Who owns wgno

Retrieved May 9, Retrieved 1 July Chicago Tribune. Retrieved December 27, The Times-Picayune. Retrieved December 13, Broadcast television in the New Orleans region, including Hammond and Slidell.

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television. WWL 4. LPB , KHMA 11 independent, Houma. Tribune Media. Tales from the Darkside Tribune Studios U. Farm Report Underground What a Country! Middletons Pink Panther Pluggers. Screener TV by the Numbers. October 16, The station expanded its programming schedule to about 12 hours each day by , then began signing on at a.

The station was sold to Seymour Smith and his family in , continuing to program a general entertainment format with vintage sitcoms, older movies and religious programs.

From to , WGNO aired a series of public service announcements featuring a character called "Tom Foote"; Tom was a local entertainer seen in area schools and in the French Quarter. For a time, the station produced an hour-long program called Tom Foote's Video Clubhouse , as well as News for Kids , produced by Foote.

WGNO reportedly turned down an offer by Fox to become a charter affiliate of the network, prior to its October launch; Fox programming instead went to WNOL, which its then-owners TVX Broadcast Group used as leverage to get Fox to sign a deal to affiliate with the majority of the company's independent stations. The station dropped the "-TV" suffix from the callsign on August 17, On November 2, , the Warner Bros. As a result, Tribune affiliated the majority of its independent stations with the network as charter affiliates.

At that time, The WB only offered a few hours of programming each week airing only for two hours on Wednesday nights at the time of its launch, before adding a three-hour Sunday evening lineup, and a Monday-Saturday children's program block in September ; as a result, WGNO continued to run syndicated programming for the remainder of the broadcast day. Central Time. Had the deal received regulatory approval by the FCC and the U.

On August 9, , Tribune announced it would terminate the Sinclair deal, and concurrently filed a breach of contract lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court, alleging that Sinclair engaged in protracted negotiations with the FCC and the DOJ over regulatory issues, refused to sell stations in markets where it already had properties, and proposed divestitures to parties with ties to Sinclair executive chair David D.

Smith that were rejected or highly subject to rejection to maintain control over stations it was required to sell.

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