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SEATTLE — Barry Ackerley, who once owned several upstate New York television stations including ABC affiliates WIXT in Syracuse and WUTR in Utica, has died. News reports from Ackerley’s long-time home base of Seattle say Ackerley died after suffering a stroke yesterday morning in California at the age of 76.

NEW YORK CITY — With a story as big as the Charlie Sheen “scandal” (for lack of a better one-word summary), it was only a matter of time until CNYTVNews.com would have some sort of local tie-in.  The troubled actor called Jeff Rossen, a former Syracuse and Utica TV reporter, a “rock star” after Rossen