KRXI-TV
Fox/NBC affiliate in Reno, Nevada, United States
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) and operated with KRNV-DT (channel 4). 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.
By November 1985, the FCC had received 16 applications to build a TV station on channel 11 at Reno. 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.
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