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WXIN
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| Indianapolis, Indiana | |
| Branding | FOX59 Indianapolis |
| Slogan | News That Works for You |
| Channels | Analog: 59 (UHF) Digital: 45 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | FOX |
| Owner | Tribune Company |
| Founded | February 1, 1984 |
| Call letters meaning | Across (X) Indiana (IN) |
| Former callsigns | WPDS (1984-1985) |
| Former affiliations | Independent |
| Website | www.fox59.com |
WXIN (FOX59 Indianapolis) is the FOX affiliate in Indianapolis, Indiana. The station broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 59, and its digital signal on UHF channel 45. It is owned by the Tribune Company, and shares its studios in northwest Indianapolis with sister station WTTV, the area's CW affiliate.
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The station signed on as independent WPDS on February 1, 1984. The station was originally locally owned, with a programming lineup featuring cartoons, movies, old sitcoms, drama shows and, briefly, an hour-long newscast. It was sold to Outlet Broadcasting in 1985, and changed its call letters to WXIN at that time. Fox affiliated with WXIN in October 9, 1986, and their affiliation has remained intact since, making it the only Indianapolis television station to never have changed its affiliation.
By the late 1980s, the station was known as "FOX59", and had added more sitcoms to its schedule. It began to overtake WTTV in the ratings.
WXIN was bought by Chase in 1989, and was later purchased by Renaissance Broadcasting in 1993 when Renaissance merged with Chase along with WTIC-TV, KDVR & WATL a former Fox affiliate to The WB and now My Network TV. The station came under the ownership of the Tribune Company in 1997 following its merger with Renaissance. Under Tribune, the station gradually added more talk, reality, and court shows.
WXIN and WTTV became sister stations in 2002, following the sale of WTTV from Sinclair Broadcast Group to Tribune. However, Tribune did not switch affiliations between the two because even though WXIN is on the UHF dial, it has been one of Fox's strongest affiliates, and as WTTV has a city of license of Bloomington, does not cover the full Indianapolis market without their Kokomo satellite station (WTTK).
The station began to produce a primetime newscast in 1991, and launched a morning newscast in 1999. Today, WXIN runs 21 hours (26 as of 2008) of local news a week. The weeknight primetime newscast expanded from 35 to 60 minutes on April 17, 2006 and the morning newscast expanded from three to four hours on January 2, 2008.
As of January 2, 2008, Only the morning newscast is simulcasted on sister station WTTV. However, that station does not have a separate news opening. Whenever Fox programming or sports delays the news on WXIN, it is shown on WTTV but under the name of News at Ten, in addition to another live newscast on WXIN immediately following the conclusion of Fox prgramming. There is no "News at Ten" logo in place of "FOX 59 News"
Ratings have been sluggish, especially for the morning newscast, partially blamed for the recent exits of anchors/reporters. Ratings for the evening news have remained the same since expanding their newscasts to an hour.
Meteorologist Jim O'Brien is the only meteorologist on the WXIN staff with an AMS Certified Broadcasting Meteorologist Seal (CBM), which he acqired in July 2007. He is the 3rd meteorologist in Indianapolis (the first two are WTHR meteorologists Chris Wright and Jude Redfield) with this prestigious seal.
- Tracy Forner, co-anchor
- Angela Ganote, co-anchor
- Jim O'Brien (AMS-CBM), meteorologist
- Bill Remieka, traffic reporter
- Zach Meyers, news reporter
- Jenna Maloney, feature reporter (also anchors the Saturday edition of "Fox 59 News at 10" and considered to be a fill-in anchor)
- Kyla Williamson, feature reporter, one day a week
- Heather Muha, reporter, "How Cool is your School" segment
- Bob Donaldson, co-anchor
- Cheryl Parker, co-anchor
- Brian Wilkes, meteorologist
- Chris Hagan, sports director/anchor
- Gene Cox, weekend co-anchor/reporter
- Kimberly King, reporter/fill-in meteorologist
- Todd Klaassen, weekend meteorologist
- Julie Loncich, reporter
- Kara Brooks, reporter
- Russ McQuaid, reporter
- Derrick Wilkerson, reporter
- Kate Williams, reporter (also anchors the Sunday Edition of "Fox 59 News at 10" and considered to be a fill-in anchor)
- Jeremiah Johnson, sports reporter/anchor
- Larry Hawley, sports reporter/anchor
- Wes Woodward, sports reporter
- Justin Allen (morning sports anchor, now at WTSP Tampa)
- Ray D'Alessio (Sports anchor, now at CNN Headline News)
- Jessica D'Onofrio (now in Orlando)
- Rob Desir (Sports anchor, now at Fox in St. Louis)
- Chris Denari (Sports anchor, now TV voice of Indiana Pacers)
- Lourdes Duarte (now at WGN in Chicago)
- Jordana Green (morning news anchor 1999-2002)
- Heidi Hemmat (news reporter, now at Fox in Denver)
- Joni Michels (traffic reporter 1999-2007)
- Darren Miller (meteorologist)
- Michael Moely (weekend news anchor 2005-2006, now at WLWT Cincinnati)
- Clarence Reynolds (morning news anchor 1999-2003, now at WXIA Atlanta)
- Eric Richey (Sports anchor, now at Fox in New Orleans)
- Catt Sadler (entertainment reporter and co-host of Hoosier Millionaire, now host of The Daily 10 at E!)
- Shireen Sandoval
- Adam Shapiro (weekend co-anchor, now at Fox Business Channel)
- Sara Snow (now host of Get Fresh With Sara Snow on Discovery Health)
- Cody Stark (morning news meteorologist 1999-2003 and host of Hoosier Millionaire, now at KOVR/KMAX Sacramento)
- Jessica Taff (sports reporter, now at WABC-TV in New York City)
- Caroline Thau (weekday co-anchor)
- Tracie Wells (weekend anchor 1998-2007)
- Chris Wright (weekday meteorologist, moved to WISH-TV, now at WTHR)
- Debra Zahler (weekend co-anchor)
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| See also Broadcast television in the Lafayette, IN and Terre Haute markets |
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WTVW 7 (Evansville) - WSJV 28 (South Bend) - WFXW 38 (Terre Haute) - WFFT 55 (Fort Wayne) - WXIN 59 (Indianapolis) |
| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, UPN, WB, Religious and Other stations in the state of Indiana |
