WROC-TV
 
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Rochester, New York United States |
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| City | Rochester |
| Branding | News 8 |
| Slogan |
The Team You Can Trust |
| Channels |
Digital: 45 (UHF) Virtual: 8 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 8.1 CBS 8.2 Bounce TV 8.3 Laff 8.4 Escape |
| Affiliations | CBS (1989–present) |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | June 11, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning | ROChester |
| Sister station(s) |
WIVB-TV, WNLO, WSYR-TV, WWTI, WETM-TV, WUTR, WFXV, WPNY-LP, WIVT, WBGH-CD, WTEN, WXXA-TV, WFFF-TV, WVNY |
| Former callsigns | WHAM-TV (1949–1956) |
| Former channel number(s) | 6 (VHF analog, 1949–1954) 5 (VHF analog, 1954–1962) 8 (VHF analog, 1962–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
NBC (1949–1989) DuMont (secondary, 1949–1956) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 122.3 m |
| Facility ID | 73964 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°8′7″N 77°35′2″W / 43.13528°N 77.58389°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.rochesterfirst.com |
WROC-TV, virtual channel 8, is a CBS-affiliated television station based in Rochester, New York, USA, owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group. WROC-TV is the flagship of the company's Upstate New York stations and it has studios on Humboldt Street in Rochester. WROC-TV's transmitter is located on Pinnacle Hill in Brighton, New York.
WROC-TV is Rochester's oldest television station, signing on June 11, 1949, as WHAM-TV, an NBC affiliate on channel 6. It was owned originally by Stromberg-Carlson, a telephone equipment manufacturer, along with WHAM radio. The station was also affiliated with the now defunct DuMont Television Network. ([3])
WHAM-TV moved to channel 5 on July 24, 1954, as part of a revision of upstate New York's VHF allotments resulting from the Federal Communications Commission's Sixth Report and Order of 1952. However, WHAM-TV on channel 5 dealt with interference issues from CBLT, a CBC Television station from Toronto, after that station moved from its original channel 9 allocation to channel 6 in 1956. CBLT was replaced on channel 9 by CFTO-TV in 1960, and that channel relocation would later play an indirect role in the station's second frequency shift, eight years later.
Stromberg-Carlson merged with General Dynamics in 1955. General Dynamics was not interested in owning broadcast outlets, and put the WHAM-TV outlets on the market. In 1956, WHAM-TV was sold to Transcontinent Broadcasting, which owned WGR radio and WGR-TV in Buffalo. The new owners changed the call letters to the current WROC-TV. In 1961, Transcontinent sold the station to Veterans Broadcasting Company, which subsequently sold its half of what is today WHEC-TV (channel 10) to the Gannett Company, then based in Rochester.(The WHAM-TV callsign is now used on Rochester's ABC affiliate, channel 13, previously known as WOKR. Other than the shared callsign, that station is unrelated to the earlier WHAM-TV.)
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