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The Advocate is Louisiana 's largest daily newspaper. Based in Baton Rouge, it serves the southern portion of the state. Separate editions for New Orleans, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, and for Acadiana, The Acadiana Advocate, are published. It also publishes gambit, about New Orleans food, culture, events, and news, and weekly ...
81,398 Sunday [1] ISSN. 1055-3053. Website. nola.com. The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ancestral publications of other names date back to January 25, 1837. The current publication is the result of the 2019 acquisition of The Times-Picayune (which was the result of the 1914 ...
1972 Baton Rouge shooting. On January 10, 1972, four men identified as members from the Nation of Islam (NOI) in Chicago held a public demonstration on North Boulevard near the Temple Theater in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They stood atop a Cadillac vehicle as they blocked the street.
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. WBRZ-TV is sister to Class A independent ...
Inaugural issue of The Louisianian from December 1870. This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Louisiana. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first African American newspaper in Louisiana was L'Union, a French-language newspaper launched in 1862. [1] [2] The first daily African American ...
Baton Rouge Broadcasting was owned by the Manship family, which also owned AM station WJBO and a local newspaper, The Morning Advocate. The new station grants originally allowed for commercial operation to begin on January 1, 1941.
Though the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate was normally content to just let the LHSAA teams determine the championships among themselves within the framework of the playoffs, shortly after the 1959 season they did issue a one-time postseason ranking of the top ten Class AAA teams to compare with the results of the Louisiana Prep Grid Standard ...
John Georges. John Georges (Greek: Υιάννης Γεωργής) (born October 16, 1960) is an American businessman from New Orleans, who owns Louisiana's two largest newspapers and online news sites. He formerly served on the Louisiana Board of Regents, the body which supervises higher education in his native state. In 2007, he ran for ...