WXIN

:For the real-life Fox affiliate with the same calls in Indianapolis, see on Wikipedia.
 (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Eastville, Indiana, United States, and serving the Baconville market, affiliated with Fox. It is owned by the JD Broadcasting Properties. Its studios are located at West 21st Street, and its transmitters are located at a transmitter farm in 24 Glendale Drive.
== History ==
In 1954, James Whitfield Jr, a journalist for the Baconville Weekly Journal, became unsatisfied with the quality of news they were putting out on the newspaper’s station, WKL (now WBVB). He travelled to Indianapolis to purchase broadcasting equipment, and recruited staff from Baconville once he returned home. He then formed the media company Whitfield Broadcasting, and applied for a TV license on channel 4 (the only open and uncontested channel in the area) with the WXIN call letters. 
His request was immediately approved, and the station signed on at noon on May 19th, 1954. Shortly after the sign-on, there was an equipment malfunction at the studios that the station was using at the time, which kept the station off the air for the rest of the day. This gave the opportunity for Whitfield Broadcasting to create programming for the station while it was still off the air. WXIN signed on again a week later, on May 26.
As the market grew larger, Cox Television saw an opportunity to own more stations by buying Whitfield Broadcasting. The deal was put off for a few years after the proposal, but in 1965, the company’s assets finally got sold to Cox.
In 1968, WXIN advertised itself as the “most colorful station in Baconville”, as 100% of its programming was in color as soon as it switched from all-black-and-white broadcasting. The station also used a new, colorful 4 logo to get more people to watch their color programming.
In 1983, Metromedia traded its station in Baconville, WKL-TV for WXIN, because WXIN was, at the time, the leading independent station in the market. This soon made WXIN a charter affiliate of the new FOX network, the successor to Metromedia.
In 1993, Metromedia agreed to sell the station to Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
In 1995, WXIN almost became an NBC affiliate after New World Communications wanted to trade WCNT with WALA and make it an affiliate of FOX. 
In 2018, WXIN almost got auctioned off due to the station not airing the “must-carry” segments and promos that Sinclair produces. These segments were believed to be right-wing propaganda that Sinclair had a history of forcing their stations to carry.
”Staying neutral is a big part of who we are at the FOX 4 newsroom, and it’s a shame that our station’s owners force us to say things that don’t follow our principles.”
-Stacey Shaw, FOX 4 Anchor in a leaked private YouTube video entitled “Our Message To Sinclair”
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