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| Country | United States |
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| Broadcast area | New Orleans metropolitan area |
| Headquarters | New Orleans,Louisiana |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Tegna Media Cox Communications (both own 50%) |
| Sister channels | WWL-TV,WUPL |
| History | |
| Launched | October 20, 1989; 35 years ago (1989-10-20) |
NewsWatch on Channel 15 (popularly known asNewsWatch 15) is an American regionalcabletelevision channel servingNew Orleans,Louisiana. The channel is owned as ajoint venture betweenTegna and local cable providerCox Communications. NewsWatch 15's operations are based out of the studio facility shared by Tegna-ownedCBS affiliateWWL-TV (channel 4) andMyNetworkTV affiliateWUPL (channel 54), located on Rampart Street in the city's historicFrench Quarter district. The regionalcable news channel's branding is derived from its channel slot in the New Orleans area on Cox Communications channel 15.
NewsWatch on Channel 15 launched on October 20, 1989; it was formed via a partnership that was formed in 1988 between WWL-TV and Cox Cable (now Cox Communications), the latter of which serves as the major cable provider for areas ofGreater New Orleans located south ofLake Pontchartrain, to create a cable-only news channel. Among the first regional news channels of its kind in the United States, NewsWatch was created in response to the growing number of area residents whose busy schedules did not permit them to watch a newscast at traditional broadcast times. NewsWatch 15 is available to nearly 290,000 households with cable television service inOrleans,Jefferson,St. Tammany,St. Bernard Parish andSt. Charles Parishes.
NewsWatch 15 primarily airs a mix of simulcasts of WWL-TV's weekday morning, noon, weeknight and weekend evening newscasts (which have been branded asEyewitness News since 1968), as well as rolling rebroadcasts of those programs during timeslots normally slotted forsyndicated or CBS network programming on over-the-air channel 4 (for example, the station's 5:00 p.m. newscast is only rebroadcast at 5:30 p.m. due to the live simulcast of the succeeding 6:00 p.m. newscast; in stark contrast, the Saturday edition of WWL-TV's 10:00 p.m.Eyewitness News Nightwatch broadcast is replayed on NewsWatch 15 until as late as 11:05 p.m. Sunday evening as WWL does not carry a newscast until Sunday evenings, and during the NFL season, may only air the late newscast). The channel also carries coverage of breaking news events that do not necessarily warrant extended coverage on channel 4.
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