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WXIX-TV, channel 19, is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Newport, Kentucky, USA and serving the Cincinnati, Ohio television market. WXIX-TV is owned by Raycom Media, and maintains studios on Seventh Street in downtown Cincinnati; its transmitter is located in the South Fairmount neighborhood on the northwest side of Cincinnati. ==History== WXIX-TV began operation as an independent station on August 1, 1968; it was founded by U.S. Communications Corporation, which also owned UHF independent stations in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and San Francisco.〔"WXIX-TV on air Aug. 1." ''Broadcasting'', August 12, 1968, pg. 61. ()〕 WXIX-TV was the first new commercial station in the market since 1949, and the second UHF station in the area (behind PBS member station WCET, channel 48). The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had allocated one full-power commercial UHF station to Cincinnati – channel 65 (later 64, now occupied by WSTR-TV). However, when U.S. Communications found out that the FCC had dropped in a channel 19 allocation across the river in Newport, it sought a license for that allocation instead. The lower channel number not only allowed WXIX to provide wider signal coverage at less cost, but was also thought to be more marketable. While WXIX was running test transmissions before its inaugural broadcast, the station intermittently aired "mini-shows" featuring (The Larry Smith Puppets ) that promoted the sale of UHF converters for use with pre-1964 television sets which were only equipped to receive VHF signals at the time. Larry Smith and his puppets (a witch named "Battie Hattie from Cincinnati" and her dog "Snarfy" among other characters) later hosted a daytime children's program in the weekday afternoons for several years. Afterward, "The Cool Ghoul"〔http://www.larrysmithpuppets.com/coolghoul.html〕 – played by Dick VonHoene, known for his weekend late night sci-fi/monster movie program ''"Scream-In"'' – also hosted a weekday afternoon children's program. There was an afternoon show called ''"Kimberly's Cartoon Capers"'', an afternoon cartoon variety hour hosted by Kimberly, a 13-year-old teenage girl. By the early 1970s, U.S. Communications encountered financial difficulties, largely due to poor advertising revenues and partially from the failure of a planned merger with the short-lived Overmyer Network. The firm wound up taking its San Francisco, Atlanta and Pittsburgh stations off-the-air (all would resume operations under different ownership) and also considered the same for WXIX-TV.〔"Group mothballs two U's, cites low ad revenues." ''Broadcasting'', March 29, 1971, pg. 96. ()〕 Instead it put the station up for sale, and would find a buyer for WXIX in Metromedia for $3 million in 1972.〔"WXIX-TV to Metromedia in $3 million sale." ''Broadcasting'', October 11, 1971, pg. 48. ()〕〔"Metromedia gets its Cincinnati U." ''Broadcasting'', August 14, 1972, pg. 37. ()〕 Metromedia's deep pockets helped stabilize channel 19's entire operation, and the station benefited from Metromedia's aggressiveness in purchasing syndicated programming as well as developing its own first-run programming. After nearly a decade on air, channel 19 finally received competition in 1980 with the launch of WBTI (channel 64, now WSTR-TV), which ran general entertainment and religious programing before 7 p.m. and subscription television at night. However, that competition was short-lived, ending when WBTI became a full-time subscription station by 1982. The over-air subscription television phenomenon occurred in larger markets in the U.S. where cable had yet to penetrate city centers before the late 1980s. Malrite Communications bought channel 19 from Metromedia in December 1983.〔"Through the roof with Metromedia." ''Broadcasting'', August 30, 1982, pp. 25–26. () ()〕〔("Changing Hands." ''Broadcasting'', December 5, 1983, pg. 72 )〕 The station remained the leading independent station in the market, even after WBTI returned to full-time general entertainment programming in 1985. On October 6, 1986, WXIX became a charter affiliate of the upstart Fox network (which, coincidentally used some of WXIX's former Metromedia sister stations as its charter owned-and-operated stations). The station changed its on-air branding from ''"19XIX"'' to ''"Fox 19"'' in 1996. In 1998, Malrite Communications merged with Raycom Media. Around 2000, WXIX operated a large open space inside the Tri-County Mall called the "Fox 19 Station Break." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WXIX-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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