WHAM-TV

Last updated

WHAM-TV
WHAM-TV logo.svg
WHAM-DT2 2024.svg
Channels
Branding
  • 13 WHAM ABC; 13 WHAM News
  • CW Rochester (DT2)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
Operator Sinclair Broadcast Group via LMA
WUHF
History
First air date
  • September 15, 1962;61 years ago (1962-09-15) (interim operation)
  • March 1, 1970;54 years ago (1970-03-01) (current incarnation)
Former call signs
  • WAAE-TV (CP, 1967–1970) [2] [3]
  • WOKR (interim operation 1962–1970, current incarnation 1970–2005) [1]
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 13 (VHF, 1962–2009)
  • Digital: 59 (UHF, 2002–2009), 13 (VHF, 2009–2019)
Call sign meaning
taken from former sister WHAM radio, pronounced like "wham"
Technical information [4]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 73371
ERP 30 kW
HAAT 155 m (509 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 43°8′7″N77°35′2″W / 43.13528°N 77.58389°W / 43.13528; -77.58389
Links
Public license information
Website 13wham.com
cwrochester.com

WHAM-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Rochester, New York, United States, affiliated with ABC and The CW. It is owned by Deerfield Media, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Fox affiliate WUHF (channel 31), for the provision of certain services. [5] The two stations share studios on West Henrietta Road (NY 15) in Henrietta (with a Rochester mailing address); WHAM-TV's transmitter is located on Pinnacle Hill on the border between Rochester and Brighton.

Contents

History

WOKR

The station signed on at 4 p.m. on September 15, 1962, as WOKR (for "We're OK Rochester"). It has always been an ABC affiliate, and is the only commercial station in the area that has never changed its affiliation. It originally operated from studios located on South Clinton Avenue in Rochester.

The station's original local owner, Channel 13 of Rochester, Inc., was composed of the Flower City Television Corporation, the Rochester Educational Television Association, the Genesee Valley Television Company, Star TV, Inc., Community Broadcasting, Inc., Heritage Radio and Television Broadcasting Company, Main Broadcasting Company, Federal Broadcasting Systems, Citizens Television Corporation, Rochester Broadcasting, Inc., and Rochester Telecasters, Inc., all of whom were equal shareholders [6] until March 1970, when Flower City bought out its partners. [7] Flower City sold the station to Post Corporation, a media conglomerate based in the Fox Cities region of Wisconsin, in 1977. George N. Gillett Jr. purchased the Post Corporation stations in 1984, transferring it into Gillett Holdings, Inc. Hughes Broadcasting Partners (Paul Hughes and Veronis, Suhler & Associates) purchased the station in 1991. Hughes then sold WOKR to Guy Gannett Communications in 1995.

WHAM-TV

Guy Gannett sold its stations to the Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1998; as Sinclair already owned WUHF, it then spun off WOKR to the Ackerley Group, with the acquisition closing in April 1999. The station came under common ownership with WHAM radio (1180 AM), in June 2002 after the Ackerley Group merged with Clear Channel Communications, WHAM radio's owner. Speculation immediately started about whether WOKR would take on the WHAM-TV calls, which had been used on what is now WROC-TV from 1949 until 1956. On January 10, 2005, at 1:42 a.m., channel 13 signed off-the-air for the last time as WOKR and returned to the air at 4:59 a.m. that same day as WHAM-TV. The WOKR call letters then moved to sister station WUCL in Remsen, New York (now Air 1 affiliate WAWR; in 2015, when the Remsen station dropped the calls, a radio station in Rochester picked up the WOKR calls and returned them to the market, swapping them with Canandaigua sister station WRSB in 2017). This was part of a strategy that Clear Channel would use the older callsign for an existing TV station they co-owned with the radio stations, the others were in San Antonio and Syracuse. [8] [9]

For many years, WOKR was one of three Rochester area stations offered on cable in the Ottawa–Gatineau and Eastern Ontario regions. The Rochester area stations were replaced with Detroit channels in September 2003 when the microwave relay system that provided these signals was discontinued. Until January 2009, WHAM-TV was also the ABC affiliate carried in several Central Ontario communities such as Belleville, Cobourg, and Lindsay. Buffalo ABC affiliate WKBW-TV replaced WHAM-TV in these communities.

On November 16, 2006, Clear Channel announced its intention to sell off all of its television stations after the company was bought by private equity firms. On April 20, 2007, the company entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Newport Television, a broadcasting holding company established by the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners. [10] The sale separated WHAM-TV from WHAM radio (which remains owned by Clear Channel, now iHeartMedia); however, the WHAM-TV call sign has been retained, and the two stations have continued a news partnership.

WHAM-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 13, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 59, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era VHF channel 13. [11]

On July 19, 2012, Newport Television announced the sale of 22 of its 27 stations to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Cox Media Group. [12] While most of WHAM-TV's New York State sisters were sold to Nexstar, a buyer for WHAM-TV was not announced until December 3, when Newport sold its non-license assets to Sinclair. [5] The license was sold to Deerfield Media for $54 million. Sinclair could not acquire the WHAM-TV license because of its continued ownership of WUHF (though it holds an option to do so [5] ); Nexstar could not purchase WHAM-TV because it already owned CBS affiliate WROC-TV. Rochester has only five full-power stations—not enough to legally permit a duopoly. WHAM-TV is also the only ABC affiliate owned by Newport Television that was not sold to Nexstar. With the announced sales in November of two additional stations to Nexstar and KMTR in Eugene, Oregon, to Fisher Communications (which was later sold itself to Sinclair in May 2013), WHAM-TV was the last Newport Television station without a buyer. On January 30, 2013, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted approval of the transaction, and it was consummated two days later. [13] [14]

On December 31, 2013, WUHF terminated its eight-year SSA with WROC-TV, and the station was re-located to WHAM-TV's studios. On January 1, 2014, WUHF introduced two WHAM-TV-produced newscasts, Good Day Rochester and a 10 p.m. newscast, which were both previously seen on its CW-affiliated subchannel WHAM-DT2. [15]

On July 28, 2021, the FCC issued a Forfeiture Order against Deerfield Media stemming from a lawsuit involving WHAM-TV. The lawsuit, filed by AT&T, alleged that Deerfield Media failed to negotiate for retransmission consent in good faith for WHAM-TV and other Sinclair-managed stations. Deerfield was ordered to pay a fine of $512,228 per station named in the lawsuit, including WHAM-TV. [16]

CW Rochester

WHAM-DT2, branded as CW Rochester (formerly CW WHAM), is the CW-affiliated second digital subchannel of WHAM-TV, broadcasting in high definition on channel 13.2.

History

The station began as a cable-only WB affiliate in 1996 on Time Warner Cable channel 26. The station was created by Lynette Baker, Time Warner Cable's local programming manager, as an entertainment programming replacement for the independent channel WGRC channel 9, which was in the process of being relaunched as 24-hour news channel R News. Baker approached The WB to launch a cable only affiliate as all the broadcast licenses in the Rochester market were allocated (this preceded the launch of The WB 100+ Station Group in 1998, which afforded cable providers the opportunity to launch cable-exclusive WB affiliates in smaller markets, displacing the superstation feed of Chicago's WGN-TV, which served as the national feed of The WB until then). The network distribution staff headed by Ken Werner and Hal Protter agreed to the cable license. In December 2000, the station became a joint venture of Time Warner Cable and The WB, named Rochester Television Ventures, LLC; it used the fictional call sign "WRWB-TV". The venture kept Lynette Baker as the Director of Operations and hired Tish Robinson as general manager and Steve Arvan as general sales manager. [17] [18]

Rochester Television Ventures choose Jay Advertising Inc. as marketing and advertising agency of record for the channel in November 2000. At that time, the channel was expected to go live in January 2001. Tish Robinson was the channel's initial general manager. [18] WRWB re-launched in December [17] on channel 26, only to be moved to channel 16 in late December 2000. [19]

Robinson planned for the channel to launch its own news programming in 2001, but revenue was below expectations, forcing its postponement until 2003. [20] After the September 11 attacks, the channel replaced an airing of the martial arts movie Mortal Kombat with the family comedy Dennis the Menace . [21] In May 2003, the channel began carrying Rochester Knighthawks National Lacrosse League games. [22]

In mid-2004, Rochester Television Ventures added marketing and communications services to improve the channel's revenues and to fill the void of the loss of smaller advertising agencies. By this time, the cable channel had scrapped plans for newscasts and carried The Daily Buzz morning news show with local weather updates from TWC's R News. [23]

On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that they would shut down and merge their UPN and WB networks to create a new network called The CW. WRWB's CW affiliation was officially announced in early March. [24] On November 13, 2006, WHAM-TV purchased WRWB-TV from Time Warner Cable. It renamed the service "CW WHAM" and began to simulcast on a new second digital subchannel of WHAM to offer over-the-air viewers access to CW programming. CW WHAM moved its operations and four of its staff from the downtown Rochester into WHAM-TV's facilities in Henrietta. [25] [26]

News operation

WHAM news truck WHAM news truck.jpg
WHAM news truck

WHAM-TV has led the news ratings in Rochester for most of the last four decades. The station's lead anchorman, Don Alhart, has been at the station since 1966, but announced on March 28, 2024, that he would retire on June 6. [27] As of 2007, portions of WHAM-TV's programming (including its weekday noon newscast) is streamed live on its website. On January 15, 2007, the station expanded its weekday morning show to include two hours (7 to 9 a.m.) on WHAM-DT2. On September 13, 2010, WHAM-TV became the first station in Rochester to broadcast newscasts in high definition. The station debuted an updated logo featuring the "circle 13" design (derivative of the circle 7 logo) similar to fellow ABC affiliate WTVG in Toledo, Ohio. The shows on WHAM-DT2 were included in the upgrade and currently can be seen in HD over-the-air or on Spectrum channels 16 and 1212. [28] [29] [30]

On January 1, 2011, WHAM-DT2 began to air a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast, 13 WHAM News on Rochester's CW. The newscast competed primarily with WUHF's WROC-produced newscast. [31] On January 1, 2014, after WUHF merged with WHAM, this newscast was moved to the station as 13 WHAM News on Fox Rochester. WUHF also added a morning show, Good Day Rochester, airing from 7 to 9 a.m. [32] In September 2014, the Good Day Rochester title was extended to WHAM's morning show, while WUHF also began to simulcast the 6:30 a.m. segment of the program.

WHAM-TV also provided sports and weather reports for WUTV in Buffalo from 2021 to 2023. [33] [34]

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WHAM-TV [1]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
13.1 720p 16:9 WHAM-HD ABC
13.2CW-WHAM The CW
13.3 480i 4:3 Grit-TV Charge!
31.2 480i4:3Antenna Antenna TV (WUHF-DT2)
31.3 Comet-T Comet (WUHF-DT3)
  Broadcast on behalf of another station

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WWHO</span> CW affiliate in Chillicothe, Ohio

WWHO is a television station licensed to Chillicothe, Ohio, United States, serving the Columbus area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Manhan Media, Inc., which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of ABC/MyNetworkTV/Fox affiliate WSYX, for the provision of certain services. Sinclair also operates TBD station WTTE under a separate LMA with Cunningham Broadcasting; however, Sinclair effectively owns WTTE as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The three stations share studios on Dublin Road in Grandview Heights ; WWHO's transmitter is located in the Franklinton section of Columbus.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WUHF</span> Fox affiliate in Rochester, New York

WUHF is a television station in Rochester, New York, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to dual ABC/CW affiliate WHAM-TV under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Deerfield Media. The two stations share studios on West Henrietta Road in Henrietta ; WUHF's transmitter is located on Pinnacle Hill on the border between Rochester and Brighton.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">KTTC</span> NBC/CW affiliate in Rochester, Minnesota

KTTC is a television station licensed to Rochester, Minnesota, United States, serving Southeast Minnesota and Northern Iowa as an affiliate of NBC and The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Television, which provides certain services to Fox affiliate KXLT-TV and Telemundo affiliate KXSH-LD under a shared services agreement (SSA) with SagamoreHill Broadcasting. The stations share studios in Rochester on Bandel Road Northwest along US 52, and also maintain an advertising sales office on Lakeview Drive in Clear Lake, Iowa, that serves Mason City. KTTC's transmitter is located south of Ostrander, Minnesota, near the Fillmore–Mower county line.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WPHL-TV</span> CW TV station in Philadelphia

WPHL-TV is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW Television Network. The station also maintains a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV. Owned and operated by The CW's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, WPHL-TV has studios in the Wynnefield section of West Philadelphia; it maintains a channel sharing agreement with Vineland, New Jersey–licensed Univision station WUVP-DT, under which the two stations transmit using WPHL-TV's spectrum from a tower in the Roxborough antenna farm.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">KIAH</span> CW TV station in Houston

KIAH is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW Television Network. Owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios adjacent to the Westpark Tollway on the southwest side of Houston, and its transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated Fort Bend County.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WKTV</span> NBC/CBS/CW affiliate in Utica, New York

WKTV is a television station in Utica, New York, United States, affiliated with NBC, CBS, and The CW Plus. Owned by Heartland Media, the station has studios on Smith Hill Road in Deerfield, and its transmitter is located in the Eatonville section of Fairfield.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WXSP-CD</span> MyNetworkTV affiliate in Grand Rapids, Michigan

WXSP-CD is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, serving West Michigan as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Grand Rapids–licensed NBC affiliate WOOD-TV and Battle Creek–licensed ABC affiliate WOTV. The stations share studios on College Avenue Southeast in the Heritage Hill section of Grand Rapids, while WXSP-CD's transmitter is located in Walker. Another repeater station licensed to Grand Rapids, WOLP-CD, utilizes and is co-located with WOOD-TV's transmitter southwest of Middleville.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WROC-TV</span> CBS affiliate in Rochester, New York

WROC-TV is a television station in Rochester, New York, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Nexstar Media Group. The station's studios are located on Humboldt Street in downtown Rochester, and its transmitter is located on Pinnacle Hill in Brighton, New York.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WCTX</span> MyNetworkTV affiliate in New Haven, Connecticut

WCTX is a television station licensed to New Haven, Connecticut, United States, serving the Hartford–New Haven market as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside ABC affiliate WTNH, also licensed to New Haven. WCTX and WTNH share studios on Elm Street in downtown New Haven; per a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WTNH's spectrum from a tower in Hamden, Connecticut.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WFFF-TV</span> Fox affiliate in Burlington, Vermont

WFFF-TV is a television station licensed to Burlington, Vermont, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Burlington, Vermont–Plattsburgh, New York market. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which provides certain services to ABC affiliate WVNY under a shared services agreement (SSA) with Mission Broadcasting. The two stations share studios on Mountain View Drive in Colchester, Vermont; WFFF-TV's transmitter is located on Vermont's highest peak, Mount Mansfield.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">KCWI-TV</span> CW affiliate in Ames, Iowa

KCWI-TV is a television station licensed to Ames, Iowa, United States, serving as the CW affiliate for the Des Moines area. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside ABC affiliate WOI-DT, also licensed to Ames. The two stations share studios on Westown Parkway in West Des Moines; KCWI-TV's transmitter is located in Alleman, Iowa.

WYZZ-TV is a television station licensed to Bloomington, Illinois, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Peoria area. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Nexstar Media Group, owner of CBS affiliate WMBD-TV, for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios on North University Street in Peoria, with a secondary studio and news bureau on East Lincoln Street in Bloomington. WYZZ-TV's transmitter is located near Congerville, a village of Montgomery Township, Woodford County.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WMAZ-TV</span> CBS/CW affiliate in Macon, Georgia

WMAZ-TV is a television station in Macon, Georgia, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. The station is owned by Tegna Inc., and maintains studios on Gray Highway on the northeast side of Macon; its transmitter is located on GA 87/US 23/129 ALT along the Twiggs–Bibb county line.

WISE-TV is a television station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, affiliated with The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Television alongside ABC/NBC/MyNetworkTV affiliate WPTA. The two stations share studios on Butler Road in Northwest Fort Wayne, where WISE-TV's transmitter is also located.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">KSHV-TV</span> MyNetworkTV affiliate in Shreveport, Louisiana

KSHV-TV is a television station in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Texarkana, Texas–licensed NBC affiliate KTAL-TV ; Nexstar also provides certain services to Fox affiliate KMSS-TV under a shared services agreement (SSA) with Mission Broadcasting. The stations share studios on North Market Street and Deer Park Road in northeast Shreveport, while KSHV-TV's transmitter is located southeast of Mooringsport.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WWTI</span> ABC/CW affiliate in Watertown, New York

WWTI is a television station in Watertown, New York, United States, affiliated with ABC and The CW Plus. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station has studios on Court Street in downtown Watertown, and its transmitter is located on Hayes Road in Denmark, New York.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WSYR-TV</span> ABC affiliate in Syracuse, New York

WSYR-TV is a television station in Syracuse, New York, United States, affiliated with ABC. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on Bridge Street in East Syracuse, and its transmitter is located on Sevier Road in Pompey, New York.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WXBU</span> TBD affiliate in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

WXBU is a television station licensed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Susquehanna Valley region as an affiliate of the digital multicast network TBD. The station is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings, a partner company of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. WXBU's advertising sales office is located on Butler Road in West Cornwall Township ; the station shares transmitter facilities with Sinclair-owned, Harrisburg-licensed CBS affiliate WHP-TV on a ridge north of Linglestown Road in Middle Paxton Township.

WFXV is a television station in Utica, New York, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Mohawk Valley. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside low-power MyNetworkTV affiliate WPNY-LD ; Nexstar also provides certain services to ABC affiliate WUTR under joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Mission Broadcasting. The stations share studios on Smith Hill Road in Deerfield, where WFXV's transmitter is also located.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WBGT-CD</span> Television station in Rochester, New York, United States

WBGT-CD is a low-power, Class A television station in Rochester, New York, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. Owned by Vision Communications, the station has studios on Buffalo Road in the town of Gates, and its transmitter is located on Pinnacle Hill. It can also be seen on Charter Spectrum channel 18.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Digital TV Market Listing for WHAM". RabbitEars.Info. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ "History Cards for WHAM-TV".
  3. ↑ "Section A TV Broadcasting Yearbook 1964" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WHAM-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  5. 1 2 3 Daneman, Matthiew (December 3, 2012). "WHAM-TV partially sold to Sinclair Broadcast". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle . Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Section A TV Broadcasting Yearbook 1965" (PDF). americanradiohistory.com.
  7. ↑ "20All-10" (PDF). americanradiohistory.com.
  8. ↑ "KMOL-TV changing call letters to WOAI". bizjournals.com. San Antonio Business Journal. July 2, 2002. Retrieved March 15, 2023.
  9. ↑ "News Channel 9 - WSYR Channel 9 Television". www.stationindex.com. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Clear Channel Agrees to Sell Television Station Group to Providence Equity Partners" (Press release). Clear Channel Communications. April 20, 2007. Archived from the original on April 25, 2007. Retrieved April 20, 2007.
  11. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  12. ↑ Newport Sells 22 Stations For $1 Billion, TVNewsCheck, July 19, 2012.
  13. ↑ "Auth Files" (PDF). licensing.fcc.gov.[ dead link ]
  14. ↑ "CDBS Print".
  15. ↑ "WROC out, 13WHAM in on Fox". Democrat & Chronicle. Gannett Company. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
  16. ↑ "Forfeiture Order" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. July 28, 2021. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  17. 1 2 "Warner Bros. to launch local affiliate". Rochester Business Journal. December 1, 2000. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  18. 1 2 Jacob, Smriti (November 22, 2000). "Jay named agency for new TV station". Rochester Business Journal. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  19. ↑ Jacob, Smriti (December 22, 2000). "Warner Bros. station gets new identity". Rochester Business Journal. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  20. ↑ Jacob, Smriti (January 4, 2002). "Economy forces station to slow expansion plans". Rochester Business Journal. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  21. ↑ Jacob, Smriti (September 21, 2001). "Ad industry shifts to reflect nation's serious tone". Rochester Business Journal. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  22. ↑ Jacob, Smriti (May 2, 2003). "Knighthawks game to air on WRWB". Rochester Business Journal. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  23. ↑ Jacob, Smriti (May 21, 2004). "WRWB to start offering new marketing services". Rochester Business Journal. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  24. ↑ "Dueling Networks Expand Station Lineups". TVNewsCheck.com. March 8, 2006. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  25. ↑ Gauthier, Andrew (December 28, 2010). "Rochester Duopoly WHAM Plans to Launch 10 p.m. Newscast on Digital Subchannel, CW-Affiliate". Ad Week. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  26. ↑ "WHAM buys local channel". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. November 14, 2006. p. 46. Retrieved January 4, 2018– via Newspapers.com.
  27. ↑ "Don Alhart retiring after 58 years at 13WHAM News". 13WHAM News. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
  28. ↑ 13WHAM readies for HD news, Democrat and Chronicle, July 11, 2010, retrieved July 16, 2010
  29. ↑ "WHAM to Debut Local HD Newscasts". September 8, 2010.
  30. ↑ "Rochester News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News". August 10, 2023.
  31. ↑ Miller, Mark K. (December 28, 2010). "WHAM To Launch News On CW Subchannel". TVNewsCheck.com. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  32. ↑ Daneman, Matthew. "WROC out, 13WHAM in on Fox". Democrat and Chronicle. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
  33. ↑ Pergament, Alan (June 22, 2021). "WUTV's new newscast will rely on news, weather and sports anchors outside of Buffalo". The Buffalo News. Retrieved September 19, 2021.
  34. ↑ Pergament, Alan (January 11, 2023). "WUTV's 10 p.m. newscast ending Jan. 27, eliminating four jobs in Buffalo". The Buffalo News . Retrieved March 28, 2024.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.