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WXIX-TV

February 15, 2024

For the station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that formerly used this call sign, see WVTV.

WXIX-TV (channel 19) is a television station licensed to Newport, Kentucky, United States, serving the Cincinnati metro as the market's Fox affiliate. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power Telemundo affiliate WBQC-LD (channel 25) and 24/7 weather channel WZCD-LD (channel 30). The three stations share studios at 19 Broadcast Plaza on Seventh Street in the Queensgate neighborhood just west of downtown Cincinnati; WXIX-TV's transmitter is located in the South Fairmount neighborhood on the city's northwest side.

WXIX-TV
CityNewport, Kentucky
Channels
BrandingFox 19 Now
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WBQC-LD
WZCD-LD
History
First air date
August 1, 1968
(55 years ago) (1968-08-01)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 19 (UHF, 1968–2009)
  • Digital: 29 (UHF, 2000–2019)
Independent (1968–1986)
Call sign meaning
"XIX" is the Roman numeral for 19
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID39738
ERP235 kW
HAAT290 m (951 ft)
Transmitter coordinates39°7′19″N 84°32′52″W / 39.12194°N 84.54778°W / 39.12194; -84.54778
Links
Public license information
  • Public file
  • LMS
Websitewww.fox19.com

Though the construction permit for a fourth television station to serve Cincinnati—originally assigned channel 74—had been obtained by a Newport group in 1953, it took 15 years and two sales before the station was built on channel 19; its facilities have always been in Ohio. A successful independent station under U.S. Communications Corporation, Metromedia, and Malrite Communications Group before the creation of Fox in 1986, the station began producing a local newscast in 1993 and today airs local newscasts in many time slots.

History edit

Prior to launch edit

On July 9, 1953, Tri-City Broadcasting Company, owner of WNOP (740 AM) in Newport, filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build a television station on channel 74, which had been assigned to Newport.[2] After Gordon Broadcasting, owner of Cincinnati radio station WSAI, dropped its application for the channel, Tri-City became unopposed,[3] and a construction permit for WNOP-TV was granted on December 24, 1953.[2] Jim Lang, the former Campbell County sheriff that controlled Tri-City, envisioned the studios being adjoined by an amusement complex, complete with glass-enclosed restaurant, indoor ice rink, and outdoor swimming pool.[4]

With Lang noting the tribulations of other UHF television stations around the country, however, Tri-City opted not to build its station right away. In April 1956, Lang told a reporter for The Cincinnati Enquirer that it would only be a "matter of time" until channel 74 went on air.[5] Some conversation around the construction permit emerged in late 1962, when Lang sold WNOP radio and the WNOP-TV construction permit to television actor Dean Miller in a deal that ultimately fell through;[6] Tri-City had presented to the FCC a proposal to add a lower-power channel 3 station to Cincinnati (between channel 2 in Dayton and channel 3 in Louisville), which Miller also supported, though chances of approval were slim.[7]

In early 1965, channel 74 was no closer to going on the air than it had been a decade prior, but a change in ownership would lead to the foundation being laid to start a new commercial television station in Greater Cincinnati. That March, Tri-City sold the WNOP-TV permit to Daniel H. Overmyer, who was seeking to build a chain of major-market UHF television stations, for $100,000.[8] Two changes were nearly immediate after the purchase closed. On September 14, 1965, the call letters were changed to WSCO-TV; Overmyer's stations all bore the initials of family members, with the new designation representing his wife, Shirley Clark Overmyer.[9] The FCC was in the process of overhauling the UHF table of allocations at the time, which—together with a rulemaking petition from Overmyer[10]—resulted in the lower channel of 19 being substituted for 74 in 1966.[2] Overmyer selected the Bald Knob tower site,[11] negotiated to lease a studio facility on Eighth Street in the Queensgate neighborhood,[12] and announced that the new station would be affiliated with the new Overmyer Network once it started.[13] Civic leaders in Newport objected, to no avail, to the idea of the station leaving Northern Kentucky.[14]

A launch date of February 1, 1967, was initially slated,[15] but the station did not start on that date. Instead, in April, Overmyer reached a deal to sell 80 percent of his television station group to the American Viscose Corporation (AVC).[16]

Startup and early years edit

The FCC approved the purchase of the Overmyer stations by AVC (which organized its television holdings under the name U.S. Communications Corporation) in December 1967.[17] The following May, the call letters changed one more time to WXIX-TV, representing the Roman numeral for 19;[18] station manager Doug McLarty also cited possible confusion with WCPO-TV in changing the call sign.[19] From the Overmyer-built transmitter facilities and a studio site within an office suite at 801 West Eighth Street in Cincinnati, WXIX-TV debuted on the afternoon of August 1, 1968.[20] The site from which channel 19 went on air was not the one Overmyer had selected; channel 19 was then sued by that property's owners.[21]

Cincinnati's first commercial independent station featured a schedule consisting primarily of movies, sports, and syndicated programs, though it also produced a local daytime children's program hosted by puppeteer Larry Smith.[20] The next year, the station debuted "The Cool Ghoul", a host of Scream-In, channel 19's Saturday night science fiction and horror movie played by Dick VonHoene.[22][23] By the start of 1970, an American Research Bureau study had determined WXIX-TV was the number-one UHF independent station in the United States and in the top ten of all independents, VHF or UHF, nationwide.[24] In 1970, the station purchased a facility on Taconic Terrace in Woodlawn, Ohio, from the defunct K & S Films for use as a larger studio base.[25]

Sale to Metromedia edit

Channel 19 was demonstrating success and attracting viewership, which made it an outlier in the U.S. Communications portfolio. In March 1971, the company suspended operations at its stations in Atlanta and San Francisco,[26] and channel 19 had cut back its broadcast day in the second half of 1970.[27] WXIX-TV came close to joining them in silence. On August 5, 1971, The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. Communications had asked the FCC for permission to take channel 19 and WPGH-TV in Pittsburgh off the air.[27] The two stations, however, got a reprieve because they had instead attracted potential buyers.[28] It was initially announced that a Washington, D.C., communications law firm, Welch and Morgan, would buy the station,[29] but AVC insisted on the buyers endorsing the $2 million in debt associated with channel 19, which caused them to balk at the deal.[30]

By month's end, Metromedia was in negotiations to purchase WXIX-TV,[30] and a deal was reached in early October to purchase the station for the assumption of $3 million in liabilities.[31] The FCC approved of the deal in August 1972.[32]

Metromedia was able to stabilize WXIX-TV, increasing its ability to attract quality programming and contributing its own productions. Furthermore, WXIX-TV started a commercial production division; as none of the other stations had entered this specialty, channel 19 was able to corner between 70 and 80 percent of this market in the Cincinnati area.[33] In the late 1970s, the station's local programs included Cincinnati Stingers hockey games[34] and a news magazine, In Cincinnati.[35] While a second independent station began broadcasting in 1980, WBTI (channel 64) was a part-time subscription television station which had trimmed its ad-supported schedule to a handful of programs by 1983.[36]

Malrite ownership and the arrival of Fox edit

In 1982, Metromedia entered into an agreement to buy WFLD-TV in Chicago. This $136 million deal—the most expensive purchase of an independent station and far and away the highest sale price of any UHF outlet—required it to divest of one of its two UHF stations, WXIX or KRIV in Houston, under the ownership limits of the day that allowed one company to own as many as five VHF and two additional UHF television stations. It chose to sell the Cincinnati outlet, which was in the smallest market of any in which the firm owned TV properties,[37] and it also sold WTCN-TV in Minneapolis to finance the purchase.[38] The buyer was Cleveland-based Malrite Communications Group.[39] The $45 million sale was approved by the FCC in December 1983.[40]

Under Malrite, WXIX-TV continued to be the market's leading non-network station, not far behind the network stations in early evening hours and way ahead of WBTI, which had become a full-time ad-supported station again as WIII in 1985.[41] One advertising agency president declared it had become "one of the big boys" in local television.[42] In the early years under Malrite, the station telecast Xavier Musketeers men's basketball before picking up a multi-year deal to air University of Cincinnati basketball games in 1987.[43] UC basketball had previously aired on the station in the Metromedia era.[44]

It joined Fox as a charter member in 1986.[45] When Fox made a push into children's programming with the startup of the Fox Children's Network (later known as Fox Kids), WXIX started its own Fox Kids Club; within nine months, channel 19 had 80,000 members, outpacing projections of 50,000 in the first year. It also started a new weekly local children's show, Fridays Are Fun, hosted by Michael Flannery.[46]

News startup, studio move, and Raycom purchase edit

 
WXIX logo used from 1996 to 2001. A similar logo was used in the 2000s, and the "19" dated to the 1980s.
 
19 Broadcast Plaza, purchased by WXIX-TV in 1993 and used as its studios since 1995

From the Malrite purchase until his death from esophageal cancer in 1992, Bill T. Jenkins was channel 19's general manager; he also served on the first Fox affiliate association board and advised the creation of Fox Kids, and within Malrite, he was named executive vice president of its television station division, securing Fox affiliations for multiple Malrite stations.[47] He was replaced by Stu Powell, WFLD's general manager; Stu then hired Greg Caputo, who had overseen the launch of a local newsroom at WFLD in 1987, to do the same in Cincinnati.[48]

Launching local news made the Woodlawn site, 15 miles (24 km) from Cincinnati on Interstate 75, a hindrance for news crews. As a result, in 1993, WXIX-TV purchased the former Harriet Beecher Stowe School building in the Queensgate neighborhood, spending $2 million at a sheriff's sale to acquire the former black junior high school which had since been converted into offices. The station converted a third of the structure for its own use, including using the former gymnasium as its primary studio.[49] The station moved into what was renamed "19 Broadcast Plaza" in December 1995; at the same time, it dropped its "19XIX" moniker used for a decade and became known as "Fox 19".[50] Between 1992 and the launch of a morning newscast in 1996, WXIX-TV's staff swelled from 63 to 141 employees.[51]

In 1998, Raycom Media purchased Malrite Communications and its five stations, three of them in Ohio.[52] Under Raycom, the station made a series of news expansions and analyzed leaving 19 Broadcast Plaza for a larger building that could be owned rather than leased.[53]

Sale to Gray Television edit

On June 25, 2018, Atlanta-based Gray Television announced that it had reached an agreement with Raycom to merge their respective broadcasting assets (consisting of Raycom's 63 existing owned-and/or-operated television stations, including WXIX-TV, and Gray's 93 television stations) under Gray's corporate umbrella in a cash-and-stock merger transaction valued at $3.6 billion.[54][55] The sale was approved on December 20 of that year[56] and was completed on January 2, 2019.[57]

News operation edit

While channel 19 studied the introduction of local news in 1978,[58] began airing prime time news updates in 1985, and entertained expanding its news presence in 1989,[59] it was not until the early 1990s that a full-on local newscast started at WXIX-TV. In 1993, Stu Powell of Chicago's WFLD hired that station's news director, Greg Caputo, to start a local newsroom for WXIX-TV.[48] After a $2 million investment, WXIX's news department—the first new TV newsroom in Cincinnati since 1958[60]—debuted on October 18, 1993. Initially, channel 19 produced a half-hour Ten O'Clock News and the short-lived Midnight News, an unusual attempt at a late-night local newscast; both programs were originally anchored by Jack Atherton and Phyllis Watson alongside chief meteorologist Rich Apuzzo and sports director Greg Hoard, the latter the only on-air talent poached from another station.[60] In addition, Tricia Macke was brought on as a contributor—later going full-time after the station requested she stop her other modeling job—and Kevin Frazier, now the co-host of Entertainment Tonight, was the weekend sports anchor.[61]

After channel 19 moved into the former Stowe School, several expansions of news at WXIX were carried out. The first was the extension of the 10 p.m. news to a full hour in January 1996.[62] That fall, 19 in the Morning, a three-hour morning news program, debuted.[51] 19 News Midday, a half-hour at 11:30 a.m., followed in May 1997.[63] Even though the morning shows were still gaining an audience, the Ten O'Clock News was among the highest-rated in the United States.[64] After seeing success with a 10 p.m. newscast, the station expanded further into morning news, adding a 6 a.m. hour in 1998, and ratings increased when it promoted Macke to full-time 10 p.m. anchor and hired Sheila Gray to anchor Fox 19 in the Morning in 1999.[65]

 
Sheila Gray (right) interviews Navy Rear Admiral Miles B. Wachendorf (left) on Fox 19 in the Morning.

After nearly a decade, news expansions began again in 2008 with the launch of the Fox 19 Evening News, a 6:30 p.m. local newscast.[65] In 2010, 2011, and 2012, extensions to the morning newscast brought its total length at its peak to seven hours, from 4 to 11 a.m.[66][67][68] The station would also debut weekend morning newscasts in 2012.[69] In the 2010s, WXIX also had news sharing partnerships with WLW radio[70] and The Cincinnati Enquirer.[71]

In 2018, WXIX added 4 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts, the latter the first competition to network affiliates in that time slot in Cincinnati TV history.[72] This was followed in January 2020 by 90 further daily minutes of news from 5 to 6:30 p.m.[73] and in 2021 by an hour of news at 3 p.m.[74] As of 2024, WXIX produces 71+1⁄2 hours of local newscasts each week.

Notable alumni edit

Technical information edit

Subchannels edit

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WXIX-TV[77]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
19.1 720p 16:9 WXIX-DT Main WXIX-TV programming / Fox
19.2 480i H&I Heroes & Icons
19.3 The365 The365
19.4 Grit Grit
19.5 Ion Ion Television
19.6 Crime True Crime Network
64.4 480i 16:9 TBD TBD (WSTR-DT4)
  Broadcast on behalf of another station

WXIX's main subchannel is carried on the ATSC 3.0 (Next Gen TV) multiplex of WSTR-TV, which launched in 2021; in exchange, WXIX hosts one of WSTR's subchannels.[78]

Analog-to-digital conversion edit

WXIX-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 19, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[79] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 29 until being repacked to channel 15 in 2019.[80]

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wxix, station, milwaukee, wisconsin, that, formerly, used, this, call, sign, wvtv, channel, television, station, licensed, newport, kentucky, united, states, serving, cincinnati, metro, market, affiliate, owned, gray, television, alongside, power, telemundo, a. For the station in Milwaukee Wisconsin that formerly used this call sign see WVTV WXIX TV channel 19 is a television station licensed to Newport Kentucky United States serving the Cincinnati metro as the market s Fox affiliate It is owned by Gray Television alongside low power Telemundo affiliate WBQC LD channel 25 and 24 7 weather channel WZCD LD channel 30 The three stations share studios at 19 Broadcast Plaza on Seventh Street in the Queensgate neighborhood just west of downtown Cincinnati WXIX TV s transmitter is located in the South Fairmount neighborhood on the city s northwest side WXIX TVNewport KentuckyCincinnati OhioUnited StatesCityNewport KentuckyChannelsDigital 15 UHF Virtual 19BrandingFox 19 NowProgrammingAffiliations19 1 Foxfor others see SubchannelsOwnershipOwnerGray Television Gray Television Licensee LLC Sister stationsWBQC LDWZCD LDHistoryFirst air dateAugust 1 1968 55 years ago 1968 08 01 Former channel number s Analog 19 UHF 1968 2009 Digital 29 UHF 2000 2019 Former affiliationsIndependent 1968 1986 Call sign meaning XIX is the Roman numeral for 19Technical information 1 Licensing authorityFCCFacility ID39738ERP235 kWHAAT290 m 951 ft Transmitter coordinates39 7 19 N 84 32 52 W 39 12194 N 84 54778 W 39 12194 84 54778LinksPublic license informationPublic fileLMSWebsitewww wbr fox19 wbr comThough the construction permit for a fourth television station to serve Cincinnati originally assigned channel 74 had been obtained by a Newport group in 1953 it took 15 years and two sales before the station was built on channel 19 its facilities have always been in Ohio A successful independent station under U S Communications Corporation Metromedia and Malrite Communications Group before the creation of Fox in 1986 the station began producing a local newscast in 1993 and today airs local newscasts in many time slots Contents 1 History 1 1 Prior to launch 1 2 Startup and early years 1 3 Sale to Metromedia 1 4 Malrite ownership and the arrival of Fox 1 5 News startup studio move and Raycom purchase 1 6 Sale to Gray Television 2 News operation 2 1 Notable alumni 3 Technical information 3 1 Subchannels 3 2 Analog to digital conversion 4 References 5 External linksHistory editPrior to launch edit On July 9 1953 Tri City Broadcasting Company owner of WNOP 740 AM in Newport filed with the Federal Communications Commission FCC for a construction permit to build a television station on channel 74 which had been assigned to Newport 2 After Gordon Broadcasting owner of Cincinnati radio station WSAI dropped its application for the channel Tri City became unopposed 3 and a construction permit for WNOP TV was granted on December 24 1953 2 Jim Lang the former Campbell County sheriff that controlled Tri City envisioned the studios being adjoined by an amusement complex complete with glass enclosed restaurant indoor ice rink and outdoor swimming pool 4 With Lang noting the tribulations of other UHF television stations around the country however Tri City opted not to build its station right away In April 1956 Lang told a reporter for The Cincinnati Enquirer that it would only be a matter of time until channel 74 went on air 5 Some conversation around the construction permit emerged in late 1962 when Lang sold WNOP radio and the WNOP TV construction permit to television actor Dean Miller in a deal that ultimately fell through 6 Tri City had presented to the FCC a proposal to add a lower power channel 3 station to Cincinnati between channel 2 in Dayton and channel 3 in Louisville which Miller also supported though chances of approval were slim 7 In early 1965 channel 74 was no closer to going on the air than it had been a decade prior but a change in ownership would lead to the foundation being laid to start a new commercial television station in Greater Cincinnati That March Tri City sold the WNOP TV permit to Daniel H Overmyer who was seeking to build a chain of major market UHF television stations for 100 000 8 Two changes were nearly immediate after the purchase closed On September 14 1965 the call letters were changed to WSCO TV Overmyer s stations all bore the initials of family members with the new designation representing his wife Shirley Clark Overmyer 9 The FCC was in the process of overhauling the UHF table of allocations at the time which together with a rulemaking petition from Overmyer 10 resulted in the lower channel of 19 being substituted for 74 in 1966 2 Overmyer selected the Bald Knob tower site 11 negotiated to lease a studio facility on Eighth Street in the Queensgate neighborhood 12 and announced that the new station would be affiliated with the new Overmyer Network once it started 13 Civic leaders in Newport objected to no avail to the idea of the station leaving Northern Kentucky 14 A launch date of February 1 1967 was initially slated 15 but the station did not start on that date Instead in April Overmyer reached a deal to sell 80 percent of his television station group to the American Viscose Corporation AVC 16 Startup and early years edit The FCC approved the purchase of the Overmyer stations by AVC which organized its television holdings under the name U S Communications Corporation in December 1967 17 The following May the call letters changed one more time to WXIX TV representing the Roman numeral for 19 18 station manager Doug McLarty also cited possible confusion with WCPO TV in changing the call sign 19 From the Overmyer built transmitter facilities and a studio site within an office suite at 801 West Eighth Street in Cincinnati WXIX TV debuted on the afternoon of August 1 1968 20 The site from which channel 19 went on air was not the one Overmyer had selected channel 19 was then sued by that property s owners 21 Cincinnati s first commercial independent station featured a schedule consisting primarily of movies sports and syndicated programs though it also produced a local daytime children s program hosted by puppeteer Larry Smith 20 The next year the station debuted The Cool Ghoul a host of Scream In channel 19 s Saturday night science fiction and horror movie played by Dick VonHoene 22 23 By the start of 1970 an American Research Bureau study had determined WXIX TV was the number one UHF independent station in the United States and in the top ten of all independents VHF or UHF nationwide 24 In 1970 the station purchased a facility on Taconic Terrace in Woodlawn Ohio from the defunct K amp S Films for use as a larger studio base 25 Sale to Metromedia edit Channel 19 was demonstrating success and attracting viewership which made it an outlier in the U S Communications portfolio In March 1971 the company suspended operations at its stations in Atlanta and San Francisco 26 and channel 19 had cut back its broadcast day in the second half of 1970 27 WXIX TV came close to joining them in silence On August 5 1971 The Wall Street Journal reported that U S Communications had asked the FCC for permission to take channel 19 and WPGH TV in Pittsburgh off the air 27 The two stations however got a reprieve because they had instead attracted potential buyers 28 It was initially announced that a Washington D C communications law firm Welch and Morgan would buy the station 29 but AVC insisted on the buyers endorsing the 2 million in debt associated with channel 19 which caused them to balk at the deal 30 By month s end Metromedia was in negotiations to purchase WXIX TV 30 and a deal was reached in early October to purchase the station for the assumption of 3 million in liabilities 31 The FCC approved of the deal in August 1972 32 Metromedia was able to stabilize WXIX TV increasing its ability to attract quality programming and contributing its own productions Furthermore WXIX TV started a commercial production division as none of the other stations had entered this specialty channel 19 was able to corner between 70 and 80 percent of this market in the Cincinnati area 33 In the late 1970s the station s local programs included Cincinnati Stingers hockey games 34 and a news magazine In Cincinnati 35 While a second independent station began broadcasting in 1980 WBTI channel 64 was a part time subscription television station which had trimmed its ad supported schedule to a handful of programs by 1983 36 Malrite ownership and the arrival of Fox edit In 1982 Metromedia entered into an agreement to buy WFLD TV in Chicago This 136 million deal the most expensive purchase of an independent station and far and away the highest sale price of any UHF outlet required it to divest of one of its two UHF stations WXIX or KRIV in Houston under the ownership limits of the day that allowed one company to own as many as five VHF and two additional UHF television stations It chose to sell the Cincinnati outlet which was in the smallest market of any in which the firm owned TV properties 37 and it also sold WTCN TV in Minneapolis to finance the purchase 38 The buyer was Cleveland based Malrite Communications Group 39 The 45 million sale was approved by the FCC in December 1983 40 Under Malrite WXIX TV continued to be the market s leading non network station not far behind the network stations in early evening hours and way ahead of WBTI which had become a full time ad supported station again as WIII in 1985 41 One advertising agency president declared it had become one of the big boys in local television 42 In the early years under Malrite the station telecast Xavier Musketeers men s basketball before picking up a multi year deal to air University of Cincinnati basketball games in 1987 43 UC basketball had previously aired on the station in the Metromedia era 44 It joined Fox as a charter member in 1986 45 When Fox made a push into children s programming with the startup of the Fox Children s Network later known as Fox Kids WXIX started its own Fox Kids Club within nine months channel 19 had 80 000 members outpacing projections of 50 000 in the first year It also started a new weekly local children s show Fridays Are Fun hosted by Michael Flannery 46 News startup studio move and Raycom purchase edit nbsp WXIX logo used from 1996 to 2001 A similar logo was used in the 2000s and the 19 dated to the 1980s nbsp 19 Broadcast Plaza purchased by WXIX TV in 1993 and used as its studios since 1995From the Malrite purchase until his death from esophageal cancer in 1992 Bill T Jenkins was channel 19 s general manager he also served on the first Fox affiliate association board and advised the creation of Fox Kids and within Malrite he was named executive vice president of its television station division securing Fox affiliations for multiple Malrite stations 47 He was replaced by Stu Powell WFLD s general manager Stu then hired Greg Caputo who had overseen the launch of a local newsroom at WFLD in 1987 to do the same in Cincinnati 48 Launching local news made the Woodlawn site 15 miles 24 km from Cincinnati on Interstate 75 a hindrance for news crews As a result in 1993 WXIX TV purchased the former Harriet Beecher Stowe School building in the Queensgate neighborhood spending 2 million at a sheriff s sale to acquire the former black junior high school which had since been converted into offices The station converted a third of the structure for its own use including using the former gymnasium as its primary studio 49 The station moved into what was renamed 19 Broadcast Plaza in December 1995 at the same time it dropped its 19XIX moniker used for a decade and became known as Fox 19 50 Between 1992 and the launch of a morning newscast in 1996 WXIX TV s staff swelled from 63 to 141 employees 51 In 1998 Raycom Media purchased Malrite Communications and its five stations three of them in Ohio 52 Under Raycom the station made a series of news expansions and analyzed leaving 19 Broadcast Plaza for a larger building that could be owned rather than leased 53 Sale to Gray Television edit On June 25 2018 Atlanta based Gray Television announced that it had reached an agreement with Raycom to merge their respective broadcasting assets consisting of Raycom s 63 existing owned and or operated television stations including WXIX TV and Gray s 93 television stations under Gray s corporate umbrella in a cash and stock merger transaction valued at 3 6 billion 54 55 The sale was approved on December 20 of that year 56 and was completed on January 2 2019 57 News operation editWhile channel 19 studied the introduction of local news in 1978 58 began airing prime time news updates in 1985 and entertained expanding its news presence in 1989 59 it was not until the early 1990s that a full on local newscast started at WXIX TV In 1993 Stu Powell of Chicago s WFLD hired that station s news director Greg Caputo to start a local newsroom for WXIX TV 48 After a 2 million investment WXIX s news department the first new TV newsroom in Cincinnati since 1958 60 debuted on October 18 1993 Initially channel 19 produced a half hour Ten O Clock News and the short lived Midnight News an unusual attempt at a late night local newscast both programs were originally anchored by Jack Atherton and Phyllis Watson alongside chief meteorologist Rich Apuzzo and sports director Greg Hoard the latter the only on air talent poached from another station 60 In addition Tricia Macke was brought on as a contributor later going full time after the station requested she stop her other modeling job and Kevin Frazier now the co host of Entertainment Tonight was the weekend sports anchor 61 After channel 19 moved into the former Stowe School several expansions of news at WXIX were carried out The first was the extension of the 10 p m news to a full hour in January 1996 62 That fall 19 in the Morning a three hour morning news program debuted 51 19 News Midday a half hour at 11 30 a m followed in May 1997 63 Even though the morning shows were still gaining an audience the Ten O Clock News was among the highest rated in the United States 64 After seeing success with a 10 p m newscast the station expanded further into morning news adding a 6 a m hour in 1998 and ratings increased when it promoted Macke to full time 10 p m anchor and hired Sheila Gray to anchor Fox 19 in the Morning in 1999 65 nbsp Sheila Gray right interviews Navy Rear Admiral Miles B Wachendorf left on Fox 19 in the Morning After nearly a decade news expansions began again in 2008 with the launch of the Fox 19 Evening News a 6 30 p m local newscast 65 In 2010 2011 and 2012 extensions to the morning newscast brought its total length at its peak to seven hours from 4 to 11 a m 66 67 68 The station would also debut weekend morning newscasts in 2012 69 In the 2010s WXIX also had news sharing partnerships with WLW radio 70 and The Cincinnati Enquirer 71 In 2018 WXIX added 4 p m and 11 p m newscasts the latter the first competition to network affiliates in that time slot in Cincinnati TV history 72 This was followed in January 2020 by 90 further daily minutes of news from 5 to 6 30 p m 73 and in 2021 by an hour of news at 3 p m 74 As of 2024 WXIX produces 71 1 2 hours of local newscasts each week Notable alumni edit Dan Hoard radio and TV sportscaster for the Cincinnati Bengals and Cincinnati Bearcats football and basketball 61 Maria LaRosa meteorologist now with WNBC 75 Chris Rose sportscaster 61 Ben Swann anchor and reporter 2010 2013 76 Technical information editSubchannels edit The station s signal is multiplexed Subchannels of WXIX TV 77 Channel Res Aspect Short name Programming19 1 720p 16 9 WXIX DT Main WXIX TV programming Fox19 2 480i H amp I Heroes amp Icons19 3 The365 The36519 4 Grit Grit19 5 Ion Ion Television19 6 Crime True Crime Network64 4 480i 16 9 TBD TBD WSTR DT4 Broadcast on behalf of another station WXIX s main subchannel is carried on the ATSC 3 0 Next Gen TV multiplex of WSTR TV which launched in 2021 in exchange WXIX hosts one of WSTR s subchannels 78 Analog to digital conversion edit WXIX TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal over UHF channel 19 on June 12 2009 as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television 79 The station s digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 29 until being repacked to channel 15 in 2019 80 References edit Facility Technical Data for WXIX TV Licensing and Management System Federal Communications Commission a b c FCC History Cards for WXIX TV Tri City Seeks Channel 74 Newport Firm Amends Plea As Gordon Cancels Action The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati Ohio November 17 1953 p 14 Archived from the original on February 3 2022 Retrieved February 3 2022 via Newspapers com Collins William November 24 1953 TV Station De Luxe Upcoming The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati Ohio p 14 Archived from the original on February 3 2022 Retrieved February 3 2022 via Newspapers com Baum Dan April 9 1956 Greater Cincinnati To Get New TV Station Says Head Of Corporation That Runs WNOP The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati Ohio p 6 Archived from the original on February 4 2022 Retrieved February 3 2022 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