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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 ]
Two years after Hubbard bought WNYT, it won the distinction of being the first and only station outside of New York City to win a regional Emmy Award for best newscast in New York State. With the re-branding of the station's newscasts from News 13 to NewsChannel 13 in 1991, WNYT became the first station to use the "Live. Local.
Don Alhart (born May 15, 1944) is a former American television journalist who served the main news anchor and Associate News Director for WHAM-TV (Channel 13, ABC Affiliate) in Rochester, New York. Alhart began his professional television career at WOKR-TV (the predecessor of WHAM) in 1966 after graduating from Ithaca College .
Within its first year, the Rochester Bowling for Dollars had given away more than $100,000 in prizes to more than 2,300 contestants and received more than 825,000 Pin Pal cards, according to news ...
In 1923 the paper merged with the Rochester News Corporation's Rochester Evening Journal [14] to become Rochester Evening Journal and The Post Express and served the area from 1923 through 1937. [15] Rochester's evening paper for many years was the Times-Union , which merged operations with the Democrat and Chronicle in 1992, going defunct five ...
On May 29, 2006, ABC named Charles Gibson as sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight. Two months later, ABC renamed the program World News with Charles Gibson. In February 2007, the program achieved the number one spot in the Nielsen ratings for nightly news broadcasts, overtaking NBC Nightly News. This was ABC's first victory since the week ...
WHAM-TV, a television station (channel 13) licensed to serve Rochester, New York, which held the call sign WOKR from 1962 to 2005 Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about radio and/or television stations with the same/similar call signs or branding.
The channel launched on September 21, 1989 as a local origination channel using the fictional call sign "WGRC-TV" (standing for "Greater Rochester Cablevision," the area's major cable provider at the time); as such, it is the oldest channel among the Spectrum News networks and one of two that was not launched by Charter Communications or predecessor Time Warner Cable (the other being Spectrum ...