WGNO, channel 26, is the ABC-affiliated television station for the greater New Orleans, Louisiana metropolitan area, as well parts of southern and coastal Mississippi. It is owned by Tribune Broadcasting, and is the only Big Three network affiliate owned by the company.

The station offers ABC programming, along with syndicated programming and about 25 hours a week of local newscasts. The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 26; its studios are located at the Galleria Center in Metairie, Louisiana and its transmitter is located east of downtown New Orleans off Paris Road. The station is seen via satellite through DirecTV and Dish Network, on Cox Communications channel 11 in standard definition and digital channel 1011 in high definition, and on AT&T U-verse.

The station's digital channel on UHF 26, is multiplexed:

WGNO had been sharing digital channel 15 with sister station WNOL. On June 12, 2009, WGNO flash-cut to digital broadcasting on channel 26 to complete the digital conversion. This allowed on WNOL to resume high definition broadcasting on UHF channel 15. ABC network programming airing on WGNO is broadcast in the network's recommended high definition picture format of 720p HD.

Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and businessman. He has won two Academy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards and has been nominated for three BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards. Costner's roles include Lt. John J. Dunbar in the film Dances with Wolves, Jim Garrison in JFK, Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams, Robin Hood in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Crash Davis in Bull Durham, Robert "Butch" Haynes in A Perfect World, Frank Farmer in The Bodyguard, Lt. Cmdr. Tom Farrell in No Way Out, and Eliot Ness in The Untouchables. Costner also founded the band Modern West, and has performed with the band since 2007.

Born in Lynwood, California, the youngest of three sons (the middle of whom died at birth). His mother, Sharon Rae (née Tedrick), was a welfare worker, and his father, William Costner, was an electrician and later utilities executive at Southern California Edison. Costner's patrilineal ancestry originates with German immigrants to North Carolina in the 1700s; he also has English and Irish ancestry, and has said that one of his ancestors had "married a Cherokee woman". Costner was raised Baptist. He attended Cabrillo Middle School and Villa Park High School. Costner was not academically inclined. Rather, he enjoyed sports, took piano lessons, wrote poetry and sang in the First Baptist Choir. He has stated that a viewing of the film How the West Was Won at the age of seven had "formed" his childhood.