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| Founded | August 21, 1992 |
First air date | December 3, 1995 (1995-12-03) |
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Call sign meaning | Reno and XI (Roman numeral 11) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 48360 |
| ERP | 400kW |
| HAAT | 854 m (2,802 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°35′23″N119°55′41″W / 39.58972°N 119.92806°W /39.58972; -119.92806 |
| Translator(s) | see§ Translators |
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KRXI-TV (channel 11) is atelevision station inReno, Nevada, United States, affiliated withFox andNBC. It is owned bySinclair Broadcast Group alongside sports-formattedindependent stationKNSN-TV (channel 21). Sinclair also provides certain services toKRNV-DT (channel 4) underjoint sales andshared services agreements (JSA/SSA) withCunningham 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 onPeavine Peak andSlide 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 withCox 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-ownedKTVU inOakland, 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.
TheFederal Communications Commission (FCC) added channel 11 atReno—the fifthVHF allotment in the city—to the Television Table of Assignments on October 15, 1984, rejecting a counterproposal by the owners ofKTVN andKOLO-TV to instead add channel 11 toRedding, California;KHSL-TV inChico opposed the counterproposal on grounds of potential interference with its channel 12 facility and with community-owned translators and cable services.[2]
By November 1985, the FCC had received 16 applications to build a TV station on channel 11 at Reno.[3] In 1987, FCCadministrative law judge Joseph Chachkin favored the Nevada Television Corporation, a group of businessmen headed byMcDonald's franchise owner Luther Mack, over five remaining contenders for the permit. He favored the group's ownership structure and proposed coverage[4] The decision was reaffirmed by the commission in 1990[5] and by a federal appeals court in 1991.[6]
Channel 11 was announced to come to air first at some point in 1992[6] and then in October 1993. Nevada Television Corporation was attempting to decide whether to secure a network affiliation or operate as anindependent station. At the time,Fox had just renewed its affiliation agreement withKAME-TV (channel 21) for a two-year term.[7] By November 1994, KRXI-TV was pending construction of an interim transmitter facility onSlide Mountain while it attempted to work through the engineering challenges of building a permanent transmitter onPeavine Peak.[8]
In February 1995, Kevin O'Brien, the general manager ofKTVU inOakland, California, toldBroadcasting & 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.[9] At the time, Nevada Television was also negotiating with another potential buyer.[10] That October, the station announced it would replace KAME-TV as the Fox affiliate for Reno, owing to its strongerVHF signal. Cox had agreed to manage KRXI and KAME.[11] 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 fromEllis Communications.[12]
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.[12] Cox acquired the station outright in June 1997[13] and announced plans to launch a local 10 p.m. newscast by 1999.[14] No such newscast materialized, and KRXI continued to offer KTVU news simulcasts[15] including, beginning in 2001, KTVU's noon news.[16] Later, this was supplemented with11@11, an 11 p.m. newscast produced under contract by theIndependent News Network ofDavenport, Iowa.[17][18]
In 2012, Cox acquired a package of stations inJacksonville, Florida, andTulsa, Oklahoma, fromNewport Television. It proceeded to put four smaller-market Cox television stations—KRXI-TV (and its agreement to manage KAME-TV);WTOV-TV inSteubenville, Ohio;WJAC-TV inJohnstown, Pennsylvania; andKFOX-TV inEl Paso, Texas—plus several smaller-market radio stations up for sale.[19] On February 25, 2013, Cox announced that it would sell the four television stations, and the LMA for KAME, toSinclair Broadcast Group.[20] The sale was finalized on May 2, 2013.[21]
Sinclair subsequently purchased the non-license assets of a third Reno station,KRNV-DT (channel 4), on November 22, 2013.[22] After making this acquisition, Sinclair declared that it expected to replace the KTVU news simulcast on KRXI with a newscast produced in Reno.[23] 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.[24] This was phased out on August 1, 2023, when KRXI premiered its own half-hour 10 p.m. newscast titledFox 11 News at 10.[25]
AnX 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 theassassination 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.[26]
On December 1, 2025, the NBC affiliation was moved from KRNV-DT to KRXI-TV's second subchannel, while KRNV's main channel flipped toRoar with reasons cited including the continued rollout ofATSC 3.0 in the Reno area.[27]
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.[28][29]
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KRXI-TV is broadcast from a main transmitter onPeavine Peak and a digital replacement translator onSlide Mountain.[1] The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 11.1 | 720p | 16:9 | FOX11 | Fox |
| 11.2 | 1080i | NBC4 | NBC | |
| 11.3 | 480i | Charge! | Charge! | |
| 21.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KNSN-TV | KNSN-TV (Independent) |
KRXI-TV shut down its analog signal, overVHF channel 11, on June 12, 2009, the officialdigital television transition date.[31] under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transitionUHF channel 44, usingvirtual channel 11.[32] The station relocated its signal from channel 44 to channel 23 in 2018 as a result of the2016 United States wireless spectrum auction.[33]
KRXI-TV's signal is additionally rebroadcast over the following translators:[34]
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