History
The station, which is also a member of National Public Radio, is operated by the University of New Orleans and broadcasts at 89.9 MHz with an ERP of 85 kW. It signed on the air in 1972.
They also have a satellite sister station in Thibodaux, Louisiana, KTLN (90.5).
As Hurricane Katrina bore down on the city, the remaining staff shut down the station to evacuate on the morning of August 28, 2005. The station returned to the air just 24 days later, on September 21, with programing from the studio space of Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta, Georgia. Post-Katrina flooding had damaged the UNO campus.
While most of the staff was in Atlanta, WWNO Program Director Fred Kasten set up a temporary studio in his intact home in the Carrollton neighborhood of New Orleans, from which he gave daily updates of the situation in New Orleans until the station was able to return to its UNO studios on December 19.
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