WROC-TV

==WHAM-TV==
===1949–1954===
Originally signed on the air on June 11, 1949, as WHAM-TV, an NBC affiliate on VHF channel 6 and was owned originally by Stromberg-Carlson, a telephone equipment manufacturer, along with WHAM radio.
===1954–1956===
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 (FCC)'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 VHF 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.
==WROC-TV==
===1956–1962===
Stromberg-Carlson merged with General Dynamics in 1955. General Dynamics was not interested in owning broadcast outlets and put the WHAM radio and television 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 the Veterans Broadcasting Company, which subsequently sold its half of what is today WHEC-TV (channel 10) to the Gannett Company, then-based in Rochester (now in McLean, Virginia). The WHAM-TV call sign is currently used by channel 13 in Rochester (affiliated with ABC) since 2005.
===1962–1967===
On September 8, 1962, the station swapped the channel number with WHEN-TV (today WTVH) in Syracuse in order to provide more VHF channels in Upstate New York by the FCC. Later in February 1965, Veterans Broadcasting was merged into Rust Craft Broadcasting.
===1967–1971===
===1971–1974===
===1974–1978===
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===1978–1986===
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The "ei8ht" logo used here appears to be influenced by the logo used by WJW from 1966-77 (and briefly revived in modified version from 1995–1996). Rust Craft sold its television unit to Ziff Davis in 1979. WROC-TV and sister stations in Saginaw, Michigan, Augusta, Georgia and Steubenville, Ohio were spun-off to Television Station Partners LP, a group composed of Ziff Davis's broadcast executives, in 1983.
===1986–1996===
====1986–1989====
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====1989–1990====
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On August 13, 1989, after 40 years with NBC (which was intolerant of preemptions, including channel 8's poor performance), channel 8 swapped network affiliations with WHEC-TV and became a CBS affiliate.
====1990–1991====
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====1991–1994====
====1994–1996====
Television Station Partners sold channel 8, along with the Saginaw and Steubenville outlets, to Smith Broadcasting in 1996.
===1996–2000===
Current owner Nexstar Media Group (then-known as Nexstar Broadcasting Group) purchased channel 8 in 1999.
===2000–2009===
===2009–present===
====2009–2012====
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====2012–present====
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Category:Television stations in the United States
Category:CBS network affiliates
Category:Nexstar Media Group
Category:Rochester, New York
Category:New York
Category:Former NBC network affiliates
Category:Television stations formerly owned by Ziff Davis
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1949
Category:Television Station Partners, Ltd.
Category:Television stations formerly owned by Rust Craft Broadcasting