CW-WHAM
Rochester, New York
Branding	CW-WHAM
Channels	Analog: 16 (Time Warner Cable) Digital: 59 (UHF, WHAM-DT 13.2) 1016 (Time Warner Cable HDTV)
Affiliations	The CW
Owner	Newport Television (Central New York News, Inc.)
Founded	2000
Former callsigns	WRWB-TV (2000-06) Rochester's CW (Sep.-Nov. 2006)
Former affiliations	The WB (2000-2006)
Website	http://www.cwrochester.com/

CW-WHAM is the branding of a digital television station operating out of Rochester, New York. The station, owned by Newport Television, carries programming from The CW Television Network. The station is seen on the DT2 subchannel of Rochester's ABC affiliate WHAM-TV, as well as on channel 16 on most basic cable systems in the Rochester area and a digital/HDTV feed on channel 1016 for digital subscribers.

Contents 1 History 2 Newscast 3 References 4 External links

[edit] History

The station was originally launched in 2000 as WRWB, a cable-only affiliate of The WB provided by Time Warner Cable. This lasted until September 17, 2006, when that network closed as part of The CW's formation. WRWB's CW affiliation was officially announced on March 7, 2006. [1] Time Warner owns The CW along with CBS Corporation. With the switch, the station's on-air identity changed from Rochester's WB16 to Rochester's CW (with a TV16 logo used to denote its cable channel) and the WRWB calls were laid aside.

On November 13, 2006, WHAM-TV took over Rochester's CW from Time Warner Cable, renamed the station CW-WHAM and added a new digital feed on WHAM's 13.2 subchannel. The station also moved its operations to the WHAM-TV facilities on West Henrietta Road. However, the station continues to air on Time Warner Cable's Channels 16 & 301 and in HD on Channel 1016.

On November 16, 2006, not long after it took over CW-WHAM, Clear Channel announced its intention to sell off all of its television stations, including CW-WHAM's parent station WHAM-TV, after the company was bought by private equity firms.

On January 15, 2007, WHAM-TV began producing a four-hour, 5-9 AM morning newscast for CW-WHAM. WHAM itself simulcasts the first two hours of that newscast.

On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Providence Equity Partners.[2] WHAM's operation of CW-WHAM remained unchanged after the sale was finalized. Soon after the announcement, the station began to refer to itself as "CW 16" or "CW Rochester", as opposed to "CW-WHAM".

On September 8, 2007, CW-WHAM begun airing Next Era Wrestling's Superstars of Wrestling, a popular wrestling program filmed and produced locally for the Rochester audience. The show was canceled after 8 episodes.

[edit] Newscast

• 13 WHAM News This Morning - 5:00 to 7:00 a.m. (5:00 to 9:00 a.m. on CW-WHAM)

Doug Emblidge, Norma Holland, Holly Maynard, Evan Dawson, Marty Snyder (weather)

[edit] References

• Fybush, Scott. "And Now...The CW?". NorthEast Radio Watch. fybush.com. http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2006/060130/nerw.html. Retrieved 2006-02-20. 
• Fybush, Scott. "Dominoes Tumble on Philly FM Dial". NorthEast Radio Watch. fybush.com. http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2006/060814/nerw.html. Retrieved 2006-08-17. 

[edit] External links

• cwrochester.com
• WHAM homepage
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WHAM-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WHAM-TV

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