WLNE-TV

WLNE-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for Rhode Island and the South Coast of Massachusetts. It is licensed to New Bedford, Massachusetts, but is headquartered in and operates from studios at 10 Orms Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It is one of two major Rhode Island stations (the other being CW affiliate WLWC) licensed to the Massachusetts side of the market. WLNE broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 49 from a transmitter in Rehoboth, Massachusetts,

WLNE is owned by Bronxville, New York-based Citadel Communications, who acquired the station in 2011 as a result of the bankruptcy of its previous owners, Global Broadcasting. Citadel Communications is unrelated to the former Citadel Broadcasting Corporation, which owned several stations in the Providence market, including 630 WPRO, before being acquired by Cumulus Media in 2011.