KTBC, channel 7, is the Fox owned-and-operated television station in Austin, Texas. Its studios are located in downtown Austin at the corner of Tenth and Brazos Streets (a block away from the Texas State Capitol Building), and its transmitter is located in the city.
Although KTBC's analog signal is on channel 7 over-the-air, it airs on cable channel 2 on most cable systems in Austin. This is because when the Johnson family established the first c...
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KTBC, channel 7, is the Fox owned-and-operated television station in Austin, Texas. Its studios are located in downtown Austin at the corner of Tenth and Brazos Streets (a block away from the Texas State Capitol Building), and its transmitter is located in the city.
Although KTBC's analog signal is on channel 7 over-the-air, it airs on cable channel 2 on most cable systems in Austin. This is because when the Johnson family established the first cable system in Austin, interference from the strong KTBC broadcast signal overpowered the signal carried on the analog cable channel 7.
KTBC signed on the air on November 27, 1952. It was originally owned by the Texas Broadcasting Company (hence the call letters) which was in turn owned by then-Senator Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird, alongside KTBC radio (AM 590 and FM 93.7). As the city's first television station, it carried all four major networks at the time: ABC, CBS, NBC and the now-defunct DuMont Network. KTBC was primarily a CBS...
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