WPDS-TV Channel 59 (now WXIN), Indianapolis - Inaugural Sign-on 1 February 1984

Featured here is a fifteen and one-half minute video bringing forth the launch of Indianapolis' current Fox 59. It commences with a twenty-three second countdown to the legal sign-on announcement. Following that is a seven-minute video piece chronicling the trials and tribulations of launching a new television station, including the erecting of the WPDS-TV tower during a unusually cold December in 1983. After this comes the SSB video, which is followed by an three-minute address by Roman Catholic Achbishop Edward T. O'Meara on the subject of peace. Then we are greeted by two unidentified WPDS-TV personalities who speak briefly about the new Channel 59 and introduce a music video montage featuring clips of WPDS-TV's programming and scenes of downtown Indianapolis. The clip ends with the final thirty seconds of that evening's 59 Headline News announcing the birth of a baby by the wife of news photographer Larry Deal only an hour or so after the station's birth earlier that evening.

For whatever reasons, however, WPDS-TV was sold the following year (1985), and the new owners rechristened the station with the current call letters, WXIN. In 1986 WXIN became a charter affiliate of the new Fox Television Network. The station has underwent numerous turnovers in ownership. Its current licensee is Nexstar Media Group.

This video was posted on YouTube previously, but had disappeared. It has now been re-posted by SignOffsGuy.