KRXI-TV
Encyclopedia
KRXI-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station
for Northwestern Nevada
's Truckee Meadows
licensed to Reno
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 44 (virtual channel
11.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Peavine Peak
. The station can also be seen on Charter
channel 11 and in high definition on digital channel 781. Owned by Cox Enterprises
, KRXI operates MyNetworkTV
affiliate KAME-TV
(owned by Ellis Communications, Inc.) through a local marketing agreement
(LMA). The two share studios on Brookside Court in Reno next to Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Syndicated
programming on this station includes Two and a Half Men
, The Simpsons
, How I Met Your Mother
, and TMZ on TV
among others.
(RTV).
as part of a police chase that took place during the show. After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion on June 12, 2009, KRXI-DT remained on its pre-transition channel (44). However through PSIP, digital television receivers display its virtual channel
as 11 (former analog location).
in Oakland, California
. This includes that outlet's entire weekday morning show (from 4:30 until 9), half-hour broadcast (weekdays at noon), and hour-long prime time news (every night at 10). All newscasts are presented in high definition from KTVU's studios at Jack London Square
in Downtown Oakland
. During the nightly news at 10, there are local weather cut-ins provided by AccuWeather
meteorologists. These forecast segments, taped in advance, originate from headquarters on Science Park Road in State College, Pennsylvania
. KAME in Reno repeats the 10 p.m. newscast every night at 11.
On October 4, 2010, KRXI partnered with the Independent News Network
(INN) to produce a weeknight newscast known as Fox 11 News Eleven at 11
. Promoted on-air as "Local News. Less Time.", it airs in an abbreviated format for fifteen minutes (including commercials). This is unlike traditional broadcasts seen in the time slot on Reno's big three stations. The newscast is taped in advance from INN's facilities on Tremont Avenue in Davenport, Iowa
. The news anchors, meteorologist, and sports anchor are provided by the centralized news operation and other personnel from INN can fill-in as needed.
KXRI maintains two local reporters based in Reno who contribute content to the show. This is the first time the station has ever had a news department of its own even though it is very small with a skeleton crew based out of the station's studios. Fox 11 News Eleven at 11 is streamed live on KRXI's website and there is also on demand video of the weeknight broadcasts.
Anchors
Meteorologists
Sports
Reporters
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for Northwestern Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
's Truckee Meadows
Truckee Meadows
The Truckee Meadows is a valley in Northern Nevada which contains the cities of Reno and Sparks. The valley is approximately 10 miles square.Truckee Meadows is bounded by the Carson Range in the west and the Virginia Range in the east...
licensed to Reno
Reno, Nevada
Reno is the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The city has a population of about 220,500 and is the most populous Nevada city outside of the Las Vegas metropolitan area...
. It broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 44 (virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
11.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Peavine Peak
Peavine Mountain
Peavine Mountain is a mountain located in Washoe County Nevada, at the northwest corner of the Truckee Meadows, forming one of the most dominant geographical features in the Reno/Sparks area...
. The station can also be seen on Charter
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...
channel 11 and in high definition on digital channel 781. Owned by Cox Enterprises
Cox Enterprises
Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, United States, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. He was the Democratic candidate for the President of the United States in the election of 1920...
, KRXI operates MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
affiliate KAME-TV
KAME-TV
KAME-TV is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the Truckee Meadows area of Northwestern Nevada. Licensed to Reno, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 20 from a transmitter on Red Hill in Sun Valley. The station can also be seen on Charter channel 7 and in...
(owned by Ellis Communications, Inc.) through a local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
(LMA). The two share studios on Brookside Court in Reno next to Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on this station includes Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2003. Starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, the show was originally about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper; his uptight brother, Alan; and Alan's growing son, Jake...
, The Simpsons
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
, How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...
, and TMZ on TV
TMZ on TV
TMZ on TV, or simply TMZ and TMZTV, is an American syndicated entertainment and gossip news television show that premiered on September 10, 2007. The program is generally aired on Fox, The CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates, though a majority of the stations that carry the series are Fox affiliates...
among others.
Digital programming
On KRXI-DT2 and Charter digital channel 211 is the Retro Television NetworkRetro Television Network
The Retro Television Network is a system of television stations that airs classic television shows as well as more recently produced programs...
(RTV).
| Channels | Video Display resolution The display resolution of a digital television or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by all different factors in cathode ray tube , flat panel or projection... |
Aspect Aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,... |
Programming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.1 | 720p 720p 720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan... |
16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ... |
Main KRXI programming / FOX |
| 11.2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | KRXI-DT2 "RTV 11.2" |
History
The station began operations in 1996 taking Fox affiliation from KAME which was owned by a separate subsidiary of Cox Enterprises. KRXI-DT2 added RTV on January 7, 2008. The station was depicted in the episode "Drive" of The X-FilesThe X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
as part of a police chase that took place during the show. After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion on June 12, 2009, KRXI-DT remained on its pre-transition channel (44). However through PSIP, digital television receivers display its virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
as 11 (former analog location).
News operation
KRXI simulcasts newscasts from sister station and fellow Fox affiliate KTVUKTVU
KTVU, virtual channel 2 , is the Fox-affiliated television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Licensed to Oakland, California, the station has been owned by Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by market size that is not owned and operated by the...
in Oakland, California
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
. This includes that outlet's entire weekday morning show (from 4:30 until 9), half-hour broadcast (weekdays at noon), and hour-long prime time news (every night at 10). All newscasts are presented in high definition from KTVU's studios at Jack London Square
Jack London Square
Jack London Square is a popular tourist attraction on the waterfront of Oakland, California. Named after the author Jack London and owned by the Port of Oakland, it is the home of stores, restaurants, hotels, an Amtrak station, a ferry dock, the historic Saloon, the cabin Jack London lived in the...
in Downtown Oakland
Downtown Oakland
Downtown Oakland is the central business district of Oakland, California; roughly bounded by 6th Street or the Oakland Estuary on the southwest, Interstate 980 on the northwest, Grand Avenue on the northeast, and Lake Merritt on the east....
. During the nightly news at 10, there are local weather cut-ins provided by AccuWeather
AccuWeather
AccuWeather is an American media company that provides for-profit weather forecasting services worldwide.AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers, then a Penn State graduate student working on degrees in meteorology. His first customer was a gas company in Pennsylvania. While running the...
meteorologists. These forecast segments, taped in advance, originate from headquarters on Science Park Road in State College, Pennsylvania
State College, Pennsylvania
State College is the largest borough in Centre County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is the principal city of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Centre County. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 42,034, and roughly double...
. KAME in Reno repeats the 10 p.m. newscast every night at 11.
On October 4, 2010, KRXI partnered with the Independent News Network
Independent News Network
For the consortium of non-profit investigative news organizations, see .The Independent News Network, also known as INN, is a television news service based in Davenport, Iowa. It syndicates "localized" news programs for television stations across the country with little budget for news...
(INN) to produce a weeknight newscast known as Fox 11 News Eleven at 11
Eleven @ 11:00
Eleven @ 11:00 is the title of the 11:00 p.m. newscast on many local television stations in the United States. The name is based on the fact that the newscast will run for at least eleven minutes before the first commercial break, a summarized weather forecast segment will air during that time, or...
. Promoted on-air as "Local News. Less Time.", it airs in an abbreviated format for fifteen minutes (including commercials). This is unlike traditional broadcasts seen in the time slot on Reno's big three stations. The newscast is taped in advance from INN's facilities on Tremont Avenue in Davenport, Iowa
Davenport, Iowa
Davenport is a city located along the Mississippi River in Scott County, Iowa, United States. Davenport is the county seat of and largest city in Scott County. Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and was named for his friend, George Davenport, a colonel during the Black Hawk...
. The news anchors, meteorologist, and sports anchor are provided by the centralized news operation and other personnel from INN can fill-in as needed.
KXRI maintains two local reporters based in Reno who contribute content to the show. This is the first time the station has ever had a news department of its own even though it is very small with a skeleton crew based out of the station's studios. Fox 11 News Eleven at 11 is streamed live on KRXI's website and there is also on demand video of the weeknight broadcasts.
News team
+ denotes non-KTVU personnelAnchors
- Dave Clark - weekday mornings (4:30 to 7)
- Pam Cook - weekday mornings (4:30 to 7) and business reporter
- Tori Campbell - weekday mornings (7 to 9) and noon
- Julie Haener - weeknights at 10
- Frank Somerville - weeknights at 10
- + Tambri Lane - Assistant News DirectorNews DirectorA news director is an individual at a broadcast station or network or a newspaper who is in charge of the news department. In local news, the news director is typically in charge of the entire news staff, including journalists, news presenters, photographers, copy writers, television producers,...
seen weeknights at 11 - + Bryan Latham - weeknights at 11 and producer
- + Phil Doherty - producer and fill-in weeknights at 11
- + Ryan Bass - producer and fill-in weeknights at 11
- Heather Holmes - weekends and reporter
- Ken Wayne - weekends
- + Marilee Joyce - Eye On Washington host
Meteorologists
- + Jim KosekJim KosekJim Kosek is an American meteorologist who appears on-camera with AccuWeather in State College, Pennsylvania. Kosek primarily forecasts for the Northeast megalopolis, forecasting for New York City; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; and Washington, DC...
- weeknights at 10 - + Bernie Rayno - fill-in weeknights at 10
- + Kyle Dennis - weeknights at 11
- + Ed Russo - fill-in weeknights at 11
- Steve Paulson - weekday mornings and noon
- + Katie Fehlinger - weekends
- + Karah Donovan - weekend fill-in
Sports
- Mark Ibanez - DirectorSports DirectorA sports director is an individual at a television or radio station who is in charge of the sports department. In local news, the sports director is typically the station's primary sportscaster, and often anchors the primetime newscasts on weekdays. They are in charge of sports programming and...
seen weeknights at 10 - + Roland Glembine - weeknights at 11 and producer
- Joe Fonzi - weekends and sports reporter
Reporters
- John Sasaki - nightly at 10 and weekday morning fill-in news anchor
- Bob MacKenzie - "Feature 2" segment producer
- Claudine Wong - weekday mornings and noon
- Lloyd LaCuesta - South Bay Bureau Chief
- Sal Castaneda - weekday morning traffic
- + Shannon Moore - weeknights at 11
- Maureen Naylor - fill-in news anchor
- + Nana Ohkawa - weeknights at 11
- Rob Roth - San FranciscoSan Francisco, CaliforniaSan Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
Bureau - Randy Shandobil - Political Editor
- Craig Heaps - producer and writer
- John Fowler - health and science
- Robert Handa - San JoseSan Jose, CaliforniaSan Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
Bureau - Tom Vacar - Consumer Editor
- Amber Lee - nightly at 10
- Fred Inglis - sports
- Jana Katsuyama
- David Stevenson
- Jade Hernandez
- Ken Pritchett
- Rita Williams
- Mike Mibach
- Kraig Debro