High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! WJAR is the NBC-affiliated television station for the state of Rhode Island and Bristol County, Massachusetts licensed to Providence. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 51 from a transmitter in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Owned by Media General, the station shares studios on Kenney Drive in Cranston with ZGS Communications-owned Telemundo affiliate WRIW-CA and Ion Television O&O affiliate WPXQ-TV. Syndicated programming on WJAR includes: Extra, Rachael Ray, and Ellen.