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| City | Newport, Kentucky |
| Channels | |
| Branding | Fox 19 Now |
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| Ownership | |
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| WBQC-LD, WZCD-LD | |
| History | |
First air date | August 1, 1968 |
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| 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 |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
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.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WXIX-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.