Following Hurricane Katrina, WLAE sustained damage to their transmitter and remained off the air to terrestrial viewers until early 2007.
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WLAE was one of at least two PBS members owned at least in part by a Catholic-related organization (KMBH in the Rio Grande Valley is the other), and one of at least three run by a religious organization in general (counting Provo, Utah's KBYU-TV).