Media in Rochester, New York

This is a list of media serving Rochester, New York, and its surrounding area.

Print media

Daily newspapers

  • Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester's main daily newspaper, published since 1833
    • Insider magazine (owned by the Democrat and Chronicle)
  • The Daily Record – legal, real estate, and business daily, has published Monday through Friday since 1908[1]

Weekly and monthly publications

  • City Newspaper – free, monthly publication published since 1972
  • Genesee Valley Penny Saver – free, weekly magazine[2]
  • Rochester Business Journal – weekly business paper[3]
  • The Good Life Magazine – free bi-monthly publication
  • Rochester Indymedia – grassroots, democratically run Independent Media Center[4]
  • Minority Reporter – free, weekly African-American newspaper[5]
    • La Voz – an associated monthly, bilingual newspaper for the area's Hispanic population[6]
  • The Empty Closet – free monthly LGBT magazine that has been published since 1971, making it the oldest LGBT publication in New York and one of the oldest in the United States[7]
  • The Catholic Courier – circulated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester since 1889[8]


Student publications

Defunct newspapers

Frederick Douglass' abolitionist newspaper The North Star was published in Rochester from 1847 to 1851 and merged with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party Paper (based in Syracuse, New York) to form Frederick Douglass' Paper, which was published until 1860.[12]

Rochester was served by the Rochester Post Express published by the Post Express Print Company from 1882 to 1923.[13] In 1923 the paper merged with the Rochester News Corporation's Rochester Evening Journal[14] to become Rochester Evening Journal and The Post Express and served the area from 1923 through 1937.[15] Rochester's evening paper for many years was the Times-Union, which merged operations with the Democrat and Chronicle in 1992, going defunct five years later.

New Women's Times (1975–1985) was a radical feminist newspaper that had reached a national readership by end of its publication. In 1981, it had a circulation of 25,000.[16]

Freetime (1987–2016) was a free, weekly entertainment magazine.[17]

About... time (1972–2002) was an African-American magazine.[18][19]

The Rochester Patriot published 23 times a year from around 1972 until 1982.

The Jewish Ledger – weekly newspaper serving the Rochester area's Jewish community since 1924. Stopped publication in December 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Monroe County Post – had different publications serving different parts of the Rochester area. Gannett discontinued the publications in 2020 as a cost-saving move.

Television

The television broadcast towers at Pinnacle Hill

Rochester is served by eight broadcast television stations:

Cable

Charter Communications provides Rochester with cable-fed internet service, digital and standard cable television, and Spectrum News 1 Rochester, a 24-hour local news channel.

Radio

Rochester is served by several AM and FM radio stations including:

References

  1. ^ "About Us". NY Daily Record. 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  2. ^ "About Us". Genesee Valley Penny Saver. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  3. ^ "About Us". Rochester Business Journal. 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  4. ^ "About Us! | Rochester Indymedia". rochester.indymedia.org. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  5. ^ "About Us". Minority Reporter. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  6. ^ "About Us". Rochester La Voz. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  7. ^ "Empty Closet Archive Chronicles Four Decades of Gay Rights". October 10, 2012. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
  8. ^ "About Us | Catholic News & Multimedia | Diocese of Rochester - Catholic Courier". catholiccourier.com. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  9. ^ "About". Campus Times. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  10. ^ "Clubs & Organizations". Monroe Community College. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  11. ^ "About". Reporter Magazine. 2013-12-18. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  12. ^ David B. Chesebrough, Frederick Douglass; Oratory from Slavery, (Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998), 16-18.
  13. ^ "About The post express. (Rochester, N.Y.) 1882–1923". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
  14. ^ "About Rochester evening journal. (Rochester, N.Y.) 19??-1923". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
  15. ^ "About Rochester journal and the post express. (Rochester, N.Y.) 1923-193?". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
  16. ^ Endres, Kathleen L.; Lueck, Therese L. (1996). Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 237–242. ISBN 9780313286322.
  17. ^ "Freetime mag shuts down". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  18. ^ "Brief history of about...time Magazine". Archived from the original on April 23, 1998. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  19. ^ "about...time". Archived from the original on 2013-05-29. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Media_in_Rochester,_New_York&oldid=1219160981"