posted by Macintosh
Leveraging Salaries University
Member since Sep 2011
53217 posts
Posted on 2/12/24 at 12:23 pm to
They fell off hard in the last decade
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