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WBRZ-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with ABC.The station is owned by the Manship family, who formerly published the Baton Rouge daily newspaper, The Advocate, and is one of a handful of TV stations today to have locally based ownership.
Baton Rouge (/ ˌ b æ t ən ˈ r uː ʒ / ⓘ BAT-ən ROOZH; French: Bâton-Rouge, pronounced [bɑtɔ̃ ʁuʒ]; Louisiana Creole: Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It had a population of 227,470 at the 2020 census, making it Louisiana's second-most populous city. [4]
East Baton Rouge, Feliciana, Iberville, West Baton Rouge, Pointe Coupee, Saint Helena, Saint Tammany, and Washington parishes Anti-Jacksonian: March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1831 Philemon Thomas (Baton Rouge) Jacksonian: March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1835 22nd 23rd: Elected in 1830. Re-elected in 1832. Retired. 1833–1843 [data missing] Eleazer ...
Then known as the Baton Rouge standard metropolitan area (or Baton Rouge SMA), it consisted of a single parish–East Baton Rouge–and had a population of 158,236. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Following a term change by the Bureau of the Budget (present-day U.S. Office of Management and Budget ) in 1959, the Baton Rouge SMA became the Baton Rouge standard ...
Below is a list of Baton Rouge's chief executives—magistrates from 1818 to 1846, [28] [2] mayors from 1846 to 1949, and mayor-presidents from 1949 to present. The town magistrate was an appointive office, determined from within the elected five-member board of selectmen. [2]
KBTR-CD (channel 36), is a low-power, Class A independent television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It is owned by Louisiana Television Broadcasting alongside ABC affiliate WBRZ-TV (channel 2). The two stations share studios on Highland Road in Baton Rouge, where KBTR-CD's transmitter is also located.
The 2024 Baton Rouge mayoral election was held on November 5, 2024, with a runoff for December 7 to elect the mayor-president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.With no candidate receiving a majority of votes in the initial round of the election, a runoff election was held on December 7.
C-SPAN2 and ABC affiliate WBRZ (channel 2) in Baton Rouge also ran portions of the station's live news coverage of Gustav. WDSU tapped the resources of parent company Hearst-Argyle Television, and brought in personnel from Hearst-owned television stations across the country to assist in various capacities.