WCCL

WCCL is a WB affiliate serving New Orleans, Louisiana and the New Orleans area. Broadcasting on channel 49, WCCL is owned and operated by Flinn Broadcasting. The station first signed on the air on March 19, 1989. It originally operated as an independent station with a general entertainment format. Due to financial issues, the station ceased operations in the spring of 1990. Flinn Broadcasting Corporation purchased the station's license three years later and returned channel 49 to the air on May 25, 1994, carrying programming from the Home Shopping Network. In 1995, there was a broadcast realignment and it affected New Orleans. WWOM was a WB affiliate until WFNO left ABC to become a FOX affiliate. When WWOM became an ABC affiliate, WCCL became an affiliate of The WB. In 2010 shortly after their sister stations in Memphis (WUPT & WRMX-LP) launched a prime-time newscast, WCCL launched their own prime-time newscast, calling it News 49.