YNN Rochester
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| Owned by | Time Warner Cable |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Slogan | Your News Now |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Western New York |
| Headquarters | Rochester, New York |
| Formerly called | WGRC (1990-1992), GRC9News (1992), R News (1993-2009) |
| Website | http://rochester.ynn.com |
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| Time Warner Cable | Channel 9 / 14 (SD; analog) Channel 109 / 110 (SD; digital) Channel 1008 or 1009 (HD) Channel 108 / 728: YNN On Demand |
YNN Rochester is a 24-hour local cable news television channel based in Rochester, New York, and seen in that area and the nearby Genesee River and Finger Lakes regions. The Your News Now affiliate can be found on Time Warner Cable Channel 9 and available elsewhere on Channel 14.
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[edit] History
The channel debuted on Channel 5 in 1990 as "WGRC" (Greater Rochester Cablevision), making it by far the oldest channel in Time Warner's YNN network. In 1992, the station changed to Channel 9 and labeled itself as "GRC9News". Later, after Time Warner acquired cable franchise rights to the area, it was changed to just "R News". In 2005, some of the station's operations were merged with News 10 Now, a sister station in Syracuse, New York, and Capital News 9, a sister station in Albany, New York. Like its sister stations in Albany and Buffalo, it airs on channel 9.
On August 4, 2009 at 5 a.m., R News became YNN Rochester (YNN standing for "Your News Now"), co-branding the station with its new Buffalo sister station YNN Buffalo. This branding was later expanded to the Syracuse (now YNN Central New York) and Albany (now YNN Capital Region) stations.
YNN Rochester, YNN Central New York, YNN Buffalo and YNN Capital Region also share news content with NY1, the Time Warner Cable local cable news television channel in New York City.
[edit] News team
[edit] Current on-air staff[1][2]
Anchors
- Virginia Butler - weekday mornings and afternoons; also reporter
- Cristina Domingues - weekday evenings and overnight loop; also reporter
- Jon Dougherty - weekend mornings
- Katie Morse - weekend afternoons
- Scott Patterson - weekday mornings
- Doug Sampson - weekend evenings and overnight loop
Weather on the 9's
- John Koska - chief meteorologist; weekday mornings and afternoons
- Erick Adame - meteorologist; weekday evenings and overnight loop
- Brooke Zegarelli - meteorologist; weekend mornings and afternoons
Sports team
- Tom Carroll - sports director; weekday evenings and overnight loop; also executive producer
- Kevin Carroll - sports anchor; weekday afternoons
- Don Heins - sports anchor; weekend evenings and overnight loop, and Monday daytime
Reporters
- Casey Bortnick - Thursday-Sunday reporter
- Sheba Clarke - general assignment reporter
- Leah George - weekday reporter
- Mike Hedeen - weeknight reporter
- Anne Lithiluxa - Wednesday-Monday reporter
- Mary McCombs - Monday afternoon and evening reporter
- Kate McGowan - Batavia bureau reporter
- Wendy Mills - general assignment reporter
- Seth Voorhees - general assignment reporter
Contributors
- Dan Eaton - "Cooking at Home" contributor
- Mike O'Brian - travel correspondent ("The Getaway Guy")
[edit] Management
- Ed Buttaccio - news director
- Yevette Collins - general manager
- Michael Gouldrick - director of meteorology
- Anne Meagher - operations manager
[edit] References
[edit] External links
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