On Mother’s Day, WXIN anchor Jenny Anchondo celebrates a unique bond with her mom as the two women essentially grew up together. When Anchondo’s mom Jeanette was three months pregnant with her, she was struck by a falling tree and suffered significant mental damage.

The freak accident left Jeanette with total amnesia and the loss of many basic skills, including walking and talking. Jenny and Jeanette described their unique bond in a moving piece from the Indianapolis Star this weekend.

“Usually, you’re born to a mother with all these preconceived notions about life, and it was like we were two people going through life together,” Jenny told the Star. Read more

Seeing even more potential in the early risers, late shifters, and insomniacs of the Indianapolis area, WXIN will now begin its early morning newscast even earlier. Beginning in January, the Fox-affiliate will begin its day at 4:00 a.m.

WXIN has seen positive audience gains since it expanded its morning news to 4:30 a.m. earlier this year and now it hopes to make an even bigger imprint with a six-hour programming stretch on weekday mornings, from 4:00 a.m. to 10:00.

“We have seen viewers waking up earlier and watching earlier, ever since we moved up our start time to 4:30am,” said Jerry Martin, WXIN’s general manager. It appears that Martin’s objective is to provide enough early morning time to build viewers for the station’s big competition against NBC’s “Today” from 7:00-10:00 a.m.
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