WDSU’s 6 p.m. newscast boasted the most-watched local weekday news at the conclusion of the May sweeps period. Here’s the write-up from NOLA.com.
News teams assemble and compete to “Save the Coast”
December 4, 2014 by
A call was put out for for local media members to get together at the Pelicans facility on Airline Drive to compete for Coast-saving supremacy.
In the News: New Orleans’ May Ratings Results
May 27, 2013 by
The T-P’s Dave Walker takes a look at the recently completed May ratings period, during which all WDSU newscasts except one showed ratings gains year-to-year.
New Orleans Ratings Race: November
December 15, 2012 by
The T-P’s Dave Walker writes about the recently concluded November sweeps period and the continued audience decline for WWL in most time slots. Also, a look back at May’s results.
New Orleans Media: News and Notes
December 23, 2011 by
Catching up on a few things here before the end of the year… It’s been a tough 2011 at WGNO-TV. Management laid off a friend of mine, Jessica Holly, and several other staffers just in time for Christmas. Terrible. Also, longtime WWL-TV feature reporter Frank Davis is semi-retiring. I wish him the best. I’ve never […]
WDSU Morning News: Viewership Grows
December 27, 2010 by
Dave Walker penned a nice article about the WDSU morning news in Sunday’s Times-Picayune. He also wrote about the morning broadcasts on WWL, WGNO and WVUE. Below is an excerpt from the WDSU morning news write-up: As for WDSU’s August expansion to 4:30 a.m., more than a dozen Hearst stations have added a similar earlier-than-early […]
New Orleans Ratings Race
December 14, 2009 by
The Times-Picayune’s Dave Walker writes today about the recently-completed November ratings period. Here’s one paragraph of note: WDSU, otherwise saddled with NBC’s mostly lame prime-time, can claim success for its new 4 p.m. newscast, growing ratings a bit in the time slot from a 3.5 average for “Judge Judy” in November 2008 to a 3.6 […]
