Test Your Local Media Memory---Take Our Quiz

Test Your Local Media Memory---Take Our Quiz

Think you really know a thing or two about Providence Media?

If so, now if your chance to test your knowledge of news personalities related to radio and TV. Everyone knows who John Ghiorse is of course – but do you remember who Barry Krieger is and what station he worked for?

Our trip down memory lane should jog some old memories – and hopefully make readers say “oh, yea, I remember him/her”. The answers will be listed below – and no cheating!

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1. Ken Malloy – was an anchor at what TV station?

WPRI-Channel 12

WJAR-Channel 10

WLNE-Channel 6

 

2. Channel 10 first signed on the air as the state’s first TV station on what date?

July 10th, 1949

July 4th, 1966

December 25th, 1939

 

3. Matt Lauer worked for what TV station as a PM Magazine host before his gig at Today?

Channel 6

Channel 12

Channel 10

 

4. WPRO-TV is now called?

WJAR-TV

WPRI-TV

WHJJ-TV

WLNE-TV

 

5. Janice Glynn, former Channel 12 anchor, was on the air from:

1994-1999

1984-1989

1974-1979

 

6. Frank Coletta’s first job at Channel 10 in 1978 was:

Mail courier

Assignment Editor

Photographer

 

7. Gay Dawson was on what TV station doing the weather from 1987-1989

Channel 10

Channel 12

Channel 6

 

8. He was known as the “Dean of RI Talk Radio”

Steve White

Sherm Strickhouser

Milt Fullerton

 

9. This guy used to work at Channel 12 and then went on to host a National entertainment TV show:

Tom Lewis

Tony Potts

Kurt Mack

 

10. Salty Brine was on the Morning Man at WPRO for:

75 years

50 years

40 years

 

11. This current TV news man has his own radio talk show on Saturday on WPRO-AM:

Tim White

Gene Valicenti

John DeLuca

 

12. Former Channel 6 Anchor Dave Layman used to anchor with:

Ann Conway

Patrice Wood

Karen Southern

 

13. Ron Harbaugh was an anchor at what TV station:

Channel 12

Channel 10

Channel 6

Channel 36

 

14. He was the *FIRST TV meteorologist in Providence in 1968 and was told before he got the job “You may not be what we are looking for”:

Art Lake

John Ghiorse

John Flanders

 

15. What job did Jess Atkinson do at Channel 12:

News Anchor

Sports Reporter

Traffic Reporter

 

16. 920-WHJJ-Radio used to go by what call letters before it was sold by the Outlet Corporation:

WICE

WADK

WJAR

 

17. Channel 6 Meteorologist Steve Cascione has been forecasting the weather in these parts for:

20-years

28-years

32-years

 

18. GoLocal Sports Ace John Rooke was Sports Director at which station:

Channel 10

Channel 12

Channel 6

 

19. This person is credited with helping to introduce sports talk radio to RI when he began on WEAN-AM radio in 1981:

Rick O’Brien

Ken Bell

Chuck Wilson

 

20. He co-hosts a Saturday sports show on WEEI-103.7 FM with John Rooke and breaks sports stories for GoLocal like no other:

Frank Carpano

Coach John Colletto

Scott Cordischi

 

Answers:

1.) WJAR

2.) July 10th, 1949

3.) Channel 10

4.) WPRI-TV

5.) 1984-1989

6.) Assignment Editor

7.) Channel 12

8.) Sherm Strickhouser

9.) Tony Potts

10.) 50 years

11.) Gene Valicenti

12.) Ann Conway

13.) Channel 6

14.)John Ghiorse

15) Sports Anchor

16) WJAR

17) 28-years

18) Channel 12

19) Chuck Wilson

20) Scott Cordischi

Ranking:

1-5 correct - you must be new to these parts or under the age of 25

6-10 correct - you love local media, but also got out and enjoyed life

11-15 correct - you are a local news junky, listen to far too much talk radio and are a member of the Suda Prohaska fan club

16-20 correct - you are obsessed with local media and think that Doug White and Walter Cryan are the two coolest Rhode Islanders of all-time