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Good news for public radio in RI: Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch announced today that his office has made final approval of the sale of radio station WRNI by the Trustees of Boston University and the WRNI Foundation to Rhode Island Public Radio. Lynch...
John Carpilio , a veteran of local broadcasting, is no longer in his post as news director at WRNI , Rhode Island's public radio station. GM Joe O'Connor offered the following statement: With sadness today I have decided to let John Carpilio go...
UPDATED Friday, 3:25 pm: Channel 12 Statement . WPRI GM Jay Howell just sent this: “While we don’t normally comment on personnel issues, I will say that WPRI 12 and FOX Providence are adjusting to the needs of our environment and re-engineering the way...
WLNE-TV, Channel 6 , has commonly been thought to be under greater financial pressure than in the past, since it no longer enjoys the more deep-pocketed ownership of California-based Freedom Communications. Yet it's the two market-leaders in Rhode...
David Gregory is getting the love, but also deserving of kudos + congrats is a URI grad and one-time staffer of the AP office in Providence, CNN's John King. From Politico : CNN plans to announce this week that chief national correspondent John King...
Dan Kennedy's take : I could snark away, but I'd prefer to give David Gregory a chance to prove himself as the new host of "Meet the Press." The announcement should come soon, according to the Huffington Post . Of the Politico's...
Back in June, I reported that WJAR-TV's Bill Rappleye was pursuing the time-honored adversarial relationship between reporters and elected officials when he asked Governor Carcieri about a nepotism-related matter. The gov's people -- and even...
Steven Stark makes a lively observation: the national fade of the Republican Party coincides with the rise of conservative talk-radio: Rush Limbaugh's show was syndicated in 1988. It's been a steady climb toward the top of the ratings for him...
Changes are inevitable as the Rhode Island blogosphere moves forward. Blogs will continue to take up part of the slack created by the ProJo's retreat. Some journalists will wrest with the balance between blogging and other demands. And some blogs...
From AJR (h/t Romenesko ). A lot has changed in the 50 years since Edward R. Murrow made his now-famous speech challenging television news to live up to its potential. What's sad is how much is still the same. . . . This instrument can teach, it can...
In writing a few years ago about the shrinking commitment of TV news to political coverage , I noted this prevalent belief in the broadcasting community: "If we had five minutes of politics at six o'clock consistently for one year, our ratings...
Just how difficult is it for the competitors of Channel 10 to overcome the perennial ratings leader in local TV news? So much so that WJAR still beat the combined ratings of Channels 6 and 12, for the period between 6:45 and 7 AM this past Wednesday ...
Former Channel 12 anchor Steve Aveson, whose time at the station recently came to an end , got in touch late last week. He say he hopes to "remain actively involved in Rhode Island and in Providence." Aveson, who joined WPRI -WNAC in 2002 -...
I'm pleased to share the word that my friend Tim White , the investigative reporter at WPRI/WNAC-TV, has gotten the nod as the new host of Newsmakers , the station's Sunday morning public affairs show. There's some nice poetry here, considering...
After following the rise and fall and rise of WRNI, it's good to see how Rhode Island's public radio station has finally separately itself from Boston University, its previous license-holder. And this statement from station GM Joe O'Connor...
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