Apr 14, 2006 · Maybe Dave McKinley can accomplish that feat, but when you have a Channel 8 reporter refer to Benjamin Franklin as a U.S. president, that kind of gives you an idea of the type of journalists currently working at 8. WROC's problem isn't the staff, its the group of current and former managers and owners that has kept that station in the ratings ...

May 4, 2011 · Nexstar is weird when it comes to branding. They'll use channel numbers for stations that are seen pretty much universally on one number, like WROC-TV 8 here in Rochester, but they go with call letters for others, like WBRE and WYOU in Scranton or WUTR/WFXV in Utica, that are on a hodgepodge of channel numbers depending on the cable …

Jul 8, 2008 · Old cars and AM radio are a great combination. Somehow they hit the same emotional section of the radio-person brain. Yep, you've got it Bob1370 - the straight-8 128 hp Commodore with splash lubrication. Also has OD and selective freewheeling - about 60% of an automatic transmission in actual...

May 31, 2007 · According to another poster, who appears to know the goings-on at WROC TV, is reporting that morning host Melanie Barnas was shown the front door.

Aug 10, 2007 · According to several staff members morale at the station is lower than a snake's belly after hearing that Nexstar won't be putting Channel 8 up for sale. These people had hoped that a new owner would come in and stop the internal bleeding; which isn't going to happen now. One person, who is well...

Aug 5, 2009 · I'd like to see the Rochester stations put something on their sub channels that is entertaining. 13 does a pretty good job with the CW but that is all I have been able to find. 10 has that weather channel (or did). How about a retro channel? Maybe 8, 10 or 31 should pick up WBGT for My TV.

Apr 4, 1986 · from Ithaca Journal via Newspapers.com Ithaca, Dryden 2 WIXT-ABC Syracuse 3 WSTM-NBC Syracuse 4 WCNY-PBS Syracuse 5 WTVH-CBS Syracuse 6 WENY-ABC Elmira 7 Weather Channel 8 WSKG-PBS Binghamton 9 WOR New York 10 WICZ-NBC Binghamton 11 WPIX New York 12 WBNG-CBS Binghamton 13 TLC/CPN 14 HBO 15...

Apr 18, 2006 · You sir have managed to do what many thought impossible; take Channel 8 deeper into the depths of mediocrity. No one can argue that you have the authority, and some may say the right, to hire people of your own choosing. Yet when one looks at the talent that has departed Channel 8 over the past...

May 1, 2009 · The last information I had on John Sayre - ex-WBBF GM under LIN until about 1971 and founder/part-owner of WAXC - is that he passed away. AFAIK he never recovered from the financial disaster which followed the collapse of WAXC in the mid- to late 70s. Sherlock may be able to fill in more on...

Jul 31, 2007 · Joylynn Whitfield is no longer working at Channel 8. Her last day was last Friday. Would someone PLEASE stop the bleeding???