grade: Test Your Local Media Memory—-Take Our Quiz
Thursday, May 17, 2012
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
