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The station's main news anchors are Gene Valicenti and Patrice Wood. Frank Coletta has anchored the station's morning newscast (Sunrise) for 20 years. The stations's radar is called "Doppler 10000".

WJAR offers NBC Weather Plus on Digital 10.2 . Since the start of the network, WJAR was the closest station to the Boston area, until May 2006 when WHDH began offering the all weather channel.

As the Providence and Boston television markets overlap in coverage, WJAR shares its resources with Boston's NBC affiliate, WHDH, in news coverage of Southeastern Massachusetts.

History

The station signed on air for the first time on July 10, 1949, as Rhode Island's first television station. It was sister station to WJAR radio (now WHJJ), which came on the air on September 6, 1922. Both the television and radio stations were originally owned by The Outlet Company, a department store once located in Providence, which also purchased other stations across the nation. WJAR received national attention early on for its coverage of Hurricane Carol.

While officially an NBC affiliate, WJAR often aired shows from other networks which did not have affiliates in Rhode Island, such as ABC, DuMont, and especially CBS. This multiple affiliation came to an end as additional television stations signed on in the state.

The Outlet Company was sold in 1980, by which time the company had left the department store business to concentrate on broadcasting. The station even stayed on during a fire in the Outlet Building, which also housed their main studios, in October of 1986. Many Rhode Islanders can even remember the live broadcast of the fire, with the building exploding over their reporter's head. In 1996, NBC acquired the station in a group deal. It was around this time that the station's offices and broadcast studios were moved to a new studio in an industrial area of Cranston, just south of Providence.

WJAR was one of four NBC O&Os in smaller markets that were put up for sale on January 9, 2006, along with stations in Columbus, Ohio; Birmingham, Alabama; and Raleigh, North Carolina. Except for the Birmingham station, these stations were also once owned by Outlet. On April 6, 2006, NBC Universal and Media General announced that Media General would purchase WJAR as part of a $600 million four station deal between the two companies[1]. The deal was completed on June 26, 2006; as a result, WJAR became Media General's first TV station in New England. [2] Even after the owner switch, WJAR's website is still in the format used by websites of NBC O&O stations.

As of September 13, 2006, WJAR has two alumni of the news staff, Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira, co-hosting The Today Show. Vieira started out as a reporter on the station in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and Lauer was co-host of "PM Magazine," an evening local interest show which was on the air in the early 1980s.

Newscasts

Weekdays

Weekends

Anchors

(Former anchor Doug White died on August 15, 2006. He had been battling cancer, and had been off the air for approximately a year.)

NBC 10 Weather Plus Meteorologists

Additionally, up until recently, Art Lake was still listed as being a member of the weather team, despite having left the station approximately two years ago after suffering a stroke. He had been the last remaining original newsmember on the station, having been with WJAR-AM for five years prior to his service on television.

Sports

Reporters

Administration

Logo

WJAR's "NBC10" logo is borrowed from former sister station WCAU in Philadelphia. In its earliest days, WJAR's logo included a Rhode Island Red rooster, the state bird of Rhode Island. Prior to its purchase by NBC, the logo had included various versions of a different, stylized "10" above the call letters WJAR for the previous twenty years.

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Broadcast television in the Providence/New Bedford market (Nielsen DMA #51)

WGBH 2 (PBS) - WLNE 6 (ABC) - WJAR 10 (NBC) - WPRI 12 (CBS) - WUNI 27 (UNI) - WLWC 28 (The CW) - WSBE 36 (PBS) - WGBX 44 (PBS) - WRIW 50 (TEL) - WEDN 53 (PBS/CPTV) - WNAC 64 (FOX/MNTV) - WPXQ 69 (i)
Local cable television channels
WLNE Rhode Island News Channel - Eyewitness News Pinpoint Weather Station

Media General

ABC Network Affiliates: WJBF | WMBB | WTVQ

CW Network Affiliates: WCBD-DT2 | WCWJ | WNCT-DT2 | WYCW

MyNetworkTV Affiliates: WBTW-DT2 | WSAV-DT2

Other Assets: Atlee Park | Blockdot | Boxerjam Media | Professional Communications Systems

¹The sale of these stations to New Vision Television is now awaiting finalization.

²The sale of this station to Morris Multimedia is now awaiting finalization.

Annual Revenue: $80.2 million USD (FY 2004) | Employees: Unknown at this time. | Stock Symbol: NYSE: MEG | Website: www.mediageneral.com

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