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re: What happened to WWL New Orleans
Posted on 2/12/24 at 10:39 am to HotBoudin
Posted on 2/12/24 at 10:39 am to HotBoudin
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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.
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Posted on 2/12/24 at 10:40 am to White Roach
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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 on 2/12/24 at 11:02 am to tgrbaitn08
[quote]That bastard. She was so damn fine
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:08 am to tgrbaitn08
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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.
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 on 2/12/24 at 11:09 am to White Roach
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Lucy had it going on. She seemed like a fun person.
No doubt
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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 on 2/12/24 at 11:11 am to Tarps99
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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 on 2/12/24 at 11:16 am to DennisQuaid
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.
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 on 2/12/24 at 11:18 am to DennisQuaid
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It’s horrible now
Can you explain?
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:27 am to dallastiger55
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What's something in NOLA that has gotten better with time?
Leaving it
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:36 am to CP3forMVP
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.
----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 on 2/12/24 at 11:37 am to GumboPot
Scoot sucks.
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:54 am to DennisQuaid
DEI at work again.
I stopped watching WWL about 5 years ago…. WVUE now.
I stopped watching WWL about 5 years ago…. WVUE now.
This post was edited on 2/12/24 at 11:59 am
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:57 am to tgrbaitn08
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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 on 2/12/24 at 12:02 pm to Got Blaze
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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 on 2/12/24 at 12:03 pm to Tarps99
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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 on 2/12/24 at 12:05 pm to BobABooey
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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 on 2/12/24 at 12:11 pm to cypresstiger
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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 on 2/12/24 at 12:18 pm to tgrbaitn08
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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 on 2/12/24 at 12:20 pm to DennisQuaid
I miss Hap's Point Afta.
Posted on 2/12/24 at 12:23 pm to DennisQuaid
They fell off hard in the last decade
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