Rhode Island

Doctor Who aired in these cities, on these channels. (The Tom Baker stories made their US debut in this state (along with Massachusetts) in 1978.)

Providence

WTEV

Dr Who billing 28 August 1978

Channel 6 (CBS) (see also Massachusetts)

• The 16 August 1978 issue of Variety magazine (see United States--1978) lists "PROVIDENCE" as one of 17 cities to which the Tom Baker stories of Doctor Who had been sold. Presumably, this is Providence, Rhode Island. The only station serving that state known to have screened the series in 1978, was WTEV, a CBS-affiliated television station for Rhode Island and the South Coast of Massachusetts, licensed to New Bedford, Massachusetts, but headquartered in and operated from studios in downtown Providence, Rhode Island.
• The Tom Baker stories had their US debut on WTEV on 28 August 1978.

• In the March 1979 issue of Starlog magazine (issue 21; cover dated April), a reader from East Providence, Rhode Island, wrote to say she had become hooked on Doctor Who with the Tom Baker stories. Presumably she was viewing the series from one of the Massachusetts stations.