Along with other similarly formatted stations, WNOL began to move away from cartoons, such as The Wacky World of Tex Avery in 2000.
Before then, WUPL was one of two network-owned stations in New Orleans at the time (then-WB affiliate WNOL-TV, owned by The WB's part-owner, the Tribune Company, was the other).
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On June 4, 2007, WWL-TV began producing airing a half-hour 9 p.m. newscast for WUPL called My54 Eyewitness News at 9 to compete against WVUE's longer established hour-long in-house newscast and a WGNO-produced half-hour 9 p.m. newscast on CW affiliate WNOL-TV.