Category: Syracuse TV

SYRACUSE -- NBC affiliate WSTM channel 3 will be going off the air overnight tonight, for what the station is calling "routine maintenance."  According to CNYCentral.com, the outage, from 11:35pm tonight until 6:30am tomorrow, will only impact over-the-air viewers.  Satellite, cable and fiberoptic viewers won't notice anything different.

SYRACUSE -- More than 35 local school children will appear on television later today.  They're the finalists in the Post-Standard/WCNY Spelling Bee, which will be televised live on WCNY-TV 24.1.  The winner will advance the national level of competition in Washington, D.C. this spring.

SYRACUSE -- Get a handful of the area's top local professors.  Sit them down at a table. Invite them to discuss current political and social issues. Add lights and TV cameras.  Sit back and enjoy for 30 minutes.  It's a recipe for success for WCNY-TV's "Ivory Tower Half Hour," which celebrates its 400th episode -- […]

SYRACUSE -- It's a blast from the past in this latest installment of "Picture of the Week."  NewsChannel 9 (WSYR-TV) anchor and Syracuse broadcast historian Rod Wood recently sent over several photos from his extensive collection.  This week, we look back at a WTVH publicity photo from the late 1980s or early 90s.  Can you […]

SYRACUSE -- Following the recent resignation of J. Daniel Pluff, there will be not one, but two new hosts taking WCNY-TV's "Financial Fitness" into its 20th year.  The PBS affiliate says Jim Burns and Vicki Brackens will share hosting duties for the locally-produced program.  Both are familiar faces to viewers: Burns has been guest hosting […]

NEW YORK CITY -- Jeff Rossen, former reporter for ABC affiliates in Utica (WUTR) and Syracuse (WSYR-TV, though it was WIXT then), has been named "National Investigative  Correspondent" for NBC's Today show.  Rossen will also be producing investigative pieces for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and Dateline.

SYRACUSE -- After founding and hosting Financial Fitness on WCNY-TV for the past 20 years, J. Daniel Pluff has recently resigned from the program.  According to an email Pluff sent out to former guests and obtained by CNYTVNews.com, Pluff says he walked out over a disagreement with station management.

SYRACUSE -- You may have heard the buzz about Upstate, a television sitcom shot and based in Syracuse. Most of the shooting for a pilot episode took place last fall, and now the finished product has been unveiled. After a debut at Syracuse Stage on Sunday, the episode will air locally on NewsChannel 9 (WSYR-TV) […]

BOSTON -- Former NewsChannel 9 (WSYR-TV) reporter and anchor Heather Hegedus has a new job, starting today.  She's at Fox 25 (WFXT) in Boston.  And forget about the usual "first day orientation" stuff, she's jumping right into the fire, filling-in for the station's 6pm anchor tonight.

BUFFALO -- It's two franchises for the price of one today: this is a "Picture of the Week" and a "Where Are They Now" together in the same post.  This week's photo comes to us from Grant deBruin, formerly of Syracuse's WSYR-TV and Utica's WKTV.