Big Shift from TV to Digital in 2015 according to SMI, according to Media Daily News: "In what likely is the first comprehensive analysis of actual data from big agency media buys of its kind, Madison Avenues major agency holding companies have boosted their spending in digital media by $3 billion during a nine-month period ending with June 2015, and most of it came at the expense of traditional media. Horne said she hasnever married, and currently lives in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square neighborhood. However, LIN TV was forced to put WNAC back on the market almost as soon as it closed on the station's purchase due to the ownership structures of Sunrise and LIN TV. In fact, some reporters recorded conservative-sounding FM news broadcasts prior to pulling a switch to deliver live, punchy on-air news for the AM station on the hour, with headlines on the half-hour. Last week White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced the James Brady briefing room would be equipped with four seats meant for reporters who live outside Washington so-called Skype seats. In 2009, Cranston comedian Ben Hague beat out over 100 other hopefuls. PROVIDENCE, R.I. In 1976, Deborah Horne was in her early 20s and beginning her career as a reporter at The Providence Journal. In 2018, Bishop Tobin with the Diocese of Providence landed on GoLocal's 18 to Watch as the Catholic Church was and continues to remain at the center of lawsuits pertaining to the collapse of the St. Joseph pension fund. , I didn't know many people when I moved here four years ago. The hens steal their nests, and I steal their eggs still, as formerly. 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. In 1996, WPRI began producing the market's first nightly prime time newscast at 10:00p.m. on WNAC, then titled Eyewitness News at 10 on Fox Providence. While she had great opportunities in Providence, Horne said she wanted to live in a biggercity, and has found Seattle to be a good fit. 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 a number of commercial realtors, GateHouse has looked for space in Johnston, Warwick and Cranston. SNEABJ is an affiliate of the National Association of Black Journalists. Its been a good fit and a fun run. WPRO-TV was then sold to Poole Broadcasting (owners of WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan) on June 16, 1967; that sale was necessary because CapCities' purchase of KTRK-TV in Houston left it one VHF station over the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership limit at the time. Susan Hogan is leaving WPRI-12. It is a market-making green tech company that, in many ways, combines the best of Rhode Island. Bridgewater State University graduate Michaela Johnson of East Providence won the honor in 2010. Chef Mike McGovern -- formerly the chef at Red Stripe -- is taking the helm at East Greenwich's Kai Bar -- and now 241 Main Sports Bar and Grill. The story, with its incorrect attribution, was written by reporter Sam Wroblewski. WPRI-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, affiliated with CBS and MyNetworkTV. 2023 www.providencejournal.com. The Daily Beast'sDavid Freedlander dubbed Raimondo the only big win for Democrats in the US. In 2015 SNEABJ was named the 2015 chapter of the year at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in August. "He brought thatkeen lawyer's eye to everything he did. ", Barry Ritholtz, head of the research firm Fusion IQ and frequentguest on CNBC, said Haines was "a no-nonsense straight-shooter. It was eventually cancelled, but was brought back early in 2009 as a lead-in to The Rhode Show. Rhode Island's favorite TV anchor, Brian Yocono, is leaving WPRI-TV in September 2022. News personalities included Mort Blender and Walter Cryan while the beloved Hank Bouchard did a multitude of on-air duties. In 2004, an hour-long extension of WPRI's weekday morning show was added to WNAC at 7:00a.m. branded as Eyewitness News This Morning on Fox Providence. He worked for both WPRI 12 and ABC6 over the years. The long-time consumer reporter is leaving for Washington, DC as first reported by New England One. They debuted the new set and modified graphics on September 20, 2011, during their 5:00p.m. newscast. CNBC President Mark Hoffman said Haines was "always theunflappable pro. 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. NBC 10 News at Noon - #1 In this case, WNAC cannot be co-owned directly with WPRI. 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. "He resonatedwith so many people because he would speak out, and, with opinion.Too often the media lets the corporate PR army and highly trainedCEOs get their points across without question. "He was trained as an attorney," Ritholtz said. Or its story showing that an impossibly high percentage of Providence public officials are awarded special disability pensions. Before moving to Rhode Island, Caroline spent more than two years working for WBNG the CBS station in Binghamton, New York. 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. During the week, The Rhode Show was streamed live on WNAC's website. WPRI and WNAC received an on-air overhaul introducing a new news set and updated graphics on March 17, 2008. Curtis came to ABC 6 in January 2010, where he served as Chief Political Reporter, Weekend Anchor, and Weekday Morning Co-Anchor. Huffington Post is reporting that National Public Radio has dramaticly slashed its reporting staff covering the environment. In 2011, WNAC-DT2 televised local college basketball games on Wednesdays under the banner "Game Night".[11]. [15], WPRI and WNAC were the last stations in the market to upgrade their newscasts to high definition, though they were first to experiment with the format through promotional materials and debates during the election season in 2010. View Larger + She returned to intern at CBS Philadelphia during her senior year of college. 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. Media Buzz: Cumulus Shake-Up Begins, New Sunrise Show Shines, Wheres The New ProJo. Long serving General Manager Barbara Haynes for the WPRO AM and FM radio groups in Rhode Island was fired in May by executives from the parent companys Atlanta office. WhenHorne moved to Seattle, it was "a completely different experience. I couldn't have imagined everything that would happen next., Professionally, I was able to cover countless breaking news stories, co-anchor one of our weekday broadcasts, travel to the Florida panhandle as people began rebuilding after Hurricane Michael, take a deep dive into how burn pits could be affecting the health of our troops overseas, follow a Providence mother's journey to becoming a U.S. citizen, and report on a pandemic that has affected nearly every sector of this community. My race was not a factor," she said. Other remote-anchor casts are planned well in advance, to coincide with some major news or feature event Rhode Island's 350th anniversary celebration (WLNE's first remote-anchor show), or the vineyard harvest in Little Compton. I think of no news to tell you. What she doesn't missisthe often scandal-riddenpolitical environment. "I was born on the sunny side of the street." The Providence Journal's new ownership group, GateHouse Media, is looking for a new space for the offices of the newspaper. The wedding ceremony took place at their home in Foxboro. The merger was finalized on November 24. Eyewitness News has won the Massachusetts/Rhode Island Associated Press News Station of the Year award nine years in a row since 2004, its most recent coming in May 2012. Shortly after Clear Channel took over the station, WPRI entered in a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Fox affiliate WNAC (then owned by Argyle Television). Since CapCities retained the WPRO radio stations, Poole Broadcasting, so as to comply with an FCC regulation in place then that required TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different owners to use differing call signs, changed channel 12's call letters to the present WPRI-TV. Co-author of "The Last Good Heist" Tim White - WPRI Retail, Business Analysis, Consulting, Team Building, Vendor Management, Program Management, Team Reporter, writer, photographer, videographer at 630WPRO.com, Reporter, Reporter, writer, photographer, videographer at 630WPRO.com. She was the remaining member of the I-Team, the storied team once led by Dyana Koelsch and the late Jim Taricani. In August 1995, Westinghouse bought CBS for approximately $6 billion. 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. Most of the Web sites of the television stations Media General acquired since the announced merger with Young Broadcasting have also adopted this platform. What does she remember most fondly about Providence? The degenerative brain . "Rick was a tremendous help to GoLocal and he was one of the reasons were were able to expand to the West Coast. "Geddes, who will report to Murphy, will work alongside Game Change authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann to hone Bloombergs coverage as the newswire bears down on the 2016 presidential election," reports Poynter. OConnor has been with RIPR since 2006. The channel was due to join CBS because of WPRO radio's long affiliation with CBS Radio. Caroline joined the Eyewitness News team in October 2016 as a reporter. But what was jaw dropping was the how paper implied that Raimondo is an outsider saying "shewill most emphatically not represent Rhode Islands Good Old Boy network", as if the Journal is a stalwart opponent of insider dealings. View Larger + Final Cut Pro, Video, Interviewing, Journalism, Blogging, Editing, Storytelling, Broadcast, Communications Professional at Media Professional, New England Producer at Ivanhoe Broadcast News, Journalist/Communications Professional/Children's Book Author, Radio Personality/Journalist at ., writer/editor/photographer at Freelance Technical Writer. The long-time relationship between WPRO and ABC New Radio is over. Republican Cranston Mayor Allan Fung lost in his second attempt at the Rhode Island Governors office, after a bruising primary that saw former opponent and House Minority Leader opt to endorse former Republican-turned-independent (and honorary chair for President Donald Trumps campaign in Rhode Island) Joe Trillo. She spent her time there working on a story about the secret religion of Santeria. He was 69. If this was a boxing match it would have been stopped. READ MORE. NBC 10 News Sunrise at 6:00am - #1 Prior to coming to Providence, Curtis covered the 2008 and 2012 Presidential campaigns for several media outlets. 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. Hogan had won a number of New England Emmy awards during her tenure at WPRI. Markey, a top labor leader for the RI National Education Association, has drawn criticism by Democrats, Republicans and multiple municipal attorneys because READ MORE, Peter Neronha, the new Attorney General, takes over for the controversial Peter Kilmartin. I generally defend these things, since I like it when news organizations find ways to make money. In 1989, Knight Ridder left the broadcasting business, selling WPRI and WTKR in Norfolk, Virginia, to Narragansett Television LP, a locally based firm. 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. She fondly remembers learning the business of reporting and writing on deadline during her time at the Journal, beforeshe madethe switch to television journalism 4 years later, at Channel 12. This will wipe out most major gains this year -- up an estimated 22.7% to $24 billion, due to a record-breaking political advertising year. The company plans on eliminating more employees at the beginning of the next year by outsourcing the operation's copy editing and page design positions to an out-of-state office in order to increase the company's bottom line to make it more profitable for its investors. 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). "Rhode Island Comic Con, in its application for press passes to this year's event, insists that news organizations planning to cover it pledge to avoid "insulting or disrespectful comments and giving a bad image of the show." Get the Android Weather app from Google Play, Ukraine native living in RI believes war is far from, Peoples Savings Bank building bought for $2.2M, PC Friars, Xavier to battle for 2nd in Big East, Olive oil in coffee? Check its story on the nearly 50 retired Providence city employees, who collectively draw more than $5.5 million a year in pension money despite the city's poor financial condition. Matos will be faced with taking on some of the most difficult issues in the state. NBC 10 News Conference - #1. New England is getting a new digital business newspaper. GoLocal's Portland, Oregon site unveiled a situation at Portland State University. Maybe she was taking an Eyewitness Snooze. In 2014, a Readers Poll in Rhode Island Monthly magazine voted Sean the best male TV reporter in Rhode Island. , During my time here, I grew as a journalist and as a person. It was expanded to one hour in mid-1995. This was to accommodate the move of MyRITV, the market's MyNetworkTV affiliate, from WNAC-DT2 to WPRI-DT2 as part of a broader shuffle where the programming and CW affiliation of WLWC's main channel was purchased by Nexstar several months before after WLWC's owner, OTA Broadcasting, sold their spectrum in the FCC's 2016 incentive auction and decided on a channel share with WPXQ-TV. The story about an alleged rape at a fraternity at the University of Virginia is a travesty in far too many ways. WNAC-TV also discontinued regular analog service on February 17, 2009, and began operation of its new digital facility on channel 12. The 950,000-square-foot property at 201 Brookline Avenue is owned by Samuels & Associates and is within a five minute walk from Fenway Park. Beginning in 2007, Daniels spent nearly six years at GateHouse Media New England, whose string of 100 newspapers and 160 web sites includes The Bulletin in Norwich. This is similar to the 51% who said they often got news from digital devices in 2021, but lower than the 60% of those who said the same in 2020," found Pew. It has always been our policy to welcome the press to our events and report on them in a manner which is accurate and fair Lawrence Lepore General Manager, RI Convention Center / Dunkin Donuts Center. The other LIN TV-owned stations (irrespective of network affiliations) followed suit within two months ending the company's long partnership with WorldNow. We are so pleased to announce Alisons move to morning news, said Chris Lanni, News Director. Impacto publishes news and commentary in both English and Spanish. Baron lead news and political coverage for the Pawtucket Times for decades and his column, "Politics as Usual" was a must read for every elected official. CapCities retained ownership of the WPRO radio stations until 1993, with the last seven years of their ownership saw the stations being ABC-owned stations affiliated with the ABC Radio Network. Halperin made the announcement in a tweet on Wednesday. Buying Spree Continues: Paolino Purchases Former Peoples Savings Bank Building at 70 Kennedy PlazaBuying Spree Continues: Paolino, Brown Med School Prof Told to Prostitute Himself To Secure Additional Funding, Says Fed LawsuitBrown Med School Prof, RIDOT Director Alvitis Reconfirmation Opposed by Advocacy Groups at State House HearingRIDOT Director Alvitis Reconfirmation, Artist to Know: S.W. On Monday,630WPRO wrongly stated that The Providence Journal broke the story. 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. Sports Anchor/Reporter, WPRI-TV Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Aug 2021 - Present1 year 7 months Providence, Rhode Island, United States Anchor | Host | Reporter | Writer | Producer |. 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