Programs/Content
Independent Senate candidate sues Louisiana station over debate
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Troy Hebert wants to block the debate from airing Oct. 18 as scheduled.
Programs/Content
New content initiative in Louisiana helps children parlent français
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Some 4,500 students attend primary and secondary French-immersion programs at 30 schools statewide.
Programs/Content
New Orleans stations tell their Katrina stories
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Two stations give insight into how they dealt with the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
Archiving
Louisiana network launches online archive of historic video
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A new digital archive co-created by Louisiana Public Broadcasting contains more than 500 hours of streamable online video, including civil-rights era broadcasts, Louisiana-themed cooking shows and speeches by political leaders. The Louisiana Digital Media Archive went live Jan. 20 after more than five years of development, featuring videos from both public and commercial broadcasters. “One of our missions is to create TV worth watching,” said Beth Courtney, president of LPB and a 30-year veteran of the station. “If we’ve made 40 years of TV worth watching, it’s worth saving.”
LPB inventoried and digitized video artifacts from the civil-rights and World War II eras as part of an American Archives pilot project in 2009, a CPB-funded effort to create a national archive of public television content.
Programs/Content
Faith in the Big House documents role of evangelical ministry in prisons
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The Louisiana Public Broadcasting documentary focuses on five prisoners as their lives are changed by religious conversion.