WROC-TV
Headquarters on Humboldt Street in Rochester, New York | |
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| Branding | News 8 |
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| History | |
First air date | June 11, 1949 |
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Call sign meaning | "Rochester", also an airport code |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 73964 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 123.2 m (404 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°8′8.3″N 77°35′1.3″W / 43.135639°N 77.583694°W |
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| Website | www |
WROC-TV (channel 8) is a television station in Rochester, New York, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Nexstar Media Group. The station's studios are located on Humboldt Street in downtown Rochester, and its transmitter is located on Pinnacle Hill in Brighton, New York.
Prior to 2021, the WROC studios hosted the master control operations of Nexstar's "virtual triopoly" in the Quad Cities television market of southeastern Iowa and west-central Illinois, which includes fellow CBS affiliate WHBF-TV, CW owned-and-operated station KGCW, and Fox-affiliated LMA partner KLJB.