Fox 59 news anchor leaving full#
Fox 59 news anchor leaving tv#

Fox 59 news anchor leaving full#

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 it does not cover the full Indianapolis market without its Kokomosatellite station (WTTK). WXIN and WTTV/WTTK became sister stations in 2002, following the sale of WTTV/WTTK from Sinclair Broadcast Group to Tribune. Under Tribune, the station gradually added more talk, reality, and court shows. Fox 59 came under the ownership of the Tribune Company in 1997 following its merger with Renaissance. 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 (channel 61) in Hartford, KDVR (channel 31) in Denver and WATL (channel 36) in Atlanta (the latter, a former Fox owned-and-operated station that later affiliated with The WB and is most-recently affiliated with MyNetworkTV). It began to overtake WTTV in the ratings. Fox affiliated with WXIN on October 9, 1986, and its affiliation has remained intact since, making it the only Indianapolis television station to never have changed its affiliation, and one of two remaining charter Fox stations in Indiana (the other is WFFT-TV in Fort Wayne).īy the late 1980s, the station was known as 'Fox 59', and had added more sitcoms to its schedule. It was sold to Outlet Broadcasting in 1985, and changed its call letters to WXIN at that time.

Fox 59 news anchor leaving tv#

The P, D, and S respectively stood for the initials of the station's three founders: Ron Palamara (a local businessman), Chris Duffy (a former executive at other local TV stations), and Melvin Simon (the shopping mall magnate and co-owner of the Indiana Pacers NBA franchise). The station was originally locally owned, with a programming lineup featuring cartoons, movies, old sitcoms, drama shows and, briefly, an hour-long newscast. The station signed on as independent WPDS-TV on February 1, 1984. After 1957, Channel 59 would remain dormant until a later reassignment as an Indianapolis channel. The station moved to Channel 18 in 1957 and eventually became WLFI-TV. Sarkes Tarzian launched WFAM-TV in Lafayette in 1953 as a CBS affiliate.

In the 1950s, the Channel 59 frequency was assigned to Lafayette, Indiana, to the northwest of Indianapolis.

3.2.2 Current on-air staff (as of January 10, 2011).'Crossroads of' or 'Across'( X)Indiana ( IN) 73rd Street (also known as Westlane Road). Its transmitter and antenna are located just a few miles away at 2350 W. It is owned by the Tribune Company, and shares its studios at 6910 Network Place (near 71st Street & I-465) in northwest Indianapolis with sister station WTTV (channel 4), the area's CW affiliate. The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 45, using its former analog channel 59 as its virtual channel via PSIP. WXIN, channel 59, is the Fox affiliated television station in Indianapolis, Indiana.