WLNE-TV
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Facility ID | 22591 |
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ERP | 294 kW |
HAAT | 302 m (991 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°51′55.4″N 71°17′12.7″W / 41.865389°N 71.286861°W |
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Website | www |
WLNE-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Providence, Rhode Island, area. The station is owned by Standard Media, and maintains studios in the Orms Building in downtown Providence; its transmitter is based in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.
History
Early years (1963–1977)
The station began broadcasting on January 1, 1963, as WTEV from studios on 430 County Street in New Bedford.
ABC had a curious history in Rhode Island prior to WTEV's sign-on. In the earliest years of television in Providence, all four networks (including
Even though Providence was big enough to support three full network affiliates, it soon became apparent that channel 16 would not be resurrected in the near future. The owners of the future WTEV decided to seek a waiver of FCC technical regulations to allow VHF channel 6 to be added to the FCC's Table of Allocations.[4] The channel 6 license had originally been allocated to the island of Nantucket off Cape Cod, in the Boston market. However, at the time, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules required that a station have its studios and offices located in its community of license, and numerous FCC filings argued that it was not practical to operate a full-service television station from Nantucket. Since a channel 6 allocation in the Providence area would have been short-spaced to WCSH-TV, WFIL-TV and WRGB, the FCC allocation was modified to New Bedford—the nearest city on the Massachusetts side of the market where a transmitter could be built that could decently cover Providence while protecting all three stations from interference.
New Bedford and
WTEV was founded by WTEV Television, Inc.,[5] a group that was 55-percent owned by E. Anthony and Sons, publisher of the New Bedford Standard-Times and owner of WNBH radio (1340 AM and 98.1 FM, now WCTK); the remaining 45 percent was held by New England Television, the holder of the license for the old WNET.[6] In 1966, shortly after E. Anthony and Sons sold the Standard-Times and WNBH, WTEV was purchased by Steinman Stations of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.[7]
Switch to CBS (1977–1995)
On June 27, 1977, WTEV swapped affiliations with WPRI and became a CBS affiliate after Knight Ridder Television, which had just purchased WPRI, cut an affiliation deal that switched two of the three television stations it owned at the time to ABC. At the time, ABC was aggressively pursuing strong NBC and CBS affiliates to switch as their ratings rose during the late 1970s, and succeeded in persuading some longtime NBC and CBS stations to switch (as an example, KSTP-TV in Minneapolis–Saint Paul and WSB-TV in Atlanta, both longtime NBC affiliates, switched to ABC during that period).
In 1979, the Steinmans sold WTEV and their flagship station,
In 1983, Pulitzer sold WLNE to Freedom Communications. This sale was necessary because Pulitzer had acquired WFBC-TV (now WYFF) in Greenville, South Carolina, and WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, that same year, leaving the company one VHF station over the FCC's ownership limit of the time.
Return to ABC (1995–present)
CBS announced in March 1995 that it would purchase WPRI-TV and move its programming there.[8] That May, Freedom agreed to affiliate WLNE with ABC in a long-term deal tied to the renewal of the network's affiliation with WTVC in Chattanooga, Tennessee; in the process, it rejected a bid by Fox to move its affiliation from WNAC-TV (channel 64, and the legal successor to the former WNET) to WLNE.[9] At midnight on September 10, 1995, WPRI and WLNE reversed the 1977 swap; WLNE then began calling itself ABC6.[10]
Early in the afternoon of May 4, 2005, WLNE's analog transmitter was knocked off the air due to a faulty section of transmission line on the tower. The transmitter had been running at 80% power due to another unrelated technical problem that occurred approximately two weeks earlier. Although Dish Network satellite and some cable systems continued to receive broadcasts through fiber optic connections, over-the-air and DirecTV satellite subscribers were left without a local ABC affiliate (DirecTV gets its signal via antenna). Some cable providers made special temporary arrangements to carry Boston ABC station WCVB during this outage. The WLNE transmitter was operational again late Thursday evening after 32 hours off the air.[11]
Sale to Global Broadcasting
In August 2006,
Financial struggles, bankruptcy
On June 23, NewsBlues reported that Global Broadcasting co-owner Robinson Ewert had left the company amidst a dispute with CBS over licensing fees for programs originating from
Global Broadcasting filed for
On February 10, 2011,
Sale to Citadel Communications
On March 22, Citadel Communications was approved as the new owner of WLNE by receiver Matthew McGowan.[22] The company met the approval of ABC, and took over station operation on May 1 under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with McGowan and Global, under the name Global Communications LLC, until the sale was approved by the FCC, at which point Citadel would assume full ownership.[23] On April 5, WLNE revealed programming changes made in light of the sale, which included the return of CBS Television Distribution shows The Insider and Inside Edition.[24] On April 25, veteran sales manager Chris Tzianabos was named vice president and general manager of WLNE, replacing Steve Doerr.[25] Global CEO Kevin O'Brien tried to appeal the sale in court,[26] arguing that attorney McGowan did not try hard enough to achieve a higher sale price for the station.[27] However, he did not succeed in his efforts, and on June 1, it was announced that the FCC had approved the license transfer, therefore finalizing the acquisition.[28]
In September 2011, as had been promised by Citadel upon its acquisition of the station, WLNE-TV began broadcasting newscasts and
After the sale of
Sale to Standard Media
On May 16, 2019, it was announced that Standard Media, a company led by former Young Broadcasting and Media General executive Deb McDermott, would acquire WLNE and KLKN for $83 million.[31] The sale was completed on September 5.[32]
Programming
As an ABC affiliate, WLNE runs virtually the entire ABC programming schedule. Effective with the 1995 affiliation switch, Saturday morning infomercials were replaced with ABC's Saturday morning program block (currently Weekend Adventure; that block replaced ABC Kids in 2011). WLNE carries the nationally syndicated public affairs program Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien on Sunday mornings.
Past programming preemptions and deferrals
As WTEV, the station moderately preempted ABC shows, in most every case a low-rated program. This did not pose as much of a problem, since most viewers could still get the full ABC schedule on Boston's WNAC until 1972, and on WCVB afterward. During afternoon hours, WTEV ran
Beginning in 1980, WLNE ran an afternoon movie from 4 to 6 p.m. By 1982, the station was also running a movie weekdays from 9 to 11 a.m. These movies were run under the
By the fall of 1988, WLNE was only running an afternoon movie weekdays and began clearing CBS' 10 a.m. hour. In the fall of 1989, WLNE dropped CBS'
For many years, WLNE carried the syndicated shows
Local programming
The longest-running program on channel 6 is TV Mass from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River, which began in 1963. Produced by WLNE, the show was originally aired at 8 a.m. It is normally taped at the chapel of Bishop Stang High School in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Easter Mass and Christmas Mass are normally taped at St. Mary's Cathedral in Fall River, Massachusetts.[37] As of 2011, the masses are independently produced and continue to air on WLNE, with the weekly mass at 11 a.m. on Sunday mornings and the Easter and Christmas Mass at 11:30 a.m. and Noon respectively.
Prior to its host's retirement, the longest running program on WLNE was The Truman Taylor Show. The Sunday morning public affairs program debuted very early in 1963. Numerous politicians appeared on the show, including two
On June 19, 2016, WLNE debuted In the Arena, with former Providence mayor Joe Paolino, Jr. as host.[38] The show initially consisted of a round table discussion with guest political analysts and Paolino as moderator. It has since evolved into a more traditional one-on-one interview with Paolino and a single guest. The show's title is a reference to a passage in President Theodore Roosevelt's Citizenship in a Republic speech about "The Man in the Arena." In the Arena airs Sundays at 7 a.m.[39]
WLNE had been the market home of The
WLNE became the first station in Rhode Island to broadcast a local program in high-definition when it aired
Caught in Providence
Caught in Providence is a
In December 2017, it was announced that
News operation
WLNE presently broadcasts 27 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays).
For most of its history, WLNE has placed a distant third in the market, behind WJAR and WPRI. The station has been known for numerous turnovers in format, talent and management over the years for the purpose of increasing its newscast ratings and sales revenue, all having little or no effect. Under Global Broadcasting's ownership, changes in image and news coverage resulted in a marginal ratings increase and for a time, ABC6 News was promoted as "New England's Fastest Growing News". The ratings surge did not last for long. However, on March 29, 2011, WLNE scored its first late news victory in years, finishing number one at 11 p.m. following the series premiere of network medical drama Body of Proof, which was filmed entirely in Rhode Island for its first season.
On October 24, 2007, WLNE announced that infamous former Providence mayor and WPRO personality Vincent "Buddy" Cianci would join the station as chief political analyst and contributing editor starting on November 1.[48] Cianci was a political analyst at WLNE in the late 1980s. As part of his duties at the station, he moderated a daily segment on ABC6 News. It was first entitled Your Attention Please and was co-moderated in-studio by former Chief Reporter Jim Hummel. Following Hummel's departure from the station in July 2008, it was changed to Buddy TV and weeknight anchor John DeLuca became co-moderator. The segment aired live during the former ABC6 News First At Four with Cianci first appearing in-studio and then from the East Providence studios of WPRO, where the segment was simulcast during his weekday show that aired from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. In October 2008, he started co-hosting the Sunday morning public affairs program ABC6 News On the Record with DeLuca.
With the change in station ownership in May 2011, the segment name was changed to The World According to Buddy with a solo Cianci in the ABC6 studios. The segment was taped live during the noon newscasts and re-aired during the 5 o'clock news. He also became a solo host of On the Record. On June 25, 2014, Cianci announced that he would be seeking a third term as mayor of Providence as an Independent candidate. As a result, he had to step down from his position at WLNE as well as WPRO for the duration of the campaign. Former chief political reporter Mark Curtis took over as host of the program while Cianci campaigned for office. He lost the bid to Democrat Jorge Elorza and returned to his previous positions shortly after the 2014 general elections.
On January 27, 2016, Cianci was taken from the WLNE studios to Miriam Hospital after falling ill during the taping of On the Record and was pronounced dead on January 28 at age 74.[49] The episode did not make air, with a special on Cianci airing in its place on January 31.[50] The Sunday morning public affairs program was then put on hiatus until June 2016 when In the Arena with Joe Paolino debuted.
On December 17, 2007, WLNE announced it would launch ABC6 News First at Four, the market's first-ever 4 o'clock news on January 14, 2008. Described as a "hard newscast" and not morning-show style fluff, First at Four gave WLNE a head start in coverage of weather and politics. The hour-long newscast aired for just over three years and competed head to head with The Oprah Winfrey Show airing on WJAR. First at Four last aired in April 2011 prior to the sale of the station to Citadel. In March 2020, under Standard Media, WLNE began airing a special half-hour 4 o'clock newscast with extended coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. This newscast became a regular part of the schedule on April 13, 2020, and the First at Four title was revived.[51]
In May 2009, WLNE launched a 10 o'clock newscast on Sunday mornings. Previously, it had only produced weekend morning newscasts for NewsChannel 5. It was the only Providence station with a local news broadcast airing at that time. In May 2011, Citadel moved the newscast to 7:30 a.m. and added Saturday morning broadcasts in addition to Sunday mornings. The weekend morning newscasts were cancelled in 2012.
In June 2009, the station launched the market's first (since the 1980s) 7 p.m. newscast on weeknights, filling the spot vacated by Entertainment Tonight, which was taken off the schedule due to the station's dispute with CBS Television Distribution. In March 2011, this newscast was replaced with infomercials, with the newscast airing only in the event they could not sell the time slot on a given day.[52] After the station's sale to Citadel, this newscast was officially replaced with syndicated programming the following month.
On April 5, 2011, WLNE announced a new programming lineup that included the addition of a 5 p.m. newscast on April 25.[24] The station then began to shift towards video journalism, and all remaining reporters and future hires were required to be one-person bands.[53] On September 13, WLNE became the second station in the market to broadcast news in high-definition, behind WJAR and just a week ahead of WPRI/WNAC.[29] Along with the transition came a standardized graphics package used by other Citadel stations. The station received the company's standardized news set in August 2012.
In weather segments, WLNE uses live regional radar from the National Weather Service local office in Taunton, Massachusetts, along with high-resolution satellite. The segments are presented on-air under the Stormtracker label. From 2012 to 2017, the Stormtracker Weather Team was certified as providing Southern New England's most accurate forecast by WeatheRate, an independent weather research firm.[54] On July 19, 2012, WLNE became the first station in Southern New England to be recognized as StormReady by the National Weather Service.[55]
WLNE won the Massachusetts/Rhode Island Associated Press News Station of the Year award four years in a row from 1997 to 2000 and again in 2002. The station also won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting two consecutive years.
Due to its coverage area overlapping with Boston's ABC affiliate WCVB, the two stations share resources for coverage of southeastern Massachusetts.
NewsChannel 5
NewsChannel 5, formerly known as the Rhode Island News Channel (RINC), began broadcasting on November 30, 1998. Operated by WLNE (until 2012) and Cox Communications, it was the first and only 24-hour local news channel in the state. It provided non-stop news 24 hours a day, seven days a week, mainly consisting of rebroadcasts of news that aired on WLNE. The station could only be found on Cox Cable channel 5 in Rhode Island. NewsChannel 5 also provided live, continuing coverage of breaking news and other events. When severe weather struck, the WLNE weather team provided up to the minute forecasts.
Prior to Citadel Communications' acquisition of WLNE, there were three live newscasts that aired exclusively on NewsChannel 5. From its launch, a weekend morning newscast was seen exclusively on the station. As of May 2011, this newscast was also broadcast on the main channel. On September 29, 2008, WLNE began offering an extra hour of local news on weekday mornings at 7 a.m. An extended hour of Good Morning Providence was one of two 7 o'clock local newscasts in the market, the other being an extended hour of WPRI's Eyewitness News This Morning on WNAC-TV. This newscast was no longer broadcast as of May 2011. WLNE occasionally aired a 10 o'clock newscast during major news events or when sports programming preempted the 10 o'clock news on competitor WNAC. As of May 2011, this newscast no longer aired.
For a brief period in September 2009, an audio feed of NewsChannel 5 was broadcast on radio station
Notable current on-air staff
- Joseph R. Paolino, Jr.– host of In the Arena
Notable former on-air staff
- Alisyn Camerota (now with CNN)
- Steve Cascione (now with the Rhode Island Department of Transportation)
- Buddy Cianci (deceased; January 28, 2016)[49]
- Walter Cryan (retired)
- Mark Curtis (now with WOWK-TV/Nexstar Media Group in Charleston, West Virginia)
- Gail Huff (later with WCVB-TV in Boston; WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C.; and WBIN-TV/NH1 News in Derry, New Hampshire; retired)
- Gene Lavanchy (now with WFXT in Boston)[57]
- Providence Journal, semi-retired)
- Kristen Welker (now with NBC News in Washington; co-anchor of Weekend Today)
- Chuck Wilson (later with ESPN Radio, retired)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
---|---|---|---|---|
6.1 | 720p | 16:9 |
WLNE-DT | Main WLNE-TV programming / ABC |
6.2 | 480i | WLNE-D2 | Grit | |
6.3 | WLNE-D3 | Ion Mystery | ||
6.4 | WLNE-D4 | Defy TV |
The station's analog video broadcast at a frequency of 83.26
. Both frequencies were +10 kHz shift from the center channel 6 frequency to prevent interference with other stations on channel 6 (as stated above). WLNE's analog audio could be picked up on the lower end of the dial on most FM radios at 87.7 MHz. WLNE regularly mentioned this additional way of coverage. This was true of all analog channel 6 stations in the United States. After February 17, 2009, channel 6 audio on WLNE was no longer available on the radio. (It was still available on most other full-powered channel 6 stations in the United States through June 12.)Analog-to-digital conversion
WLNE-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over
service on its analog signal for 60 days following the shutdown. The station aired a looping DTV education program as well as all of its newscasts. Due to this service being broadcast on analog channel 6, audio was still available on 87.7 FM when this period ended.On January 16, 2012, WLNE, along with all Citadel stations, began carrying
WLNE's digital signal operates at 294,000 watts—equivalent to 1.47 million watts for an analog transmitter. Still, due to the fact it now operates from Rehoboth with the other major Rhode Island stations, it has a signal comparable to WJAR and WPRI for the first time ever.
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