WXIX-TV

WXIX-TV

Newport, Kentucky Cincinnati, Ohio United States
City	Newport, Kentucky
Channels	Digital: 15 (UHF) Virtual: 19
Branding	Fox 19 Now
Programming
Affiliations	19.1: Fox for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations	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)
Former affiliations	Independent (1968–1986)
Call sign meaning	"XIX" is the Roman numeral for 19
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	39738
ERP	235 kW
HAAT	290 m (951 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	39°7′19″N 84°32′52″W / 39.12194°N 84.54778°W / 39.12194; -84.54778
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.fox19.com

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.

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.