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WPRI NAMED NEWS STATION OF THE YEAR BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

                     WPRI WINS FIVE ASSOCIATED PRESS BROADCAST AWARDS

For the second straight year, Eyewitness News was named News Station of the Year by theMassachusetts and Rhode Island Associated Press Broadcasters.  The awards will be handed out on April 2, 2005.

Eyewitness News won five awards, more than any other Providence Television station.

WPRI also won first place honors for:

            Best Newscast,  Eyewitness News at 6

            Best Weathercast, Pinpoint Weather

Feature reporting, Nightclub Fire, One year later

            Best sports program, Red Sox Post Game wrap from the World Series

�At Eyewitness News we are proud of the accomplishment of our news team,�  says Gary Brown, News Director WPRI/WNAC.  ï¿½It is our goal to give the viewers of Southern New England the best newscast every day and we are pleased to be recognized for our hard work.�

WPRI/WNAC competed in the B television division, which includes Providence and Springfield, MA.

WPRI 12 is owned by the Rhode Island based LIN Television. WNAC is owned by Super Towers and operated by LIN Television. WPRI also programs the Pinpoint Weather Station, a 24 hour local weather channel operating on digital TV and on COX Communications in Rhode Island .

LIN is one of American's pure play broadcasters owning/operating television stations in New Haven, Connecticut, Norfolk, Virginia, Indianapolis, Indiana, Dayton, Ohio, Toledo, Ohio, Austin, Texas, Decatur, Illinois, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Buffalo, New York and Springfield, Massachusetts.