ShopTalk Veteran Member of WWL Production Team Dies at 61 By Merrill Knox on Nov. 7, 2011 - 11:30 AM Alvin Gauthier Jr., a 39-year veteran of the production department at New Orleans CBS-affiliate WWL, died on Wednesday of natural causes. He was 61. Gauthier worked at WWL from 1971-2009. Before he retired, he was the floor direct ...