Rochester: Communications

Newspapers and Magazines

Gannett Rochester Newspapers publishes the city's daily newspaper, the morning Democrat and Chronicle. City Newspaper is a weekly alternative journal. Other locally published newspapers include Golden Times , a publication aimed at mature citizens, The Daily Record , for business and legal professionals, as well as Greater Rochester Advertiser, The Greece Post, and several religious newspapers. About a dozen magazines are published in Rochester on topics ranging from antiques to business.

Television and Radio

Five television stations—four network affiliates, and one public—serve Rochester. Time Warner Communications provides cable service. The city is served by five AM and eight FM radio stations. Two college stations broadcast alternative music. Rochester Radio Reading Service on WXXI sponsors a program of readings for the sight-impaired from local and national newspapers and magazines.

Media Information: Democrat and Chronicle , 55 Exchange Blvd., Rochester, NY 14614; telephone (585)232-7100. City Newspaper , 250 North Goodman St., Rochester, NY 14607; telephone (585)244-3329

Rochester Online

Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester. Available www.artsrochester.org

City of Rochester. Available www.ci.rochester.ny.us

Greater Rochester Visitors Association. Available www.visitrochester.com

Monroe County Industrial Development Agency. Available www.growmonroe.org

Monroe County Planning & Economic Development. Available www.monroecounty.gov

Rochester Business Alliance. Available www.rochesterbusinessalliance.com

Rochester City School District. Available www.rcsdk12.org

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Available www.democratandchronicle.com

Rochester Public Library. Available www.rochester.lib.ny.us

Selected Bibliography

DuBois, Eugene E. The City of Frederick Douglass: Rochester's African-American People and Places (Landmark Society of Western New York, 1994)

Johnson, Paul E. A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 (New York: Hill & Wang, 1990)

Lanni, Clement Garibaldi, George W. Aldridge, Big Boss, Small City (Rochester, N.Y., Rochester Alliance Press, 1939)