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| Country | United States |
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| Broadcast area | Western New York |
| Network | Spectrum News |
| Headquarters | Rochester, New York |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Charter Communications |
| Sister channels | NY1 Spectrum News Austin Spectrum News Buffalo Spectrum News Central New York Spectrum News Capital Region Spectrum News 1 North Carolina |
| History | |
| Launched | September 21, 1989 |
| Former names | WGRC-TV (1989–1992) GRC9 (1992–1995) R News (1995–2009) YNN Rochester (2009–2013) Time Warner Cable News Rochester (2013–2016) Spectrum News Rochester (2016–2021) |
| Links | |
| Website | spectrumlocalnews (Rochester) |
Spectrum News 1 Rochester (formerly Spectrum News Rochester and Time Warner Cable News Rochester) is an American cable news television channel owned by Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016, as an affiliate of its Spectrum News slate of regional news channels. The channel provides 24-hour rolling news coverage focused primarily on Rochester, New York and the nearby Genesee River and Finger Lakes regions.
The channel is carried on channel 9 in standard definition, as well as high definition, the latter of which is typically rendered automatically by those Charter Communications customers' high definition supported set-top boxes. Standard definition feeds come through to those customers who purchase Spectrum's Basic-Tier level of cable service. As of March 6, 2018, all customers are required to utilize digital receivers to view the station. These digital receivers come in two types: High Definition Multimedia Interface - HDMI - supported High Definition television digital receivers, and for those televisions void of HDMI connectivity, standard digital receivers. Higher tiered customers view the channel on digital channel 200 in high definition in Rochester. Channel 14 in other Charter Communications systems within the region fill in the extent of the area's coverage. As with the rest of its upstate sister news channels in upstate New York, Spectrum News Rochester shares news content with New York City-based NY1, Charter Communications' flagship regional cable news channel (which the provider carries on the digital tiers of its Upstate New York systems).