10 Facts About WUHF

WUHF is a television station in Rochester, New York, United States, affiliated with the Fox network.

WUHF began operations on January 27,1980, as a general entertainment independent station running cartoons, sitcoms, movies, drama series, and religious programs.

The latter station had only used the WUHF calls for its first year of experimental operation ; it is Ion Television owned-and-operated station WPXN-TV.

On October 9,1986, WUHF became a charter affiliate of Fox for Rochester and was branded as "Fox 31".

However, WUHF was initially still programmed as an independent station since Fox would only air one program, The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers until April 1987, and even then, would not present an entire week's worth of programming until 1993.

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On May 15,2012, Sinclair and Fox agreed to a five-year extension to the network's affiliation agreement with Sinclair's 19 Fox stations, including WUHF, allowing them to continue carrying the network's programming through 2017.

On November 30,1997, WUHF established its own news department and aired a nightly prime time newscast along with a Sunday night sports highlight show.

In 2006, WUHF added The Tube digital music video channel on a new second digital subchannel; the channel was removed when the network went out of business in 2007.

WUHF discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 31, on February 17,2009, the original target date in which full-power television in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate .

WUHF has been carried on satellite systems since 1996 and it is currently the only Rochester-based television station seen in Canada on the Shaw Direct satellite provider.