WNRI


WNRI is a radio station located in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The station has a news & talk radio format and has been owned by Bouchard Broadcasting Inc. since 2004. WNRI began broadcasting November 28, 1954.

Programming

WNRI is generally regarded as a news/talk station with locally produced programs daily. WNRI also carries games from the Pawtucket Red Sox.

Translator

An earlier WNRI

In the 1930s and 1940s, the WNRI call letters were assigned to an NBC owned-and-operated shortwave station that transmitted from Bound Brook, New Jersey, a site it shared with NBC Blue-era WJZ. Originally, programming was a combination of network simulcasts and specially produced news and information programs in Spanish and Portuguese for Latin America.
On November 1, 1942, the United States government assumed control of all privately owned American shortwave stations for the war effort. During this period, WNRI aired programming produced by government agencies, including the early Voice of America.
While NBC retained the right to resume private control of the station after the war, they did not exercise that option, continuing to lease the facilities to the State Department for VOA broadcasts.
As of January 1, 1947, its frequencies were: