News Operation
WXIN broadcasts a total of 60 hours of local newscasts each week (with 10 hours on weekdays, and five hours each on weekends); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the largest local newscast output among the Indianapolis market's broadcast television stations and the largest of any station (and Fox affiliate) in the state of Indiana. It is also the highest weekly newscast output among Tribune Broadcasting's stations, ahead of Los Angeles CW affiliate KTLA by four hours.
In 1984, channel 59 ran a short-lived hour-long primetime newscast called 59 Headline News that was anchored by Ken Owen (later with CBS affiliate WISH-TV and ABC affiliate WRTV). The station ran only news updates for another six years, until WXIN began producing a 10 p.m. newscast once again in 1991, which later expanded from 35 to 60 minutes on April 17, 2006. The station launched a weekday morning newscast in 1999, which also expanded from three to four hours on January 2, 2008. On September 15, 2008, the station debuted half-hour midday newscast at 11 a.m. on weekdays.
From January 2, 2008 to September 18, 2009, WTTV simulcast the 4:30-6 a.m. portion of WXIN's morning news (which has since moved to that station's This TV-affiliated second digital subchannel). In addition, the station broadcasts live half-hour editions of the 10 p.m. newscast on WTTV on nights when Fox Sports telecasts are scheduled to air on the station past 10 p.m. (under the repurposed title News at Ten, used in name only as the Fox 59 News logo bug is shown during WTTV's telecasts of the program); an additional half-hour live newscast then airs following the game on WXIN. Weekday morning meteorologist Jim O'Brien is the only member of WXIN's weather staff (and one of four Indianapolis television meteorologists) that has a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal of Approval from the American Meteorological Society, which he earned in July 2007.
On September 21, 2009, WXIN expanded its morning newscast to 4½ hours from 4:30-9 a.m., and launched an hour-long 4 p.m. newscast (WXIN's Fox-affiliated sister stations owned by Tribune began increasing their news output during September 2009, as the network encouraged its affiliates and stations to do so for the past decade). On November 1, 2009, WXIN became the fourth Indianapolis television station and the sixth station in Indiana to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition, with WXIN adopting the logo and graphic scheme used by Fox's owned-and-operated stations and other Fox affiliates (including select others owned by Tribune Broadcasting). The 11 a.m. newscast was dropped on January 4, 2010, as the station once again expanded its weekday morning newscast with one hour added the program at 9 a.m.
WXIN launched Indysportsnation.com in April 2009, with sports segments featured on WXIN's newscasts rebranded under the "IndySportsNation" banner in accordance. The station produces a weekend sports wrap-up program (that is broadcast in front of a live studio audience) called IndySportsNation Overtime, which runs for a half-hour at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sundays, along with a 25-minute version at 10:35 p.m. on Fridays (which is retitled Fast Break Friday or Football Friday Night on Fox during the high school basketball and football seasons). On August 21, 2010, WXIN launched a three-hour weekend morning newscast, making it Tribune's first television station and the first Fox affiliate in Indiana to carry a morning news program on weekends; three weeks later on September 13, 2010, the station also debuted an hour-long weeknight news broadcast at 5 p.m., which competes with hour-long newscasts on WRTV, WISH-TV and WTHR.
The weekend morning newscasts expanded to four hours on January 8, 2011, with the addition of a 9 a.m. hour. On January 10, 2011, WXIN also expanded its weekday morning newscast to six hours with an additional half-hour at 4 a.m. On September 10, 2012, the station debuted an hour-long 6 p.m. newscast, creating a three-hour early evening local news block from 4-7 p.m.
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