Bob Carr, a New Orleans broadcasting icon who spent more than 65 years hosting and producing programs on local television and radio with his wife Jan, died Friday at Christwood Retirement Community in Covington. He was 98.
Carr was among the last members of a generation of broadcasters who made their mark during the earliest days of New Orleans television.
He and Jan came to the city in 1960, a little more than a decade after WDSU signed on the air as the city’s first TV station. As a married couple for 71 years and the parents of four children whom they frequently mentioned on air, they were called “the first family of New Orleans television.” They became household names throughout the 1960s and 70s for their appearances on WDSU, first on a morning show called “Second Cup,” then the station’s hugely popular “Midday” show…