Four

On the fourth day, I said OK, let's get a Christmas tree...

three french breads

Tujague's recipe

for the crawfish they caught in Arabi.

WWL-TV, Channel 4 on broadcast, Channel 3 on the local cable (Cox), isn't the oldest TV station in town; that distinction goes to WDSU-TV, but WWL was the station that "discovered" Benny Grunch. Back when Benny first did the "12 Yats" song, Channel 4 did a video of Benny and the Bunch, and several times the "fourth day" came by, you'd see shots of the WWL logo.

This particular version comes from the 1950s. WWL was owned by Loyola University at the time. Kind of an interesting notion, a part of the Catholic church owning the local CBS affiliate (assuming you consider the Society of Jesus part of the Catholic Church, of course--that's a debatable issue in New Orleans). While the other stations in town had signature programming and such, WWL was Da News. We're talking Walter Cronkite here. I grew up on Da News--my parents didn't want to watch Huntly and Brinkley, even though I always wanted to see the "editorial cartoon" by John Churchill Chase on WDSU (Channel 6).

Cable has changed the way we watch the news in so many ways, but WWL-TV keeps up. They re-broadcast Da News on Cox Channel 15, repeating whatever the latest newscast was, then going live when the next one comes on, so you can always keep up with local news.

The Jesuits sold WWL to an employee-owned corporation in the 1980s, which in turn sold it to Belo, the current owners.