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The station first signed on the air on December 18, 1948.
While the 1948 program at the Municipal Auditorium marked the first citywide TV broadcast, it wasn’t WDSU’s first time on the air, technically speaking.
The transmitter site remained at the Hibernia Bank Building until 1955, when it moved to its tall tower in Chalmette.
WDSU-TV became the first television station in the New Orleans market to telecast its programming in color in 1955.
In January 1972, Royal Street merged with Columbia, South Carolina-based Cosmos Broadcasting in a $17 million deal.
On February 17, 1986, WDSU became the first NBC affiliate in Louisiana to broadcast its programs in stereo.
Cosmos sold WDSU to Pulitzer, Inc. for $47 million in 1989.
Under Pulitzer, channel 6 finally dropped the "-TV" suffix from its calls in 1993, more than 20 years after it and its former radio sisters had gone their separate ways.
The storm prompted a massive evacuation of much of the station's viewing area. As a result, on September 1, 2008, satellite provider DirecTV began simulcasting WDSU's coverage of Hurricane Gustav nationally on channel 361.
WDSU celebrated its 60th anniversary of broadcasting on December 18, 2008.
In 2015, the NBC Peacock logo was added to the "channel 6" red dot logo, due to the network's requirement that the NBC logo be included with any affiliate's logo.
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