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List of Dune secondary characters

The following is a list of secondary fictional characters from the Dune franchise created by Frank Herbert.

Leto I Atreides

Leto I Atreides (/ˈleɪtoʊ əˈtreɪdiːz/) is the Duke of House Atreides, and father to Paul Atreides. He is introduced in the 1965 novel Dune, and is later the main character in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999–2001) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

Leto is portrayed by Jürgen Prochnow in David Lynch's 1984 film Dune, and by William Hurt in the 2000 Dune miniseries. Hurt was the first to be cast in the 2000 adaptation. A fan of the novel, he told The New York Times, "I was a science fiction junkie ... [Director John Harrison] captured Herbert's prophetic reflection of our own age, where nation-states are competing with the new global economy and its corporate elements."

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WAFF (TV)

WAFF is the NBC television network affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama. Owned by Raycom Media, the station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 48 (mapped as virtual channel 48.1 via PSIP) and serves the northern portion of Alabama and several counties in southern Tennessee. It is based from its studios on Memorial Parkway (U.S. Highway 431) in Huntsville, and its transmitter is located south of Monte Sano State Park.

History

The Decatur years (1954-69)

The station first began broadcasting from studios and transmitters in Decatur (30 miles / 50 km west of Huntsville) on July 4, 1954, as WMSL-TV, channel 23. It was owned by Frank Whisenant, a Decatur businessman who also owned WMSL radio (AM 1400, now WWTM). WMSL originally carried programming from all four networks of the time - NBC, CBS, ABC and the DuMont Network - but was a primary NBC affiliate. It lost the DuMont Network when that one began closing down in 1955; it lost ABC when WAAY-TV started in Huntsville in 1959 as an ABC affiliate; and, finally, lost CBS when WHNT-TV began transmitting as a CBS affiliate in 1963.