WPRO (630 AM) is a commercial radio station in Providence, Rhode Island. It is owned by Cumulus Media, broadcasting a talk radio format, simulcast on co-owned 99.7 WEAN-FM. The studios for WPRO and other Cumulus Providence stations are on Wampanoag Road in East Providence, at the Salty Brine Broadcast Center, named after WPRO's longtime morning host. WPRO is powered at 5,000 watts, non-directional by day. But to protect other stations on 630 AM from interference, at night it uses a directional antenna with a two-tower array. The transmitter is co-located with the studios in East Providence. Programming Much of WPRO's weekday lineup is made up of local hosts. At night, nationally syndicated programs are heard: The Ben Shapiro Show, CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor and Red Eye Radio. Weekends mostly focus on specialty shows about money, health, pets, home repair, real estate and the law, some of which are paid brokered programming. The Ramsey Show with Dave Ramsey is heard on Sunday evenings. Some hours begin with an update from ABC News Radio. WPRO is an affiliate of the New England Patriots Radio Network. It carried Boston Red Sox baseball from 1986 to 2005. In 2006, Red Sox games moved to WEEI-FM (now WVEI-FM). History Early years The earliest ancestor to WPRO, WKBF, began broadcasting from Cranston, Rhode Island, on June 15, 1924. It was owned by Dutee Wilcox Flint and operating at 1050 kilocycles. In January 1925, the call sign was changed to WDWF, reflecting the owner's initials, and the station moved to 680 kHz. That December, Lincoln Studios began to share ownership of the station with Flint. Lincoln broadcast its programming under the call sign WLSI. WDWF and WLSI moved to 800 kHz by June 30, 1927. It shifted to 1090 kHz in October, to 1150 kHz in November, and to 1210 kHz in February 1928. By 1930, the studios for WDWF and WLSI were located in Providence. The Cherry & Webb era (September 1931–April 1959) Providence department store Cherry & Webb acquired WDWF and WLSI in September 1931, and merged the two stations under a single license with the call letters WPRO. The merged station formally relaunched on October 16. The purchase made Cherry & Webb the third department store in Providence to get into radio broadcasting, after the 1922 launches of Shepard Stores' WEAN (now WPRV, a sister station to WPRO) and The