WNRI (1380
AM, "1380 AM & 99.9 FM WNRI") is a
radio station
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located in
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
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. The station has a news & talk
radio format
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and has been owned by Bouchard Broadcasting Inc. since 2004. WNRI began broadcasting November 28, 1954.
Programming
WNRI airs a news/talk format with locally produced programs daily. The station is also affiliated with several national networks, including GCN, Radio America, and SRN.
Translator
An earlier WNRI
In the 1930s and 1940s, the WNRI call letters were assigned to an
NBC
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owned-and-operated
shortwave
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station (originally W3XL) that transmitted from
Bound Brook,
New Jersey
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, a site it shared with
NBC Blue
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Beginning as one of the two radio networks owned by the N ...
-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
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.
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:
*49m: 6.1Mc.
*31m: 9.67Mc.
*25m: 11.89Mc.
*19m: 15.15 & 15.19Mc.
*15m: 21.63Mc.
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NRI or Nri may refer to :
* Kingdom of Nri, an Igbo kingdom that flourished between the 10th century and early 20th century
* National Radio Institute, a now defunct post-secondary vocational correspondence school
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News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1954
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
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