KHOU-TV is the local CBS affiliate in Houston, Texas, owned by Belo Corporation. It broadcasts on Channel 11, and its transmitter is located in Missouri City, Texas at an antenna farm, along with all other Houston broadcast stations.
KHOU signed on as KGUL-TV (as in gulf or as in "seagull" ), licensed to Galveston, on March 23, 1953. It was the second television station to launch in the Houston area after KPRC-TV. One of the original investors in...
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KHOU-TV is the local CBS affiliate in Houston, Texas, owned by Belo Corporation. It broadcasts on Channel 11, and its transmitter is located in Missouri City, Texas at an antenna farm, along with all other Houston broadcast stations.
KHOU signed on as KGUL-TV (as in gulf or as in "seagull" ), licensed to Galveston, on March 23, 1953. It was the second television station to launch in the Houston area after KPRC-TV. One of the original investors in the station was actor James Stewart, along with a small group of other Galveston investors.
In June 1959, it changed its calls to KHOU and moved the city of license to Houston. The FCC license listed both the Houston and Galveston service areas for a time. On April 24, 1960, the station moved to its present location just outside downtown Houston on Allen Parkway. To this date, KHOU is the only TV station in Houston to have its primary studios close to the downtown area.
In 1956, the original owners sold Channel 11 to the Whitney Corporation ...
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