
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
In the recently concluded November sweeps period, WDSU showed year-to-year growth in newscasts at 5 a.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. WDSU News at 4 registered a 4.6 rating, up more than a full point from last November. Here’s the full story from the T-P.
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 […]
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 […]