Southern New England Association of Black Journalists is a sounding board and support group for local minority journalists representing print, broadcast, online and student journalists in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Its been a good fit and a fun run. I will continue to champion your causes. Prior to coming to Providence, Curtis covered the 2008 and 2012 Presidential campaigns for several media outlets. It is the rise of the Phoenixin Providence. LIN operated a shared Bell 206L3 Long Ranger helicopter with the registration N812TV branded as "News Chopper 12" until December 2008, which was shared with Connecticut sister station WTNH and had that station's imaging on the right, with WPRI's imaging on its left side. Top WPRI.com Reporters Headlines Rhode Island Foundation awards $75K in grants to local Honoring Black History / 2 years ago Bond referendum in RI special election would invest in Politics. WPRI swapped affiliations with WTEV and became an ABC affiliate on June 27, 1977, after this sale as a result of a corporate affiliation deal between ABC and Knight Ridder (WTEN, then a CBS station, would switch to ABC several months later in October; WPRI's former owners, Capital Cities Communications, would later buy ABC in 1985). She previously served at WGGB-TV ABC 40 in Springfield, Massachusetts as the Main evening Anchor and Reporter. The story contains allegations that two Cianci volunteers attempted to intimidate a resident of the homeless shelter into voting for the two time former mayor. Haines is survived by his wife, Cindy, his son, Matt, anddaughter, Meredith. A picture of Monday's picket line, which prominently featured Providence Journal Sports Columnist Billy Reynolds, was posted by former Providence Journal photographer Connie Grosch. The 57-year-old Baron was from Brooklyn, New York. On March 21, 2014, LIN Media entered into an agreement to merge with Media General in a $1.6 billion deal. He was apprehended and later pled guilty to making bomb threats. While the decline of newspapers is getting a lot of attention, the emerging story is the challenges local TV news is facing. Here is a complete directory of nearly every available News Anchors in your town. On October 22, 2010, WPRI began carrying TheCoolTV music video programming on its 12.2 subchannel; it was replaced by Bounce TV in July 2013. "After two incredible years in RI, I'm on the. In 1989, Knight Ridder left the broadcasting business, selling WPRI and WTKR in Norfolk, Virginia, to Narragansett Television LP, a locally based firm. She is the mother of two elementary school-aged children. Updated: Mar 1, 2023 / 03:17 PM EST. The 1 million-square-foot property at 529 Main St. is owned and in the process of being renovated by The Flatley Co. Sunrise Television acquired WPRI in early 2001 for $50 million. L-R WPRI's Danielle North, WJAR's Katie Davis, WPRI's Michaela Johnson, and ABC6's Chelsea Priest Top-level local television news staff have been quitting at a high rate in the past few months. The battle between Channel 10 and Channel 12 was a beat down. The story about an alleged rape at a fraternity at the University of Virginia is a travesty in far too many ways. Rhode Island's favorite TV anchor, Brian Yocono, is leaving WPRI-TV in September 2022. Narragansett Television sold WPRI to CBS in early 1995, making it a network owned-and-operated station (and one of the last such acquisitions prior to the Westinghouse Electric Corporation's purchase of the network). GoLocal24 - the parent company to GoLocalProv -- is sending off, and wishing well, COO Rick Daniels as he will soon be assuming the role of Publisher and President of the Hartford Courant - a Tribune Company. Former Journal, WPRI reporter thriving in Seattle Deborah Horne began her career in Providence, and fondly remembers the food Christine Dunn cdunn@providencejournal.com View Comments 0:03 0:49. Now they're curious to know if the anchor's new position will require him to relocate from Rhode Island. Listen: Mega TV Merger Will Have Big Impact on WJAR-10 and WPRI-12, Mega TV Merger Will Have Big Impact on WJAR-10 and WPRI-12, Susan Hogan Leaving WPRI, Black Journalists at Brown, New Biz Pub Coming, Margie OBrien Takes State House Slot, Chantee Lans Leaves WPRI for Boston, RIs Media Getting More Corporate - WPRIs Parent Buying CW28 & WJARs Parent Rivals Fox, NEW: WPRI Called Wrong Winner in Cumberland Democratic Mayoral Primary, WPRIs Parent Co. Buying Tribune, Projos Parent Co. Stock Plummets Along With Circulation, WPRIS Parent Co. Nexstar Pumps Hundreds of Thousands into GOP Coffers, Ch-12 Exec is PAC Donor, WPRO and WPRIs Dr. Tad Forced to Surrender Medical License by RI Dept. Strong Revenue Year in 2022 Due to Politics, Revenue Projected to Plummet in 2023. And some radio news reporters headed into the field with photographers to cover stories simultaneously for radio and TV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which provides certain services to dual Fox/CWaffiliate WNAC-TV(channel 64) under a local marketing agreement(LMA) with Mission Broadcasting. The event will be held this Saturday, December 5, 4p.m. She remains there still, working at KIRO 7, a CBS affiliate, as a general assignment reporter with a focus onjobs and the economy. Yesterday, however, Golocalprov.com broke the story about a Jorge Elorza supporter, State Representative Scott Slater, who was allegedly caught on video carrying an unfilled out absentee ballot. The MyFox sites themselves were eventually redesigned to a look similar to those of the LIN TV sites. READ MORE, GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST, Exclusive: Dan Doyle Threatens to Sue WPRI 12 for Libel, WJAR 10 Crushes WPRI 12, Rolling Stone Fallout, and Projo Moving - Moore News, WPRI Reporter Calls Out Providence Journal for Plagiarism - 2nd Time in 10 Days, NBC 10 Claims Big Ratings Victory Over WPRI 12, Dan Doyle Sues WPRI, Former 12 Sportscaster Calls Stations Actions Unethical, Top Democratic Leaders Have Paid WPRI Pollster More than $153,000, NEW: Karen Rezendes Named News Director at WPRI. View Larger + Providencewas a change for Horne, a native of Newport News, Virginia, and a graduate of Hampton University, a private, historically black university in Hampton, Virginia. WPRO Radios midday host Dan Yorke and late-morning host John DePetro have made Talker Magazines 2015 Heavy Hundred list of radio personalities in the United States. Taibbi's piece put Raimondo's Hedge Fund investment in the national spotlight. Both stations share studios on Catamore Boulevard in East Providence, Rhode Island, while WPRI-TV's transmitter is located on Pine Street in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. On October 2, 2017, the Bounce TV subchannel was moved to channel 12.3, replacing GetTV, which moved to a newly created 12.4 subchannel. After two incredible years in RI, Im on the move. This newscast now airs between 7:00a.m. and 9:00a.m.[14]. [5][6] The merger was completed on December 19, 2014.[7]. Earlier this year, the Globe announced they would sell their massive building and land valued around $40M. After graduating from the University of Maryland in 2007, Yianni Kourakis worked in Maryland- and Virginia-based markets before coming to Providence, Rhode Island in 2013. All of WPRI and WNAC's weekday newscasts are streamed live on WPRI's website and mobile app. Horne said that whileshe occasionally faced racism in her professional encounters as a woman of color, it never fazed her and it never took her by surprise. Daves new book, Stars and Lights, features more than 130 different lighthouses captured under the stars at night. In July, I will be joining the team at 7News - WHDH Boston! According to The Huffington Post, documents recently obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation showed that the FBI, in 2007, created a fake news story, on a fake web page, but in the style of the Seattle Times and with an Associated Press Byline. WPRI-TV(channel 12) is a television stationin Providence, Rhode Island, United States, affiliated with CBSand MyNetworkTV. Olsen was hired by McDonalds in May after he job-hunted for six months and applied at dozens of places. The Boston publication will be calledCrain's Boston. Cherry & Webb sold WPRO-AM-FM-TV to Albany, New York-based Capital Cities Television Corporation, the predecessor of Capital Cities Communications, in 1959, earning a handsome return on its purchase of WPRO radio in 1931. According to sources in the Salty Brine broadcast center in East Providence, the dismissal of Haynes may be tied to a series of ongoing personnel issues or could be tied to the parent companys weak financial performance. "She's Yale, Harvard, Oxford she worked on Wall Street," says Paul Doughty, the current president of the Providence firefighters union. During her senior year, Caroline traveled to Havana, Cuba during Spring break with her international reporting class. In return, WPRI does the same for its coverage of the same area. WPRI reporter Tim White noted that while Fung recently announced initiatives to strengthen policing nationwide, the Rhode Island State Police had to come in to fix problems in the Cranston. Their front page was an ad - a big color ad. Or its story showing that an impossibly high percentage of Providence public officials are awarded special disability pensions. That day, MyRITV was moved to WPRI-DT2 (so that WLWC's programming could, in turn, be moved to WNAC-DT2), to balance bandwidth among all four of Nexstar's major network affiliations in Providence. Westinghouse already owned WBZ-TV in Boston; that station provided city-grade coverage to Providence itself, as well as New Bedford and Fall River, Massachusetts, and at least grade B coverage to the rest of Rhode Island, while WPRI's city-grade signal, like most of the other major Rhode Island stations, decently covers most of the Boston area. WJAR was the first in Rhode Island to have made the upgrade, on May 16, 2011, followed by WLNE on September 13, 2011. The reporter now works both weekend days to augment his salary as a reporter. My race was not a factor," she said. She was the remaining member of the I-Team, the storied team once led by Dyana Koelsch and the late Jim Taricani. On Monday,630WPRO wrongly stated that The Providence Journal broke the story. Hell remain squarely in the spotlight and not for good in 2019, when he has pledged to release a list of names of abusive priests credibly accused over the years in the Diocese, as pressure mounts nationally for how sexual abuse claims were handled around the country READ MORE. Media Buzz: Cumulus Shake-Up Begins, New Sunrise Show Shines, Wheres The New ProJo. On Monday, Sabina Matos won back the Presidency of the Providence City Council and returns to the top legislative position in the City of Providence. But 2023 is expected to be a year of dramatic belt-tightening, staff reductions, and lower revenue. The weather channel was eliminated in 2010. We exist for you. lawmakers want public vetting of next teachers, Dave Grohl cooks barbecue for hundreds at shelter, DMV closes early due to statewide system outage, 10 vehicles involved in 2 North Kingstown crashes, TikTok sets new default time limits for minors, Evening Sprinkle/Flurry; Light Rain Overnight Into, Passenger reacts to close call at Logan Airport, What time is it on moon? Bova, an engineer who grew up in Middletown, attended URI, and moved to Newport in 2012, succeeds Harry Winthrop as the city faces major changes ahead for 2019, including the construction of a new hotel on Thames Street and more hotel proposals in the pipeline and READ MORE. The legal disputes in Rehoboth were finally settled in late 1954, and WPRO got the go-ahead to begin construction there. WPRI is also one of the only remaining TV stations in America to sign-off and sign-on once a week to this day. What does she remember most fondly about Providence? As of early 2014, NPR had three reporters and an editor on the environment beat. She spent her time there working on a story about the secret religion of Santeria. Any hopes of collaboration and a good working relationship between the Providence Journal's new owner and its employees' union appear to be fading away. GateHouse Media purchased The Providence Journal from the A.H. Belo Corp in 2014, and made several rounds of layoffs, starting with 22 people in September 2014including longtime columnist Bob Kerr. He gained a reputation for wit and a penetratinginterview style. When Sunrise bought WPRI from Clear Channel in early 2001, WNAC was sold to LIN TV due to FCC regulations forbidding common ownership of two of the four highest-rated stations in the same market. However, that was dropped in September when the WJAR LMA with WLWC ended. Impacto Hispano said that Elorza agreed to appear before the panel twice, but both times decided to back out of the appearance. View Larger + . Robert Healey, the Moderate Party's quixotic candidate for Governor called out Channel 6 yesterday (October 28, 2014) for changing the rules of the debate after they had already been agreed upon. READ MORE. With that being said, I'm excited to announce my next move isn't too far from here. Horne said she hasnever married, and currently lives in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square neighborhood. I am so grateful for every person who has trusted me to share their story. Dinge - Inside Art with Michael RoseArtist to Know: S.W., Real Estate Giant Compass Reports Net Loss of $602M Loss Now More Than a Billion in Past 2 YearsReal Estate Giant Compass, McKees Makes Big Claims on RI BioScience, But Reality Is Little DifferenceMcKees Makes Big Claims, Dominion Suit Hammers Fox News Credibility - HorowitzDominion Suit Hammers Fox, RIC Mens Basketball Coach Steps Down, Team Was 8-16 This YearRIC Mens Basketball Coach, Up to 7 Inches of Snow Possible in RI Monday Night Into Tuesday - Winter Storm Warning IssuedNEW: Up to 6, More Layoffs in Tech - Twitter Cuts Off Internal Communications for EmployeesMore Layoffs in Tech. Healey said he was looking forward to being able to ask direct questions of his two opponents, Democrat General Treasurer Gina Raimondo and Republican Cranston Mayor Allan Fung. 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