WUHF

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WUHF is a broadcast television station in Rochester, New York, affiliated with the Fox network. It broadcasts its analog signal on channel 31 and its digital signal on 28, and is seen on cable channel 7. Its transmitter is located on Pinnacle Hill in Brighton, New York. It is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Prior to the 1990s, the station identified on-air primarily as FOX31. Today, it is better known as Fox Rochester (although it adopted a "Fox 31" logo in 2003). The station took to the air for the very first time on May 15, 1980 as an independent station, and joined the Fox network in 1987. At one point, it was owned by Malrite Communications and later on in time by Act III Broadcasting.

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, although it had been carried by the cable systems in Belleville, Ontario and other communities on the north shore of Lake Ontario since the 1980s.

WUHF has been carried on satellite systems since 2001, and it is currently the only Rochester-based TV station seen in Canada on StarChoice.

WUHF's digital signal (Channel 28) signed onto the air in 2004 under a Special Temporary Authority.

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Newscast

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WUHF had produced its own 10pm local newscast since 1998. In 2003, WUHF converted its newscast to Sinclair's News Central format, which consisted of national and international news segments, weather and sports reports produced at News Central's headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland. The local news operation at WUHF was significantly sized down as a result.

In August 2005, the Sinclair Broadcast Group entered into a Local Service Agreement with Nexstar Broadcasting, the owners of Rochester's CBS affiliate WROC-TV Channel 8. The News Central format was abandoned, and news broadcasts on WUHF ceased on September 1, 2005. The remainder of WUHF's news operation was laid off in this move. The 10pm newscast returned to air on November 1 under the title "First at 10", and currently features WROC's on-air staff.

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