WJAR (channel 10) is a television station in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, affiliated with NBC.

It was owned by The Outlet Company, a department store chain headquartered in Providence, along with WJAR radio (920 AM, now WHJJ; and 95.5 FM, now occupied by WLVO).

[3] In 1954, WJAR-TV received national attention for its coverage of Hurricane Carol; newsreel films shot by WJAR cameramen of the storm and its aftermath not only appeared on the station, but also fed to CBS and NBC for use on their evening news programs.

For many years in the 1970s, WJAR-TV broadcast men's basketball games of Providence College and the University of Rhode Island, with Chris Clark calling play-by-play.

A year earlier, the station moved its studios from the Outlet Building to a three-story modern production facility next door.

In April 1993, the station's studios were moved to their current location in an industrial area of Cranston just south of Providence.

Three years later, Outlet Communications merged with NBC, making WJAR the second network-owned station in the market (CBS owned WPRI-TV for parts of 1995 and 1996 before it was forced to sell the station to Clear Channel Communications after CBS and Westinghouse merged due to a significant signal overlap with WBZ-TV).

In April 1997, WJAR began to operate WB affiliate WLWC (which was owned by Fant Broadcasting) under a local marketing agreement (LMA).

WJAR was one of four NBC O&Os in smaller markets that were put up for sale on January 9, 2006, along with stations in Columbus, Birmingham, Alabama, and Raleigh, North Carolina.

The stylized "10" was initially retained after the purchase, but with the NBC peacock attached to the right-hand side and the call letters removed.

A modified version, used on newscasts starting in 2007, was designed and arranged similarly to other Media General station logos.

Because LIN already owned CBS affiliate WPRI and operated Fox affiliate WNAC-TV, and the two stations rank among the four highest-rated stations in the Providence market in total day viewership, the companies were required to sell either WJAR or WPRI-TV;[4][5][6] on August 20, 2014, Media General announced that it would keep WPRI and the LMA with WNAC and sell WJAR, along with WLUK-TV and WCWF in Green Bay and WTGS in Savannah, Georgia, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group in exchange for KXRM-TV and KXTU-LD in Colorado Springs, WHTM in Harrisburg (which Sinclair, on behalf of Allbritton is planning on to divest) and WTTA in Tampa Bay.

The first began in April 1997 (entitled TV 28 News at 10) and was seen weeknights on WLWC in competition to the WPRI-produced show on Fox affiliate WNAC-TV.

WLNE occasionally aired news at that time when it operated Cox channel 5 as NewsChannel 5, primarily when sports preempted WNAC's newscast.

Other notable alumni include CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour and ESPN anchor Steve Berthiaume.

In 2011, the station won its third national Murrow in a row, this time in the "Breaking News" category for its coverage of recent historic flooding.

On September 6, 2022, WJAR introduced an hour-long 4 p.m. newscast, known as NBC 10 News at 4:00, to act as a replacement for the recently canceled Ellen DeGeneres Show.

OSN aired rebroadcasts of WJAR's non-network and syndicated programming, including its newscasts, lifestyle show Studio 10, Special Olympics R.I. and 10 News Conference.

Prior to 2017, it also aired Cox Sports programming, including live local high school and collegiate sports events with teams featured on OSN including the Pawtucket Red Sox, Providence Friars, Rhode Island Rams, and the Rhode Island Interscholastic League.