WAFB wins 5 Regional Edward R. Murrow awards. (Source: RTDNA) By WAFB Staff | May 6, 2021 at 10:19 AM CDT - Updated May 6 at 11:31 AM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) has awarded WAFB with five prestigious Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, including in the category of Best Newscast.
The awards for RTDNA Region 9, comprised of television stations in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas, were announced Thursday morning.
The regional winners now go on to compete for the coveted National Edward R. Murrow awards. Last year, WAFB won a National Edward R. Murrow for Best Newscast.
In the 2021 Regional Awards,
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Q: I wonder if you would be able to explain why Chris Meloni left âLaw & Order: SVUâ many years ago. I love that show and am happy that he is back in âLaw & Order: Organized Crime.â
Answer: Fans were astonished when Meloni, who had played detective Elliot Stabler, left the long-running drama a decade ago. Different theories have been offered for his departure, including that money issues during contract negotiations played a role.
Meloni, meanwhile, told the New York Post in 2020 that his departure âhad nothing to do with the âLaw & Orderâ people, the âSVUâ people or with Dick Wolf,â referring to the maestro of âLaw & Orderâ shows. âI left with zero animosity, but I did leave clearly and open-eyed in going forward and finding new adventures,â Meloni added. âI was like, âThatâs what I want to do, keep moving forward.â I had done the âLaw & Orderâ
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Tribune News Service
Q: I wonder if you would be able to explain why Chris Meloni left âLaw & Order: SVUâ many years ago. I love that show and am happy that he is back in âLaw & Order: Organized Crime.â
A: Fans were astonished when Meloni, who had played detective Elliot Stabler, left the long-running drama a decade ago. Different theories have been offered for his departure, including that money issues during contract negotiations played a role.
Meloni, meanwhile, told the New York Post in 2020 that his departure âhad nothing to do with the âLaw & Orderâ people, the âSVUâ people or with Dick Wolf,â referring to the maestro of âLaw & Orderâ shows. âI left with zero animosity, but I did leave clearly and open-eyed in going forward and finding new adventures, Meloni added. I was like, âThatâs what I want to do, keep moving forward.â I had done the âLaw & Orderâ wa
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From our neighboring state of Louisiana, Matt Houston will be headed to Texas to work at KENS 5 and tell the stories of San Antonio.
Houston is joining the CBS affiliate from WAFB in Baton Rouge where he was promoted to weekend anchor at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. But that wasn t his only accomplishment. Houston was also the youngest serving member of the station s editorial board.
Geoffrey Scott
He worked on several other soap operas and was a familiar face in commercials for Marlboro, Old Spice and Camel cigarettes.
Geoffrey Scott, who portrayed tennis pro Mark Jennings, the first husband of Linda Evans Krystle Carrington, on the 1980s ABC primetime soap
Dynasty, has died. He was 79.
Scott died of Parkinson s disease on Feb. 23 just after midnight on the day after his birthday in Broomfield, Colorado, his wife, Cheri Catherine Scott, told
The Hollywood Reporter.
The handsome Scott also played a U.S. marshal fighting aliens in 1880s Wyoming on The Secret Empire portion of 1979 NBC series