Hubbard Broadcasting/WHEC-TV Scholarship
Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc., owner and operator of WHEC-TV, News10NBC, the NBC affiliate in the Rochester region, has supported meteorology students at SUNY Brockport through a scholarship program for more than 20 years.
Hubbard Broadcasting, a family-owned organization, operates its own 50 media stations in 20 cities with more than 2,000 employees. The company acquired Rochester’s WHEC-TV Channel 10 in 1996. Both Hubbard Broadcasting and WHEC-TV share a commitment to local news while strengthening the community and creating value with integrity. News10NBC delivers weather forecasts using the Rochester area’s only live, local Doppler radar—First Alert Doppler 10, which is located on the Brockport campus.
WHEC-TV broadcasts 27 hours of locally produced newscasts each week. The station’s news team won the New York State Emmy Award for best newscast in April 2018, and it received the national Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast in June 2018. These awards were first-time achievements for any station in the Rochester market.
Hubbard Broadcasting began in St. Paul, MN, in 1925 when Stanley Hubbard launched a 1,000-watt radio station, WAMD—Where All Minneapolis Dances—from the Marigold Gardens in Minneapolis. In 1928, Mr. Hubbard consolidated that license with another to create KSTP-AM, a station activated when then President Calvin Coolidge pressed a gold telegraph key from the White House. KSTP-AM has been in continuous operation as a leading voice in the Twin Cities ever since.
Looking to the future, Mr. Hubbard bought the first television camera produced by RCA in 1938 and launched KSTP-TV in 1948 when it was the first television station between Chicago and the west coast. It was also the first television station in the country to offer a half-hour news program seven days a week.
At Brockport, the WHEC-TV/Hubbard Broadcasting Scholarships support students majoring in meteorology within the Department of Earth Sciences. Entering freshmen or transfer students who intend to major in meteorology are eligible to apply. First preference will go to applicants who are graduates of a high school in the Rochester City School District, and second preference will go to applicants who graduated from one of the Rochester Charter Schools, followed by graduates of any other high school in the nine-county greater Rochester area.
Applicants must demonstrate academic excellence and the potential for success in meteorology as determined by the Department of Earth Sciences scholarship selection committee. This scholarship is renewable for three additional years if the recipients maintain a high academic performance and continue to major in meteorology.