WNOP

WNOP is a PBS] Station serving the New Orleans Market. Owned  and operated by the Greater New Orleans Educational Televison board of LouMiss ETV, WNOP has studios located at South Carrolton and St. Charles Avenues. The transmitter is located in Algiers Neighborhood with Southern Media Flagship WDSU-TV.

WNOP is the Flagship station of LouMiss ETV and is the oldest Non comercial Licenced station on the Gulf Coast.

History
After the FCC Report & order of 1952, New Orleans was licenced channels 2 (Later Moved to Baton Rouge) 4, 6, 8, 11, and 12, with channel 8 reserved for noncommercial use.

The Greater New Orleans Educational Televison board was founded in march of 1953 to provide Cultural, Inspirational, Educational and Informative programs to Southeast Louisiana and Coastal Mississippi. The group applied for Channel 8 for their ETV station in June of 1954, which was approved by the FCC in September.

WNOP-TV signed on on March 5th 1956 from the top of the Hibernia Bank Building in Downtown New Orleans at 3:00 PM. the first program that was aired was a film about New Orleans and The History of Educational Televison up to that point.

WNOP originally broadcasted on Monday thru Friday During the school year (August through May) from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM broadcasting School Programming. However, due to the short antenna and reduced power, only schools in New Orleans proper that had TV sets could watch these programs. In the evenings WNOP broadcasted from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM with Cultural and Informative Programming for all viewers. It was not until 1962 that WNOP got enough funds to air from 8 AM to 10 AM every day of the week excluding Sunday, when WNOP only aired from 3 to 7 in the afternoon, and with a gift from GE, a transmitter in Gentilly Woods.

On september 9th, 1965 WNOP  lost the Gentilly woods Transmitter due to Hurricane Betsy. As A result, WNOP began to broadcast one week later From the Algiers transmitter still used today. WNOP first aired Color Slides and Film in 1966, and had local live color in 1968. It was also in 1966 that WNOP and the greater New Orleans ETV board along with Louisiana State University (LSU) signed on WEBR in Baton Rouge, and would Sign on WCMP in 1968 along with the School boards of Gulfport and Biloxi,  then WNOP helped with the Mississippi State School Board/ETV commisson to sign on WEJM in december of 1969 and the board Joined with LSU and the Coastal Mississippi ETV board to become the LouMiss ETV network in 1971. The four Stations Joined PBS when it founded in 1970.

Unlike it's Sister stations in Mississippi, WNOP cleared all of NET/PBS programing that dealt with Integrated Cast members since its founding, despite threats from some of the Viewing area.

Since the 1980's WNOP has helped many kids in the school districts of Southeast louisiana with theri programming and school products.

Digital Televison
The WNOP programming is Multiplexed