please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . january 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message wuhf rochester new york united states city rochester new york branding fox rochester general 13 wham news on fox rochester newscasts slogan your breaking news & weather authority channels digital 28 uhf virtual 31 psip subchannels 31.1 fox 31.2 antenna tv 31.3 comet tv affiliations fox 1986 present owner sinclair broadcast group wuhf licensee llc first air date january 27 1980 ; 36 years ago 1980 01 27 call letters meaning ultra high frequency sister station s wham tv wutv wnyo tv wstm tv wstq lp wrgb wcwn former channel number s analog 31 1980 2009 former affiliations independent 1980 1986 transmitter power 320 kw height 161 m facility id 413 transmitter coordinates 43 8 5 n 77 35 7 w 43.13472 n 77.58528 w 43.13472 ; 77.58528 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website foxrochester.com wuhf is the fox affiliated television station for rochester new york . it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on uhf channel 28 hence the call letters from a transmitter on pinnacle hill on the border between rochester and brighton . the station can also be seen on time warner cable channels 7 and 1206 in standard definition and high definition . owned by the sinclair broadcast group the station is a sister to abc affiliate wham tv owned by deerfield media and operated by sinclair under a shared services agreement . they both share studios on west henrietta road ny 15 in henrietta though the mailing address says rochester . from 2005 to 2013 the station was operated by nexstar broadcasting group and co located with cbs affiliate wroc tv . contents 1 history 1.1 cable carriage 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 newscasts 3.1 notable current on air staff 3.2 notable former on air staff 4 references 5 external links history edit wuhf began operations on january 27 1980 as a general entertainment independent station running cartoons sitcoms classic and recent movies drama shows and religious shows . the station was owned by malrite and the general manager was jerry carr who was the former the weather outside personality . apparently by sheer coincidence the station re used a call sign which was previously used by a different and unrelated station which operated on the same channel 31 albeit in new york city . the latter station had only used the wuhf calls for its first year of experimental operation 1961 62 ; it currently uses the call sign wpxn tv . in 1983 former underground cartoonist brian bram produced and hosted all night live a program aired live from midnight to 7 in the morning fridays and saturdays . bram s show was a showcase for regional bands including personal effects cousin al and the relatives and the degrads . on october 6 1986 wuhf became a charter affiliate of fox for rochester and was known on air as fox 31 . most of the religious shows were gone by then . in 1989 act iii broadcasting bought the station from malrite communications group . in a group deal abry would become the owner in 1994 . by 1996 it was controlled by sinclair and was eventually sold to that company . in the 1990s classic sitcoms movies and drama shows made way for talk reality and court shows . cartoons ended the station s weekday airings at the end of 2001 when fox closed its weekday kids block nationwide . in 1999 the station became known on air as fox rochester although it adopted a fox 31 logo in from 1999 to 2005 . its digital signal signed on the air in 2004 under a special temporary authority from the federal communications commission fcc . in 2006 wuhf added the tube digital music video channel on a new second digital subchannel . this continued until the service went out of business in 2007 . in august 2005 the sinclair broadcast group entered into a shared services agreement with nexstar broadcasting group owner of cbs affiliate wroc tv . sinclair agreed to be the subordinate entity allowing nexstar to control programming for wuhf . the station then moved from its studios on east avenue ny 96 in rochester to wroc tv s facilities . 1 on may 15 2012 sinclair broadcast group and fox agreed to a five year extension to the network s affiliation agreement with sinclair s 19 fox stations including wuhf allowing them to continue carrying the network s programming through 2017 . 2 on december 3 2012 sinclair announced it would acquire the non fcc assets of abc affiliate wham tv from newport television with the license and other fcc assets being transferred to deerfield media . on december 31 2013 wuhf terminated its eight year ssa with wroc tv and the station was re located into the henrietta studios of wham tv . on january 1 2014 wuhf introduced two wham tv produced newscasts good day rochester and a new 10 p.m. newscast . both were previously seen on wham dt2 the cw sub channel . 3 cable carriage edit in 1994 several cable systems in canada started carrying wuhf via the cancom communications satellite in out of market areas where fox was not otherwise available . however it had been carried on cable in belleville ontario and other communities on the north shore of lake ontario since the 1980s . it was formerly carried by eastlink in sd only and on bell aliant fibreop tv in both sd and hd for viewers in atlantic canada until late 2012 january 30 2013 in eastlink s case when it was replaced with wfxt the fox o & o boston station and now owned by cox media group . the station is also carried in the thousand islands region of the north country in the town of hammond via citizens cable tv as well as in the provinces of manitoba and newfoundland and labrador . wuhf has been carried on satellite systems since 1996 and it is currently the only rochester based television station seen in canada on the shaw direct satellite provider . 4 cf cable in western montreal suburbs used to carry the station in 1995 but replaced it with sister station wutv from buffalo the following year . that station was carried on vid otron for cable systems outside the west island . it was also the first fox station carried on montreal cable . however the northern suburbs of that city particularly st. jerome still carry the station even though in mont tremblant wfff tv along with other burlington vermont plattsburgh new york stations are seen there instead . sinclair was re negotiating for carriage of wuhf on the local time warner cable system in rochester . the previous agreement expired on december 31 2010 . 5 an updated retransmission agreement was reached in february 2011 . had this not happened wuhf could have pulled its signal from time warner cable . digital television edit digital channels edit the station s digital signal is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 6 31.1 720p 16 9 wuhf dt main wuhf programming fox 31.2 480i 4 3 antenna tv 31.3 comet analog to digital conversion edit wuhf discontinued regular programming on its analog signal over uhf channel 31 on february 17 2009 the original target date in which full power television in the united states were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate like most sinclair stations and was replaced by a nightlight loop that ran until march 3 . the station s digital signal remained on its pre transition uhf channel 28 . 7 through the use of psip digital television receivers display the station s virtual channel as its former uhf analog channel 31 . newscasts edit in 1997 wuhf established its own news department and aired a nightly prime time newscast known as the ten o clock news along with a sunday night sports highlight show . in 2003 the operation was converted to sinclair s controversial news central format which consisted of national and international news as well as weather and sports segments produced at sinclair s headquarters on beaver dam road in hunt valley maryland . the local news operation at wuhf was significantly sized down as a result . it also aired the point a one minute conservative political commentary that was also controversial and a requirement of all sinclair owned stations with newscasts until the series was discontinued in december 2006 . after becoming operated by nexstar the news central format was abandoned and broadcasts on wuhf ceased . two anchors a producer and a photographer were added to wroc tv s news staff . the remainder of its personnel was laid off in this move . on september 1 2005 a nightly half hour prime time show known as fox first at 10 produced by wroc tv began airing on this station . it aired from a secondary set from that station s facilities . eventually this expanded to 45 minutes followed by a fifteen minute sports highlight program known as sports extra . on september 4 2012 wroc tv became the second rochester area station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition . the 10 p.m. newscast on wuhf was included in the upgrade . on december 30 2013 wroc tv produced its final newscast on wuhf . wham tv took over wuhf s newscasts on january 1 2014 ; as a result the 10 p.m. newscast became 13 wham news at 10 on fox rochester and the station began airing a morning newscast from 7 9 a.m. good day rochester ; both newscasts were effectively relocated from wham dt2 . 8 on september 2014 13 wham news this morning 4 30 7 00 has since been renamed good day rochester and wuhf now simulcasts the last half hour 6 30 a.m. of the program . notable current on air staff edit mike catalana sports director ; weeknights notable former on air staff edit jenna wolfe sports anchor 1998 1999 ; now with nbc s today references edit http web.archive.org web 20001019032050 http foxrochester.com sinclair reups with fox gets wutb option tvnewscheck may 15 2012 . wroc out 13wham in on fox . democratic & chronicle . gannett company . retrieved 27 december 2013 . http www.shaw.ca television programming hd channels http www.sbgi.net template time warner rabbitears tv query for wuhf dtv tentative channel designations for the first and the second rounds pdf . retrieved 2012 03 24 . wroc out 13wham in on fox . democrat & chronicle 7 october 2013 retrieved 8 october 2013 external links edit official website query the fcc s tv station database for wuhf biafn s media web database information on wuhf tv v t e television stations viewable in the greater rochester new york area reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television local stations wgce cd 6.1 heartland wroc tv 8.1 cbs 8.2 bounce tv 8.3 laff 8.4 escape whec tv 10.1 nbc 10.2 metv 10.3 wx wham tv 13.1 abc 13.2 cw 13.3 grit wxxi tv 21.1 pbs 21.2 world 21.3 create wuhf 31.1 fox 31.2 antenna tv 31.3 comet whsh lp 36.1 blank wnib ld 42.1 tct 42.2 tct hd 42.3 tct family wbgt cd 46.1 mntv 46.2 this tv 46.3 tuff tv 46.4 heartland 46.5 mrtv 46.6 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