Wyes-Tv Channel 12

WYES is our local PBD affiliate Growing up WYES was a source of constant education and entertainment. Before I was even in kindergarten I was speaking bits of Spanish thanks to Sesame Street and was well mannered thanks to Mr. Rogers.
Now that I’m an adult I love watching the specials about New Orleans culture. Not just that but there’s other PBS programming, like Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey, or Masterpiece. (Just between us, Masterpiece is my favorite)
Overall WYES is a great local station with some national programming to round things out. Support WYES and other local PBS affiliates. They’re worth it.

Ever wonder why we need public broadcasting? Look no further than New Orleans’ own WYES.
As a small child I learned valuable lessons watching the Sesame Street broadcast on channel 12. Back then there was no HD version. It was just a generic non remote controlled TV and my favorite characters. I even learned how to count to ten in Spanish. That knowledge has come in very handy throughout the years.
Now my own kids watch the informative children’s shows and Big Bird is still relevant.
As an adult I no longer care for the kid shows, but do regularly watch the specials on New Orleans, John Besh’s New Orleans, and Chef Paul Pruhdohmme’s cooking show.
In summary, I have learned a lot from channel 12 and I am forever grateful that it’s around.

I love our local PBS station.
Every once in a while I’ll be bored and flipping around on the tv and I’ll stumble upon a show about local New Orleans culture on PBS. They have all kinds of documentary style shows (most made in the 80s) about things like «Easter in New Orleans», «Food in New Orleans» and «The New Orleans that was» just to name a few. In fact, I think that I was watching one of these shows a few years back when I learned that Gold Brick Eggs are local (I’m a little dim, sometimes).
On Mardi Gras day I was watching a show about the history of New Orleans Mardi Gras and I was really enjoying it. Then sometime in the show they mentioned that it was originally airing in 1980! 33 years and it still held up and was fantastic! You can’t beat that.
Of course, WYES also brings you national programming like kids shows and your precious Downton Abbey and Nature.

I thought I was all burned out on parades and then I run across a 1980ish documentary on our local PBS station recounting that year’s carnival season and it was AWESOME. Bacchus still went into the Rivergate (RIP) and Krewe of Clones was still parading. Seriously WYES does some great local programming, including the bizarrety that is the Meeting of the Courts on Mardi Gras night. Ooh! And John Besh cooking on Justin Wilson’s old set. Love!
AND they bring me the national PBS shows like Antiques Roadshow, Nature, and Sesame Street… because sometimes you just want to hang out with Grover.

I grew up watching WYES and agree wholeheartly with Ryan. I love the programming. The New Orleans that was, the restaurant shows, Justin Wilson and some of the PBS music programs.
I actually loved the Tribute to Les Paul with Jeff Beck and Imelda May and other great performances from the likes of Eric Clapton, James Taylor, Roy Orbison and BB King!

Nothing beats the original programming they do. Anything with New Orleans as a topic, from old restaurants and old commercials to the History of Jazz and the celebrations of the Mardi Gras Indians is a hit. Plus the perfect way to wind down from a busy Carnival season is watch the Meeting of The Courts ending with the Captain of the Mistick Krewe literally and figuratively closing the curtain on carnival.