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'''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. [https://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/vnr1]

The October 9, 2002, meeting minutes of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' Breaux Act Task Force list both WVUE and [[WBRZ-2, ABC (TV Station)|WBRZ]], an ABC station in Baton Rouge, as two TV stations that aired a state-funded VNR: [http://data.lacoast.gov/reports/tf/tf2002-10.pdf]
: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 <br>
1025 S. Jefferson Davis Parkway<br>
New Orleans, LA  70125<br>
Phone: 504-486-6161<br>
Fax:  504-483-1105<br>
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]]

== External links ==
*Diane Farsetta and Daniel Price, "[https://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/execsummary Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed:] A multimedia report on television newsrooms' use of material provided by PR firms on behalf of paying clients", Center for Media and Democracy, April 6, 2006.

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