WVUE-8, FOX (TV Station)

WVUE-8 is a New Orleans, Louisiana television station and an affiliate of the FOX television network.

Station Owner
Emmis Communications

Use of Video News Releases and/or Satellite Media Tours
In the 6am news bulletin on June 13, 2005 the station broadcast an edited and re-voiced version of a video news release produced by MultiVu for the American Dental Association on saliva testing for diseases. The broadcast version was a FOX national edit. 

The October 9, 2002, meeting minutes of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' Breaux Act Task Force list both WVUE and WBRZ, an ABC station in Baton Rouge, as two TV stations that aired a state-funded VNR:
 * A video news release produced by Hometown Productions (one of the new initiatives funded in October by the Task Force) had a high rate of success. It was aired on ... New Orleans: ... WVUE; Baton Rouge: KBRZ ...

Contact Details
Fox 8 WVUE-TV 1025 S. Jefferson Davis Parkway New Orleans, LA 70125 Phone: 504-486-6161 Fax: 504-483-1105 Web: http://www.fox8live.com/Default.aspx

SourceWatch Resources

 * Audio news releases
 * B-Roll
 * Brand Hype
 * Branded Entertainment
 * Media releases
 * Satellite Media Tours
 * Radio Media Tours
 * Public Service Announcements
 * Video news releases: PR for California's Schwarzenegger administration