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WDSU (channel 6) is a television station in New Orleans, ... WDSU became the first New Orleans station to operate its own Doppler weather radar system ...
With the 1941 enactment of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA), WDSU moved to 1280 kHz. In 1948, it put Louisiana's first television station on the air, WDSU-TV. A year later, it added an FM station, WDSU-FM (now 93.3 WQUE). The radio stations were sold in 1972, and the AM became WGSO with an adult contemporary format.
Volumetric Imaging and Processing of Integrated Radar, known by the acronym VIPIR, is an analysis and display program for Doppler weather radar, created and sold by Baron Services. [1] This software allows improved analysis of radar data for private users, in particular television stations, similar to the Weather Decision Support System program ...
Weather radar in Norman, Oklahoma with rainshaft Weather (WF44) radar dish University of Oklahoma OU-PRIME C-band, polarimetric, weather radar during construction. Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.).
WDSU 6 Secondary affiliation (WWOM-TV/WGNO was an independent station); cleared NBC programming not cleared by the network's existing affiliate WDSU-TV. Disaffiliated from NBC in the 1980s. New York, New York: WABD 5 (now WNYW) 1947, 1950 (secondary) Fox (O&O) WNBC 4 (O&O)
On October 1, 1951, he began broadcasting on WDSU-TV. Roberts was the first full-time weathercaster in the Deep South and one of the first to use radar on television weather broadcasts. Roberts continued as a local forecaster on New Orleans television and radio.
NEXRAD or Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the United States Department of Commerce, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) within the Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Air Force within the ...
The DOW program rapidly expanded and evolved to include the first mobile dual-Doppler weather radar network, the first mobile rapid-scan radar (the Rapid-Scan DOW, RSDOW), [1] and the first quickly-deployable 1-degree C-band radar, the C-band on Wheels (COW).