WBUR Group To Keep Ownership Of WRNI

[Radio1968]

from turnto10.com (6/14):

WBUR Group To Keep Ownership Of WRNI
WBUR Announced Plans In September To Sell WRNI

POSTED: 8:10 pm EDT June 14, 2005
UPDATED: 8:23 pm EDT June 14, 2005

PROVIDENCE -- Public radio station WRNI-AM is no longer up for sale, station owners WBUR-FM and Boston University announced Tuesday, reversing course nine months after announcing the station was being sold.

Nancy Sterling, a spokeswoman for the WBUR Group, would not give details of the decision, but said the group has decided to retain ownership and management of the station indefinitely.

Read the whole story here: http://www.turnto10.com/news/4609520/detail.html

 

[Eli Polonsky]

They should have mentioned that the official announcement also includes WXNI in Westerly.


> from turnto10.com (6/14):
>
> WBUR Group To Keep Ownership Of WRNI
> WBUR Announced Plans In September To Sell WRNI
>
> POSTED: 8:10 pm EDT June 14, 2005
> UPDATED: 8:23 pm EDT June 14, 2005
>
> PROVIDENCE -- Public radio station WRNI-AM is no longer up
> for sale, station owners WBUR-FM and Boston University
> announced Tuesday, reversing course nine months after
> announcing the station was being sold.
>
> Nancy Sterling, a spokeswoman for the WBUR Group, would not
> give details of the decision, but said the group has decided
> to retain ownership and management of the station
> indefinitely.
>
> Read the whole story here:
> http://www.turnto10.com/news/4609520/detail.html
>

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

This is also good news for University of Rhode Island students and community volunteers who work at the college's campus station WRIU-90.3. They should be celebrating.

Why??

Had WBUR decided to sell-off WRNI-1290/WXNI-1230 to a commercial broadcaster, URI would have flipped WRIU to a 24/7 NPR news/information format faster than you could say "All Things Considered".

 

[jlehmann]

> This is also good news for University of Rhode Island
> students and community volunteers who work at the college's
> campus station WRIU-90.3. They should be celebrating.
>
> Why??
>
> Had WBUR decided to sell-off WRNI-1290/WXNI-1230 to a
> commercial broadcaster, URI would have flipped WRIU to a
> 24/7 NPR news/information format faster than you could say
> "All Things Considered".
>

Why do you alway say that like it's fact, and it was going to happen? I bet the folks at URI don't appreciate these posts.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

I really feel that had WBUR sold-off their two Rhode Island stations to commercial broadcasters, URI would have quickly moved to flip WRIU to NPR.

Otherwise, NPR programming would not have been available in much of Rhode Island.

URI officials probably would have seen visions of a decently-sized audience listening to NPR news/info programming on WRIU, and the pledge $$$ that programming would attract.

Fortunately for those at WRIU, WRNI and WXNI won't be sold to commercial broadcasters, so things will continue as before at 90.3 in Kingston.

 

[Radio1968]

Why? RI never had NPR before WRNI/WXNI.

> I really feel that had WBUR sold-off their two Rhode Island
> stations to commercial broadcasters, URI would have quickly
> moved to flip WRIU to NPR.
>
> Otherwise, NPR programming would not have been available in
> much of Rhode Island.
>
> URI officials probably would have seen visions of a
> decently-sized audience listening to NPR news/info
> programming on WRIU, and the pledge $$$ that programming
> would attract.
>
> Fortunately for those at WRIU, WRNI and WXNI won't be sold
> to commercial broadcasters, so things will continue as
> before at 90.3 in Kingston.
>

 

[pqgeorge]

Most of Rhode Island was well served by 100,000 watt WGBH for years and most of the Providence area was able to hear WBUR quite well. In addition, NPR programming was available on various stations in the 88-92 MHz range from nearby Connecticut and Central/Western Massachusetts. I think NPR has enough stations already as it is. Leave the college stations alone.


> Why? RI never had NPR before WRNI/WXNI.
>
> > I really feel that had WBUR sold-off their two Rhode
> Island
> > stations to commercial broadcasters, URI would have
> quickly
> > moved to flip WRIU to NPR.
> >
> > Otherwise, NPR programming would not have been available
> in
> > much of Rhode Island.
> >
> > URI officials probably would have seen visions of a
> > decently-sized audience listening to NPR news/info
> > programming on WRIU, and the pledge $$$ that programming
> > would attract.
> >
> > Fortunately for those at WRIU, WRNI and WXNI won't be sold
>
> > to commercial broadcasters, so things will continue as
> > before at 90.3 in Kingston.
> >
> <P ID="signature">______________
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