View Post Anchors | CBS Affiliates | Revolving Door New Orleans Anchor to Launch News Outlet By Kevin Eck on Jan. 3, 2017 - 10:29 AM Hoss started at WWL as a sports reporter in 1989.
CBS Affiliates | Mornings | NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk Melanie Hebert Makes Her WWL Debut By Merrill Knox on Jul. 2, 2012 - 11:39 AM Melanie Hebert made her debut anchoring WWL‘s early-morning newscast today, ten months after the announcement of her hire at the New Orleans CBS-affiliate. Hebert was sitting out a non-compete clause in her contract with NBC ...
Mornings | ShopTalk WWL to Launch 4:30 a.m. Newscast Next Week By Merrill Knox on Mar. 30, 2012 - 11:40 AM Beginning Monday, the morning newscast on New Orleans CBS-affiliate WWL will begin at 4:30 a.m. “We know there is an audience that wants information earlier in the morning, and we felt this was the right time to start servin ...
On the Move On the Move, 9/19/11 By Merrill Knox on Sep. 19, 2011 - 3:28 PM Marine Glisovic joins WICD in Champaign, IL as a reporter. She previously worked at WEIU in Charleston, IL. WPDE anchor and reporter Mola Lenghi moves from Myrtle Beach to Dallas as he accepts a reporting job at KXAS. Mike Gismond ...
CBS Affiliates | Mornings | ShopTalk WDSU’s Melanie Hebert Will Join Rival Station WWL Next Year By Merrill Knox on Sep. 12, 2011 - 3:05 PM Melanie Hebert, who left New Orleans NBC affiliate WDSU in June, will join rival station WWL — the market’s CBS affiliate — when her non-compete clause expires in 2012. Beginning in July of next year, Hebert will ...
ShopTalk | TV Biz May Sweeps Scoreboard: New Orleans By Andrew Gauthier on Jun. 6, 2011 - 9:20 AM “Certainly during May, we were driven in large part by the rising Mississippi river waters and flooding in the area,” said WWL anchor Mike Hoss, describing the latest sweeps period for the New Orleans market. Here’s how ...
CBS Affiliates | News Directors | ShopTalk WWL Ends News Director Search, Appoints Bill Siegel By Andrew Gauthier on Feb. 7, 2011 - 3:05 PM New Orleans’s WWL has picked a replacement at news director for Chris Slaughter, who was let go last year after 30 years with the CBS-affiliate. Bill Siegel, who is currently the assistant news director at Milwaukee’s ...
CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk WWL Reporter Susan Edwards Loses Year-Long Battle with Cancer By Andrew Gauthier on Dec. 29, 2010 - 12:19 PM Susan Edwards, an accomplished reporter with New Orleans’ WWL, passed away early Wednesday morning after a year-long battle with cancer. She was 34. Edwards was initially diagnosed with liver cancer in 2009 but the cancer ...
CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk After Four Years Away, Anchor Karen Swensen Returns to New Orleans’ WWL By Andrew Gauthier on Dec. 21, 2010 - 7:19 PM Karen Swensen, who has been working as a morning anchor for Comcast’s NECN since 2006, is set to return to New Orleans’ WWL, where she spent 12 years as an anchor and reporter. “We pride ourselves on being a fami ...