WAFB, the Glossary
WAFB (channel 9) is a television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, affiliated with CBS.[1]
Table of Contents
96 relations: Aflac, Alexandria, Louisiana, American Broadcasting Company, American Sign Language, Aspect ratio (image), Atlanta, Baton Rouge Zoo, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Bounce TV, Broadcasting & Cable, Buckskin Bill Black, CBS, Class A television service, CNN, COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana, Dabl, Deadline Hollywood, Des Moines, Iowa, Digital television transition in the United States, Display resolution, Donna Britt (news anchor), DuMont Television Network, East Baton Rouge Parish School System, Editorial, Elephant, Federal Communications Commission, Fox Sports, Free TV Networks, Gray Television, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, HLN (TV network), Houston, How to Marry a Millionaire, Ion Plus, Iowa, Isiah Carey, Jeopardy!, John O'Hurley, KALB-TV, KATC (TV), KCCI, KNOE-TV, KRIV (TV), KZUP-CD, Limited liability company, Live with Kelly and Mark, Louie Anderson, Louisiana State University, Marionette, Media market, ... Expand index (46 more) »
- 1953 establishments in Louisiana
Aflac
Aflac Incorporated (American Family Life Assurance Company) is an American insurance company and is the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the United States.
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Alexandria, Louisiana
Alexandria is the ninth-largest city in the state of Louisiana and is the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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American Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.
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Aspect ratio (image)
The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Baton Rouge Zoo
The Baton Rouge Zoo is located 15 minutes north of downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge (French: Baton Rouge or Bâton-Rouge,; Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Bounce TV
Bounce TV is an American digital broadcast television network owned by Scripps Networks, a subsidiary of E. W. Scripps Company.
Broadcasting & Cable
Broadcasting & Cable (B&C, or Broadcasting+Cable) is a monthly telecommunications industry trade magazine published by Future US.
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Buckskin Bill Black
William P. "Buckskin Bill" Black (1929January 10, 2018) was a Louisiana children's television personality and, later, school board member.
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
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Class A television service
The class A television service is a system for regulating some low-power television (LPTV) stations in the United States.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana
The first presumptive case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana was announced on March 9, 2020.
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Dabl
Dabl is an American digital multicast television network owned by the CBS Media Ventures subsidiary of Paramount Global and operated by Weigel Broadcasting.
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Deadline Hollywood
Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.
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Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa.
Digital television transition in the United States
The digital transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of terrestrial television programming.
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Display resolution
The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor, or other display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.
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Donna Britt (news anchor)
Donna Britt (July 10, 1958 – January 21, 2021) was a longtime television news anchor at WAFB in Baton Rouge.
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DuMont Television Network
The DuMont Television Network (also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont Television, simply DuMont/Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Dumont) was one of America's pioneer commercial television networks, rivaling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being first overall in the United States.
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East Baton Rouge Parish School System
The East Baton Rouge Parish School System, also known as East Baton Rouge Schools (EBR Schools) or the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, is a public school district headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.
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Editorial
An editorial, or leading article (UK) or leader (UK), is an article written by the senior editorial people or publisher of a newspaper, magazine, or any other written document, often unsigned.
Elephant
Elephants are the largest living land animals.
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.
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Fox Sports
Fox Sports is the brand name for a number of sports channels, broadcast divisions, programming, and other media around the world.
Free TV Networks
Free TV Networks is an American specialized digital multicasting and advertising-supported video on demand network media company owned as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Discovery, Lionsgate and Gray Television. WAFB and Free TV Networks are Gray Television.
Gray Television
Gray Television, Inc. is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta.
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Hattiesburg is the 5th most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, located primarily in Forrest County (where it is the county seat and most populous city) and extending west into Lamar County.
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HLN (TV network)
HLN is an American basic cable network.
Houston
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.
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How to Marry a Millionaire
How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 American screwball comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco and written and produced by Nunnally Johnson.
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Ion Plus
Ion Plus is an American broadcast television network and FAST television channel owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company.
Iowa
Iowa is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.
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Isiah Carey
Isiah Carey (born October 17, 1970) is an American television broadcast journalist and reporter who has worked for television and radio stations throughout the southeast portion of the United States.
Jeopardy!
Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin.
John O'Hurley
John George O'Hurley Jr. (born October 9, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, singer, author, game show host, and television personality.
KALB-TV
KALB-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with NBC, CBS and The CW Plus. WAFB and KALB-TV are CBS affiliates and Gray Television.
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KATC (TV)
KATC (channel 3) is a television station in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with ABC and The CW Plus. WAFB and KATC (TV) are Bounce TV affiliates.
KCCI
KCCI (channel 8) is a television station in Des Moines, Iowa, United States, affiliated with CBS. WAFB and KCCI are CBS affiliates.
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KNOE-TV
KNOE-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Monroe, Louisiana, United States, serving the Monroe, Louisiana–El Dorado, Arkansas market as an affiliate of CBS and ABC. WAFB and KNOE-TV are 1953 establishments in Louisiana, CBS affiliates, Gray Television and television channels and stations established in 1953.
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KRIV (TV)
KRIV (channel 26) is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, serving as the market's Fox network outlet.
KZUP-CD
KZUP-CD (channel 20) is a low-power, Class A independent television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.
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Limited liability company
A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company.
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Live with Kelly and Mark
Live with Kelly and Mark (or simply Live) is an American syndicated morning talk show hosted by married couple Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.
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Louie Anderson
Louis Perry Anderson (March 24, 1953 – January 21, 2022) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author and game show host.
Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is an American public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Marionette
A marionette (marionnette) is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations.
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media such as newspapers and internet content.
Monroe, Louisiana
Monroe is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and parish seat of Ouachita Parish.
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Multiplex (television)
A multiplex or mux, also known as a bouquet, is a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium, particularly terrestrial broadcasting.
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Mutual Broadcasting System
The Mutual Broadcasting System (commonly referred to simply as Mutual; sometimes referred to as MBS, Mutual Radio or the Mutual Radio Network) was an American commercial radio network in operation from 1934 to 1999.
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MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV (stylized as myNetworkTV; unofficially abbreviated MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV, and sometimes referred to as My Network) is an American commercial broadcast television syndication service and former television network owned by Fox Corporation, operated by its Fox Television Stations division, and distributed through the syndication structure of Fox First Run.
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
New Orleans Pelicans
The New Orleans Pelicans are an American professional basketball team based in New Orleans.
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Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers.
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NTA Film Network
The NTA Film Network was an early American television network founded by Ely Landau in 1956 that operated on a part-time basis, broadcasting films and several first-run television programs from major Hollywood studios.
Oxygen (TV channel)
Oxygen (branded on air as Oxygen True Crime) is an American television network owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division and business segment of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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Paramount Television Network
The Paramount Television Network, Inc.
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Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City.
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Raycom Media, Inc. was an American television broadcasting company based in Montgomery, Alabama. WAFB and Raycom Media are Gray Television.
Richard Karn
Richard Karn (born Richard Karn Wilson; February 17, 1956) is an American actor, author and former game show host.
Sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio or television stations operated by the same company, either by direct ownership or through a management agreement.
Steve Harvey
Broderick Stephen "Steve" Harvey Sr. Also aired August 16, 2015.
Television station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.
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The Advocate (Louisiana)
The Advocate is Louisiana's largest daily newspaper.
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The Box (American TV channel)
The Box, originally named the Video Jukebox Network, was an American broadcast, cable and satellite television channel that operated from 1985 to 2001.
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The Des Moines Register
The Des Moines Register is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
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The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to as The Oprah Show or simply Oprah, is an American daytime syndicated talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986, to May 25, 2011, from Chicago, Illinois.
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The People's Court
The People's Court is an American arbitration-based reality court show, featuring an arbitrator handling small claims disputes in a simulated courtroom set.
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The Price Is Right
The Price Is Right is an American television game show where contestants compete by guessing the prices of merchandise to win cash and prizes.
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The Sheriff of Cochise
The Sheriff of Cochise is an American police crime drama television series of 79 black-and-white episodes broadcast from 1956 to 1958.
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The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless (often abbreviated as Y&R) is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS.
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This Is Alice
This Is Alice is an American situation comedy starring nine-year-old Patty Ann Gerrity.
Tim Brando
Tim Brando (born February 27, 1956) is an American sportscaster with Fox Sports.
Time for Beany
Time for Beany is an American children's television series, with puppets for characters, which was broadcast locally in Los Angeles starting on February 28, 1949, and nationally (by kinescope) by the improvised Paramount Television Network from 1950 to 1955.
Ultra high frequency
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter).
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UPN
The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that operated from 1995 to 2006.
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Very high frequency
Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten meters to one meter.
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.
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WBRZ-TV
WBRZ-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with ABC.
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WBXH-CD
WBXH-CD (channel 39) is a low-power, Class A television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. WAFB and WBXH-CD are Gray Television.
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WDAM-TV
WDAM-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Laurel, Mississippi, United States, serving the Hattiesburg area as an affiliate of NBC and ABC. WAFB and WDAM-TV are Bounce TV affiliates and Gray Television.
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WDGL
WDGL (98.1 FM, "Eagle 98.1") is a commercial radio station licensed to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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WDSU
WDSU (channel 6) is a television station in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Hearst Television.
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Wheel of Fortune (American game show)
Wheel of Fortune (often known simply as Wheel) is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin.
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (American game show)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (often informally called Millionaire) is an American television game show based on the format of the same-titled British program created by David Briggs, Steven Knight and Mike Whitehill and developed in the United States by Michael Davies.
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WVLA-TV
WVLA-TV (channel 33) is a television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with NBC.
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WXOK
WXOK (1460 AM, "Heaven 95.7") is an urban gospel formatted radio station licensed to Port Allen, Louisiana (where the transmitter is located).
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Zachary, Louisiana
Zachary is a city in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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1080i
1080i (also known as BT.709) is a combination of frame resolution and scan type.
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16:9 aspect ratio
16:9 is a widescreen aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9 units.
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2023–24 New Orleans Pelicans season
The 2023–24 New Orleans Pelicans season was the 22nd season of the New Orleans Pelicans franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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480i
480i is the video mode used for standard-definition digital video in the Caribbean, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Myanmar, Western Sahara, and most of the Americas (with the exception of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay).
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See also
1953 establishments in Louisiana
- Cookie and his Cupcakes
- KBRH
- KFAZ (Louisiana)
- KNOE-TV
- KREH
- KTAG-TV
- KTIB
- KVPI (AM)
- Louisiana Tech vs. Louisiana–Monroe football rivalry
- St. Frances Cabrini Church (New Orleans)
- St. Gabriel Catholic Church (St. Gabriel, Louisiana)
- WAFB
- WKBU
- WVUE-DT
- West Monroe High School
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAFB
Also known as CBS 9 Baton Rouge, CBS Baton Rouge, WAFB Tower Baton Rouge, WAFB-TV.
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