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The National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office New Orleans/Baton Rouge has its origins in a U.S. Army Signal Service office opened in Downtown New Orleans on October 4, 1870. [3] A hurricane forecast center operated in the New Orleans office from 1935 until 1966, when its responsibilities were transferred to the National Hurricane Center. [3]
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. His calm guidance during these storms made him legendary to people throughout southeast Louisiana.
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The station first signed on the air on September 7, 1957. Coincidentally, it was the fourth television station (and the third commercial station) to sign on in the New Orleans media market, behind WDSU-TV (channel 6), WJMR-TV (channel 61, now WVUE-DT on channel 8) and non-commercial WYES-TV (channel 8, now on channel 12)—all signing on in under a timeframe of nine years.
It was the first television station to sign on in the state of Louisiana, the first in the city of New Orleans, the first on the Gulf Coast, the first in the Deep South, [3] and the 49th in the nation. It was founded by New Orleans businessman Edgar B. Stern, Jr., owner of WDSU radio (1280 AM, now WODT; and 93.3 FM, now WQUE-FM).
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Alexandria: 5 35 KALB-TV: NBC: CBS on 5.2, CW+ on 5.3, Circle on 5.4, Grit on 5.5, Oxygen on 5.6 : 25 33 KLPA-TV: PBS: Satellite of WLPB-TV Ch. 27 Baton Rouge
Ricks began his career in air traffic control, before brief service the private sector.He then joined the National Weather Service in 1990, first in Jackson, Mississippi, before moving to Dodge City, Kansas in 1993, and the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center in Slidell, before joining the National Weather Service Forecast Office for the New Orleans/Baton Rouge area in 1994. [1]
AccuWeather, which for many years had distributed and continues to distribute its forecast content to participating broadcast television stations around the United States, launched its first 24-hour television venture in 2007, with the launch of The Local AccuWeather Channel, a network distributed via the digital subchannels of various commercial (and in one case, non-commercial) stations ...