John Nastasi, former WBRZ engineer, has died

BATON ROUGE – The area has lost a television pioneer in the death of John Nastasi, Sr., a broadcast engineer who was instrumental in providing WBRZ's legacy signal to beam across South Louisiana.Nastasi, a Washington Parish native, retired from the television station in 2000 – 32 years after starting work for the Manship family in November 1968. Nastasi's retirement came at the advent of digital and high-definition television, but his career helped build the infrastructure o