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WNOL-TV, virtual channel 38 (UHF digital channel 15), is a CW-affiliated television station located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Media Company, as part of a duopoly with ABC affiliate WGNO (channel 26). The two stations share studio facilities located within The Galleria on Galleria Drive (just south of I-10) in Metarie; WNOL maintains transmitter facilities located on Paris Road/Highway 47 in Chalmette. On cable, WNOL is available on Cox Communications and AT&T U-verse channel 13 and in high definition on Cox Communications and AT&T U-verse digital channel 1013. ==History== The station first signed on the air on March 25, 1984. It was the second independent station to sign on in the New Orleans' market, after eventual sister station WGNO, which signed on the air in October 1967; the station maintained a general entertainment format, running a variety of cartoons, sitcoms, older movies, drama series and religious programs (many of which were formerly carried by WGNO). The station's original slogan "Don't Stay Home Without Us," was an homage to the popular American Express advertising campaign featuring Karl Malden. In 1985, the station was sold to the TVX Broadcast Group. WNOL, as with TVX's other television stations, became a charter affiliate of Fox when the network launched on October 6, 1986. Reportedly, WGNO passed on the Fox affiliation; after that occurred, TVX used WNOL as leverage to get Fox to sign a deal to affiliate with the majority of the company's independent stations. TVX acquired Taft Broadcasting's independent and Fox-affiliated stations in 1987. Subsequently, the following year, TVX began selling off many of its television stations; in 1989, TVX sold WNOL to Qwest Broadcasting, a company owned by minority investors led by musician Quincy Jones. In addition to Fox network programming, WNOL continued to offer cartoons, sitcoms, movies and drama series on its schedule into the 1990s. In March 1994, Fox entered into a partnership with minority-owned communications firm Savoy Pictures (which would serve as majority partner) to form SF Broadcasting.〔(Fox, Savoy buying stations together; network will have 58% interest in SF Broadcasting ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', March 21, 1994.〕 On August 25 of that year, SF Broadcasting announced that it would acquire three television stations from Burnham Broadcasting – among them, New Orleans's longtime ABC affiliate WVUE (channel 8) – adding those stations alongside a fourth Burnham station that SF had acquired two months earlier in a separate deal. As part of the deal, WVUE and the three other acquired stations (WLUK-TV in Green Bay, KHON-TV in Honolulu and WALA-TV in Mobile) would switch their respective network affiliations from ABC (on WVUE) and NBC (on the three other stations) to Fox beginning in the fall of 1995. The Fox affiliation moved to WVUE on January 1, 1996; unlike the "Big Three" affiliates that switched to Fox through a similar deal between the network and New World Communications, WVUE and the other former Burnham stations also carried the Fox Kids weekday and Saturday blocks. The switch spawned a three-way affiliation swap in the market as WNOL joined WB, a network that had been carried from the network's launch in January 1995 on WGNO (the result of that station's ownership by network part-owner Tribune Broadcasting) – which in turn picked up the ABC affiliation from WVUE. WNOL also acquired select cartoons and other syndicated programs that were previously part of WGNO's programming inventory. As the 1990s progressed, WNOL began to decrease its reliance on classic sitcoms, and gradually added more talk and reality series for the station's daytime schedule. WGNO's owner Tribune Broadcasting, which held a minority ownership interest in The WB, entered into a local marketing agreement to operate WNOL in 1996; Tribune purchased the station outright in 2000, following the company's merger with Qwest, creating the first television duopoly in the New Orleans market between WNOL and WGNO. Along with other similarly formatted stations, WNOL began to scale back on carrying cartoons (such as ''The Wacky World of Tex Avery'') beginning in 2000. Cartoons on the station were eventually relegated to weekends only, when The WB discontinued the Kids' WB weekday afternoon block in December 2005, leaving its existing Saturday morning block. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WNOL-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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