Newscasts
Since early 2005, WUPL has broadcast CBS's morning programs, The Early Show (until 2012), and currently CBS This Morning (which WWL-TV pre-empts in favor of its four-hour local newscast). WUPL also offered The Daily Buzz and both shows were run under the umbrella title My Morning News. Currently the station only carries CBS This Morning, with Better leading into it.
On June 4, 2007, WUPL began airing a half-hour 9 pm newscast called My54 Eyewitness News at 9 to compete against WVUE's Fox 8 News at 9 and WGNO's ABC 26 News at 9:00 on New Orleans' CW38. The newscast is produced by WWL-TV, and features the anchor lineup of Channel 4's 10 pm newscast Eyewitness News Nightwatch. Unlike the 9 pm newscast on WVUE, the WUPL newscast currently airs on weeknights only. WGNO cancelled the newscast it produced for WNOL after the June 4, 2010 edition due to dismal ratings; by that time, the newscast on WUPL had passed the WNOL newscast at a distant second behind WVUE.
As of September 2010, the 9 pm newscast is broadcast in 16:9 widescreen standard definition, the same format as the newscasts on sister station WWL-TV.
My54 Eyewitness News at 9
(weeknights 9-9:30 pm)
- Anchors: Karen Swensen and Dennis Woltering
- Weather: Carl Arredondo
- Sports: Jim Henderson
WUPL features additional news personnel from WWL-TV. See that article for a complete listing.
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