KRXI-TV

{{Short description|Television station in Reno, Nevada}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2026}} {{Infobox television station | callsign = KRXI-TV | city = | above = Currently silent | logo = KRXI-TV Fox 11 (2012).svg | logo_size = 200px | logo_alt = The Fox network logo in black next to a red sans serif numeral 11. | image = KRNV (2022).svg | image_size = 160px | image_alt = A wide sans serif 4 with the NBC peacock logo superimposed on it. | branding = {{ubl|'''11.1:''' Fox 11|'''11.2:''' ''News 4''}} | digital = 23 (UHF) | virtual = 11 | translators = ''see {{section link||Translators}}'' | affiliations = {{ubl|'''11.1:''' Fox|'''11.2:''' NBC|'''11.3:''' Charge!}} | founded = August 21, 1992 | airdate = {{Start date|1995|12|3}} | location = Reno, Nevada | country = United States | callsign_meaning = Reno and XI (Roman numeral 11) | former_callsigns = {{ubl|KCHZ (8/21/1992–9/4/1992)|KRXI (1992–2002)}} | former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 11 (VHF, 1996–2009)|'''Digital:''' 44 (UHF, until 2018)}} | owner = Sinclair Broadcast Group | licensee = KRXI Licensee, LLC | sister_stations = KNSN-TV, KRNV-DT | former_affiliations = | erp = 400 kW | haat = {{convert|854|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} | facility_id = 48360 | coordinates = {{coord|39|35|23|N|119|55|41|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}} | licensing_authority = FCC | website = {{ubl|'''11.1:''' {{URL|https://foxreno.com/}}|'''11.2:''' {{URL|https://mynews4.com/}}}} }} '''KRXI-TV''' (channel 11) is a television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, affiliated with Fox and NBC. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside sports-formatted independent station KNSN-TV (channel 21). Sinclair also provides certain services to KRNV-DT (channel 4) under joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Cunningham Broadcasting; however, Sinclair effectively owns KRNV as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The three stations share studios on Vassar Street in Reno; KRXI-TV is broadcast from transmitters on Peavine Peak and Slide Mountain.

KRXI-TV began broadcasting on December 3, 1995. It replaced channel 21, then KAME-TV, as Reno's Fox affiliate. Luther Mack, a restaurant owner, won the channel 11 permit and contracted with Cox Broadcasting for management, with Cox buying the station outright; Cox also programmed KAME. Even though the creation of a local news department was announced, the station primarily rebroadcast the 10 p.m. newscast of Cox-owned KTVU in Oakland, California. Sinclair acquired KRXI-TV and three other Cox stations in small markets in 2013; later that year, it purchased the physical assets of KRNV-DT, then Reno's NBC affiliate. On December 1, 2025, NBC programming moved from KRNV to a subchannel of KRXI.

==History== ===Early years and Cox ownership=== The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added channel 11 at Reno—the fifth VHF allotment in the city—to the Television Table of Assignments on October 15, 1984, rejecting a counterproposal by the owners of KTVN and KOLO-TV to instead add channel 11 to Redding, California; KHSL-TV in Chico opposed the counterproposal on grounds of potential interference with its channel 12 facility and with community-owned translators and cable services.<ref name="FCC841015">{{cite web|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-1984-10-25 |title=TV Broadcast Stations in Reno, NV and Redding, CA |date=October 25, 1984 |work=Federal Register |access-date=October 27, 2025 |pages=42936-42938}}</ref>

By November 1985, the FCC had received 16 applications to build a TV station on channel 11 at Reno.<ref name="Reno851112">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-legal-notice/183342506/|date=November 12, 1985|page=3C|title=Legal Notice|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 24, 2025}}</ref> In 1987, FCC administrative law judge Joseph Chachkin favored the Nevada Television Corporation, a group of businessmen headed by McDonald's franchise owner Luther Mack, over five remaining contenders for the permit. He favored the group's ownership structure and proposed coverage<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://recnet.net/fccrecord/?id=ark:/67531/metadc1594|pages=5362–5398|title=Initial Decision|first=Joseph|last=Chachkin|date=August 27, 1987|work=FCC Record|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}}</ref> The decision was reaffirmed by the commission in 1990<ref name="Reno900830">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-fcc-gives-reno-grou/183342543/|date=August 30, 1990|page=1E|first=Jim|last=Mitchell|title=FCC gives Reno group approval for TV station|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 24, 2025}}</ref> and by a federal appeals court in 1991.<ref name="Reno910717">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-area-businessman-lu/183342551/|date=July 17, 1991|page=1B|first=Wayne|last=Melton|title=Area businessman Luther Mack, partners get green light for new TV station|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 24, 2025}}</ref>

Channel 11 was announced to come to air first at some point in 1992{{r|Reno910717}} and then in October 1993. Nevada Television Corporation was attempting to decide whether to secure a network affiliation or operate as an independent station. At the time, Fox had just renewed its affiliation agreement with KAME-TV (channel 21) for a two-year term.<ref name="Reno930105">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-new-tv-station-to-a/123751839/|date=January 5, 1993|page=6B|first=Wayne R.|last=Melton|title=New TV station to air in Oct.|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 24, 2025}}</ref> By November 1994, KRXI-TV was pending construction of an interim transmitter facility on Slide Mountain while it attempted to work through the engineering challenges of building a permanent transmitter on Peavine Peak.<ref name="Reno941124">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-channel-11-on-hold/183342580/|date=November 24, 1994|page=1E|first=Wayne R.|last=Melton|title=Channel 11 on hold|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 24, 2025}}</ref>

In February 1995, Kevin O'Brien, the general manager of KTVU in Oakland, California, told ''Broadcasting & Cable'' that he was negotiating with Nevada Television Corporation to provide programming and technical services to KRXI-TV as a step to eventually purchasing it.<ref>{{Cite news|work=Broadcasting & Cable|date=February 20, 1995|title=Cox deals in Reno|id={{pq|1016957317}}|page=81}}</ref> At the time, Nevada Television was also negotiating with another potential buyer.<ref name="Reno950225">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-new-company-new-st/183342629/|date=February 25, 1995|page=1E|first=Wayne R.|last=Melton|title=New company, new station|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 24, 2025}}</ref> That October, the station announced it would replace KAME-TV as the Fox affiliate for Reno, owing to its stronger VHF signal. Cox had agreed to manage KRXI and KAME.<ref name="Reno951028">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-new-fox-tv-station/123751777/|date=October 28, 1995|pages=1F, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-krxi/123751751/ 6F]|title=New Fox TV station prepares to go on the air|first=Wayne|last=Melton|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 24, 2025}}</ref> The addition of KAME to the agreement saved Nevada Television Company millions of dollars, as KAME had preexisting studios; Cox spent $10 million to buy the non-license assets of that station from Ellis Communications.{{r|Reno951202}}

KRXI-TV began broadcasting on December 3, 1995. It temporarily broadcast from Red Peak, north of Reno, until the Peavine Peak facility could be completed. The station offered the 10 p.m. newscast from KTVU with plans to insert Reno-area news into the broadcast.<ref name="Reno951202">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-krxi-tv-takes-to-th/123751659/|date=December 2, 1995|pages=1A, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-krxi-takes-to-the-a/123751708/ 7A]|first=Wayne|last=Melton|title=KRXI-TV takes to the air Sunday|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 24, 2025}}</ref> Cox acquired the station outright in June 1997<ref name="Reno970622">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-tv-station-sold/183342618/|date=June 22, 1997|page=1B|title=TV station sold|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 24, 2025}}</ref> and announced plans to launch a local 10 p.m. newscast by 1999.<ref name="Reno971007">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-fox-affiliate-krxi/183342674/|date=October 7, 1997|pages=1D, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-fox/183342666/ 2D]|first=Wayne|last=Melton|title=Fox affiliate KRXI to start local newscast|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 24, 2025}}</ref> No such newscast materialized, and KRXI continued to offer KTVU news simulcasts<ref name="Reno000322">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-krxi-made-right-de/183342683/|date=March 22, 2000|page=3E|first=Wayne|last=Melton|title=KRXI made 'right decision'|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 24, 2025}}</ref> including, beginning in 2001, KTVU's noon news.<ref name="Reno010427">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-krxi-to-broadcast-n/122829867/|date=April 27, 2001|page=1E|first=Forrest|last=Hartman|title=KRXI to broadcast noon news from San Francisco|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 24, 2025}}</ref> Later, this was supplemented with ''11@11'', an 11 p.m. newscast produced under contract by the Independent News Network of Davenport, Iowa.<ref name="Reno120803">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-fox-11-tv-for-sale/183604630/|date=August 3, 2012|pages=9A, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-fox11/183604615/ 10A]|first=David|last=Jacobs|title=Fox 11 TV for sale|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 24, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=communication_facpubs|issn=21606579|work=Journalism and Mass Communication|volume=3|issue=9|pages=549–562|title=Taking the "Local" out of Local News: Implications for an Informed Public|first=Lee|last=Hood|date=September 2013}}</ref>

===Sinclair ownership=== In 2012, Cox acquired a package of stations in Jacksonville, Florida, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, from Newport Television. It proceeded to put four smaller-market Cox television stations—KRXI-TV (and its agreement to manage KAME-TV); WTOV-TV in Steubenville, Ohio; WJAC-TV in Johnstown, Pennsylvania; and KFOX-TV in El Paso, Texas—plus several smaller-market radio stations up for sale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/cox-puts-four-tv-stations-block-after-acquiring-four-newport-43582 |title=Cox Puts Four TV Stations on Block After Acquiring Four From Newport |first=Michael|last=Malone |date=July 20, 2012 |work=Broadcasting & Cable |access-date=June 2, 2013}}</ref> On February 25, 2013, Cox announced that it would sell the four television stations, and the LMA for KAME, to Sinclair Broadcast Group.<ref name=b&c-saletosinclair>{{cite news|last=Malone|first=Michael|title=Sinclair to Acquire Five Cox Stations|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/local-tv/sinclair-acquire-four-cox-stations/43922|access-date=February 25, 2013|newspaper=Broadcasting & Cable|date=February 25, 2013}}</ref> The sale was finalized on May 2, 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sbgi.net/site_mgr/temp/COX%20Closing_l951bqjg.shtml |website=Sinclair Broadcast Group |title=Sinclair Broadcast Group Closes on Cox Media Group Stations |date=May 2, 2013 |access-date=July 12, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130610153751/http://www.sbgi.net/site_mgr/temp/COX%20Closing_l951bqjg.shtml |archive-date=June 10, 2013 }}</ref>

Sinclair subsequently purchased the non-license assets of a third Reno station, KRNV-DT (channel 4), on November 22, 2013.<ref name=ktvn-krnvsaletosinclair>{{cite news|title=KRNV-TV Sold to Sinclair Broadcast Group|url=http://www.ktvn.com/story/24048093/krnv-tv-sold-to-sinclair-broadcast-group|access-date=November 22, 2013|publisher=KTVN Channel 2 News|date=November 22, 2013|archive-date=November 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126071201/http://www.ktvn.com/story/24048093/krnv-tv-sold-to-sinclair-broadcast-group|url-status=dead}}</ref> After making this acquisition, Sinclair declared that it expected to replace the KTVU news simulcast on KRXI with a newscast produced in Reno.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 25, 2013 |title=Sinclair Buys KRNV Reno For Triple Play |url=https://tvnewscheck.com/uncategorized/article/sinclair-buys-krnv-reno-for-triple-play/ |access-date=August 6, 2025 |website=TVNewsCheck |language=en-US}}</ref> Cox discontinued its agreement to air the morning and noon newscasts on May 14, 2014, with KRXI continuing to air KTVU's 10 p.m. newscast.<ref>{{cite web|last=McConico|first=Matt|url=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=774192335939309|title=KTVU Morning & Noon Newscasts|publisher=KRXI Fox 11 News|date=May 14, 2014|access-date=June 1, 2014}}</ref> This was phased out on August 1, 2023, when KRXI premiered its own half-hour 10 p.m. newscast titled ''Fox 11 News at 10''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://foxreno.com/news/local/krxi-fox-11-launching-northern-nevadas-only-local-10-pm-newscast-on-august-1|access-date=July 31, 2023 |title=KRXI Fox 11 launching northern Nevada's only local 10 p.m. Newscast on Tuesday |date=July 31, 2023 }}</ref>

An X account claiming to belong to KRXI-TV posted a photo in September 2025 that falsely identified a 77-year-old Canadian man as the culprit in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which subsequently went viral online after other users took it as fact. The account was linked to a website that mimicked the station's actual website. A spokeswoman for Sinclair Broadcast Group denounced the fake account and said they were trying to shut it down.<ref name=ckirk>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/technology/charlie-kirk-shooting-false-accusation.html|title= Canadian Man Falsely Named as Charlie Kirk's Shooter on Social Media|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 11, 2025|accessdate=September 11, 2025|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

On December 1, 2025, the NBC affiliation was moved from KRNV-DT to KRXI-TV's second subchannel, while KRNV's main channel flipped to Roar with reasons cited including the continued rollout of ATSC 3.0 in the Reno area.<ref>{{cite news |title=NBC News 4 is moving its over-the-air channel - here's what viewers need to know |url=https://mynews4.com/news/local/nbc-news-4-is-moving-its-over-the-air-channel-heres-what-viewers-need-to-know |access-date=November 28, 2025 |work=News 4 Reno |publisher=Sinclair Broadcast Group |date=November 21, 2025}}</ref>

On January 18, 2026, the KRXI-TV antenna experienced a transmission line failure. KRNV-DT is temporarily broadcasting KRXI-Fox and KRXI-NBC from its transmitter. Sinclair estimated it would take two months to put KRXI-TV back into service.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076f919bdbd0ea019beb7d03812bad&id=25076f919bdbd0ea019beb7d03812bad&goBack=N|title=#287745 Request for Silent Authority of a DTV Station Application|date=January 23, 2026|website=Licensing and Management System|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Margiott |first=Kenzie |date=January 23, 2026 |title=News 4-Fox 11 over-the-air signal moved to Slide Mountain amid ongoing transmitter issues |url=https://mynews4.com/news/local/news-4-fox-11-over-the-air-signal-moved-to-slide-mountain-amid-ongoing-transmitter-issues |access-date=January 23, 2026 |website=KRXI2 |language=en}}</ref>

==Technical information and subchannels== {{notice|'''This station is currently silent.''' For information on current transmission of KRXI-Fox and KRXI-NBC, see {{section link|KRNV-DT|Subchannels}}.}} KRXI-TV is broadcast from a main transmitter on Peavine Peak and a digital replacement translator on Slide Mountain.{{r|FCC-LMS-48360}} The station's signal is multiplexed: {| class="wikitable" |+Subchannels of KRXI-TV<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KRXI#station |title=RabbitEars TV Query for KRXI |website=RabbitEars |access-date=February 15, 2014}}</ref> ! scope = "col" | Channel ! scope = "col" | Res. ! scope = "col" | Aspect ! scope = "col" | Short name ! scope = "col" | Programming |- ! scope = "row" | 11.1 | 720p || rowspan=3|16:9 || FOX11 || Fox |- ! scope = "row" | 11.2 | 1080i || NBC4 || NBC |- ! scope = "row" | 11.3 | 480i || Charge! || Charge! |- style="background-color:#DFEBF6; border-top: 2px solid #003399;" ! scope = "row" | 21.1 | 720p || 16:9 || KNSN-TV || KNSN-TV (Independent) |} {{legend|#DFEBF6|Broadcast on behalf of another station}}

===Analog-to-digital conversion=== KRXI-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 11, on June 12, 2009, the official digital television transition date.<ref name="Reno090401">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-stations-have-gone/183605540/|date=April 1, 2009|page=Dayton Courier 3|title=Stations have gone digital|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 24, 2025}}</ref> under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44, using virtual channel 11.<ref name="Analog to Digital">{{Cite web |date=May 23, 2006 |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 |access-date=August 29, 2021 |publisher=Federal Communications Commission}}</ref> The station relocated its signal from channel 44 to channel 23 in 2018 as a result of the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction.<ref name="Repack Table">{{Cite web|url=http://data.fcc.gov/download/incentive-auctions/Transition_Files/Phase_Assignment_Closing_PN.csv|title=FCC TV Spectrum Phase Assignment Table|format=CSV|website=Federal Communications Commission|date=April 13, 2017|access-date=April 17, 2017|archive-date=April 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417160749/http://data.fcc.gov/download/incentive-auctions/Transition_Files/Phase_Assignment_Closing_PN.csv|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Translators=== KRXI-TV's signal is additionally rebroadcast over the following translators:<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 23, 2021|title=List of TV Translator Input Channels|url=https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/tv-translator-input-channels-07232021.xlsx|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209195336/https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/tv-translator-input-channels-07232021.xlsx|archive-date=December 9, 2021|access-date=December 17, 2021|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}}</ref>

{{div col}} * Battle Mountain: K13JD-D * Beowawe: K24JL-D * Carson City: K17CA-D * Elko: K17DT-D * Ely: K20LD-D * Ely & McGill: K16NB-D * Eureka: K16IZ-D, K29NK-D * Golconda: K33GB-D * Hawthorne: K22FH-D * Litchfield, CA: K32MJ-D * Lund & Preston: K21OK-D * Manhattan: K06KQ-D * Mina–Luning: K32NW-D * Orovada: K32KQ-D * Ruth: K17NU-D * Ryndon: K18GT-D * Schurz: K36FF-D * South Lake Tahoe, CA: K14SD-D * Susanville, CA: K29LT-D * Valmy: K27OM-D, K34FP-D * Walker Lake: K24EY-D * Winnemucca: K23FR-D * Yerington: K19MJ-D {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://foxreno.com/ Official website] * [https://mynews4.com/ KRXI-DT2 "News 4"]

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