Rochester TV Archive

01/09/2024

Summer's over. Time to get out the Christmas decorations.

19/08/2024

20 Years Ago...

- RCSD deals with a 13.3 million dollar budget gap.
- Groundbreaking of "State of the art" Fast Ferry terminal in Toronto.
- Rain is in the forecast, but the future looks bright.

See more in this WHEC-TV Newscast from August 19, 2004.

Late newscast that aired during the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece._All content shared on this YouTube Channel is subject to copyright law and intended sole...

17/08/2024

It appears that WHEC-TV has a new logo. It has been spotted in a number of promos throughout the month. A new graphics package is set to launch soon with the updated logo. The last time the station changed its logo was in August 2004.

16/08/2024

Here is a throwback to 1999, long before Weather Labs and Triple Doppler Radars. Rich Caniglia was Live, Local, And Up To The Minute with his reports, but he wasn't much of a Hometown Weather Expert at this point. (I make jokes because I know he wouldn't care.) Congratulations on 25 years at WHEC TV, my friend!

06/08/2024

It was great to meet so many wonderful folks at this event last week. Thank you to all who attended! - Jack

12/07/2024

Gary's legacy will continue to live on in our community. His work with the Pirate Toy Fund has helped bring joy to the lives of so many children. My condolences go out to his family and so many friends.

‘Gary left an incredible impact on this community through his musical talents and his dedication to making children smile.’

05/07/2024

Rochester's very own Juke Box Hero Lou Gramm, performing "Urgent" at Deer Creek (Indiana) in 1993. The full show can be found at the link in the comments.

02/07/2024

Learning about Lou Gramm's life and career has had a profound impact on my own. I highly recommend reading his book, listening to his music, and do whatever you can to get to know who he is. I recently completed a 4K restoration on a favorite performance of mine from 1993. Enjoy!

_All content shared on this YouTube Channel is subject to copyright law and is intended solely for educational and research purposes._

11/06/2024

Take 10 minutes out of your day and listen to some of WROC's former news tunes. How many of these do you remember?

11/06/2024

Happy 75th Birthday to Rochester's first television station!

06/06/2024

I've never met Don Alhart in person, but I've known him my entire life. This screenshot is from the year I was born. I've read so many beautiful tributes to him and would like to join all of Don's faithful viewers in saying THANK YOU!

05/06/2024

PROGRAMMING ALERT: On the eve of his final broadcast, join us tonight at 7:00 for a one-hour special looking back at Don Alhart's legendary 58-year career at Channel 13.

https://13wham.com/news/local/13wham-to-air-special-look-back-at-don-alharts-career-retirement-58-years-rochester-tv-news-anchor-retiring #

05/06/2024

03/06/2024

13WHAM is providing a valuable service by sharing portions of their station's archives on YouTube. This playlist contains many of the videos published, arranged in chronological order by original airdate.

WHAM-TV is now sharing parts of their archive on YouTube. This playlist contains many of those videos.

06/04/2024

From WHEC-TV, here is a report on the annular solar eclipse in 1994.

May 10, 1994WHEC-TV 10 NBC Rochester_All content shared on this YouTube Channel is subject to copyright law and is intended solely for educational and resear...

29/03/2024

Congratulations to Don Alhart for his decades of service to Channel 13 and our community.

After 58 years, Don Alhart is retiring from 13WHAM News.

DETAILS: https://bit.ly/4aAdp9U

13/02/2024

WROC-TV used this image package from 1979 until the early '80s.

Although this sampler does not contain the Rochester version, you can find the lyrics below...

"Take a look at Rochester
From the Genesee
To our sparkling lakes
Taking pride in Rochester
We're family, we're neighbors, we get what it takes
Take a look with TV-8 now
Take a look with TV-8 now
Take a look!"

This package was used by WOC-TV from ‘81-‘85.

12/02/2024

WROC-TV celebrates 75 years on June 11.

02/11/2023

Did you know that Jack Buck delivered the weather report to Rochesterians in 1953? The next year, Buck moved to St. Louis and called the Cardinals games alongside Joe Garagiola and Harry Caray.

01/11/2023

Congratulations to WHEC TV for 70 years of broadcasting in Rochester. It was on this date in 1953 when the station first went on the air.

01/11/2023

31/10/2023

22 years later, Rich Caniglia is still wearing the same tie!

20/10/2023

I apologize for not being very active with this page in recent times. I'm just a regular guy who works a full-time job (not in media) and run this page as an outlet to share my hobby of discovering old footage of Rochester TV past. A family member of mine was recently critically injured in a crash and I have not had the focus or ambition to even open up my laptop. Rest assured that Rochester TV Archive is not going anywhere though. I may be on a hiatus, but as soon as I am able to, I hope to return to sharing more classic TV content. Thank you for your understanding. - Jack

26/09/2023

Congratulations to John Kucko, who announced he is leaving his part-time anchoring duties at WROC-TV to focus full-time on his digital media ventures.

Life Update: After 36 years working in television—30 in sports, 6 as a digital creator/anchor—at long last I’ve decided to leave the anchor desk and studio work at my beloved WROC-TV (CBS) in Rochester, where I have worked the last 32 years. This will be my last week in the building. Made my on-air debut here on September 25, 1991 doing a Buffalo Bills story during their fun Super Bowl years (top image). I am NOT retiring, rather transitioning my efforts to focus entirely on my digital work. For all of my professional life, I have been beyond blessed to work in positions that I truly enjoyed, with scores of talented colleagues and peers. I actually LOVED coming to work nearly every single day for those 36 years. I’ve been part-time for the last seven years, often shooting much of the day, then heading to the studio to anchor the little 4pm broadcast at Channel 8 here. Over the last year I’ve done the show with our oldest daughter, Natalie, while our youngest, Caroline, entered the broadcast realm on a much different scale, working in communications at SiriusXM in New York City for their music entertainment division. Now I’ll be able to shoot even more often, anywhere I want, without the deadline of having to be back at the station every day for the afternoon TV broadcast. AND, I will still somewhat remain on the air by sending in my camera segments on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s beginning next week. Channel 8 has been very good to me, in turn I was very loyal to them. I remained as countless colleagues of mine came and went through the years—too many to count. It was Scott Benjamin, our News Director in 1991, who hired me—I’ll always be grateful for the opportunity he gave me. In 2016 Tim Busch, President of the company, convinced me to stay on as a part-timer when I informed him I wanted to leave sports (unthinkable at the time) and pursue my new passion of digital content creator. I agreed to anchor the 4pm news broadcast for one year—it became seven years. Grateful to my General Manager’s in these last few years, Louis Gattozzi and later Wendy Bello, who allowed me the flexibility to shoot each day, often on my own time and always with my own equipment, and then come in and do the show. Channel 8 has been one of the few stations in America allowing for such a position, having an anchor actually go out daily into every sector of the market and beyond and show POSITIVE content, mostly the nature in our midst—a few trains, too😂. I do believe viewers enjoy this kind of content, a welcome alternative to the constant barrage of modern day realities. Life is short, I will now have the flexibility to go out each day and stay out gathering content as long as I want, without having to be at a studio to do a show. I plan on hosting more trips overseas that I will promote here on the page. For those in the Rochester market who supported my television work these last few decades, I thank you! For those who follow me here—I’ll continue to do what I do, only more of it and, as always, am thankful for your support. And for my wife, Charla, who endured much with both of my interests (sports, then digital), she held down the fort often and I’m most grateful. Lastly, I had exceptional training in those formative years as a college student at Oswego State, including internships with two dynamic sports guys in Binghamton, Kurt Gregory followed by Mike Catalana. I learned much from both of them and ultimately followed Mike to Rochester, where my life changed in many ways. I will always be grateful for my time at WROC-TV and am honored to have anchored there, in one form or another, longer than anyone in the 75 year history of the place. You’ll just have to trust me when I say—there is NO workplace in America quite like it. I’ll continue to take the experiences I’ve gained as a broadcaster and apply them here on the page with my digital work.

06/04/2023

Today marks 20 years since we lost David Bloom. He collapsed after suffering a pulmonary embolism while covering the war in Iraq.

Tom Brokaw reports the death of NBC's David Bloom, who suffered from a pulmonary embolism while embedded with troops in Iraq._Video quality is suboptimal due...

06/04/2023

We've got a full schedule of videos premiering this morning on YouTube. At 8AM, the announcement of WHEC-TV joining the NBC network, from this date in 1989.

On this day in 1989, WHEC-TV announced they were dropping CBS and becoming an NBC affiliate. The first few minutes of the news broadcast are seen here._This ...

13/03/2023

The Blizzard of '93, also known as the "Storm of the Century" took place 30 years ago. Here are a couple of reports from WHEC and NBC News.

The Blizzard of '93, also known as The Storm of the Century, took place from March 12 - 14, 1993. This video contains a partial weathercast from WHEC-TV, and...

03/03/2023

32 years ago, the Rochester area was crippled by a devastating ice storm. Here is WHEC-TV's recap of the event, which aired as a one-hour special, a few days after the storm.

For the best viewing experience, please adjust the video quality to "720p60".

Air date: March 11, 1991.On March 3-4, 1991, Rochester, NY and the surrounding areas experienced a significant ice storm that resulted in catastrophic damage...

10/01/2023

Former WHEC News Director Adam P. Bradshaw passed away over the weekend. Although I did not know him personally, Adam was always very responsive to emails and willing to answer any questions I had back when I was operating my blog "Rochester, NY News." I was just a teenager in high school and was very curious about the TV industry. My condolences go out to his family, friends, and colleagues.

Just found out my first News Director at WHEC TV passed away today. I’m so thankful Adam Bradshaw took a chance on this Midwest girl. One day after anchoring a noon show, he taught me how to say Zweigles correctly. He said, you won’t last long pronouncing it ZWEEGLES. I’ve pronounced it right ever since. In this crazy biz, your colleagues are your FAMILY. We lost a good one today. Until we meet again, APB!! ❤️🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽

06/12/2022

Sad news to pass along. Brad Smith was 62.

Brad Smith, a former weekend host/producer and reporter at WXXI, who also worked at a number of area radio and TV stations over the years, died Nov. 28, at the age of 62.