KTRK-TV, channel 13, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Houston, Texas, USA. KTRK's studios and offices are located in the Upper Kirby district of Houston, and its transmitter is located in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.
The station grew out of the VHF "freeze", when three entities vying for the channel 13 assignment, including the Houston Chronicle...
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KTRK-TV, channel 13, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Houston, Texas, USA. KTRK's studios and offices are located in the Upper Kirby district of Houston, and its transmitter is located in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.
The station grew out of the VHF "freeze", when three entities vying for the channel 13 assignment, including the Houston Chronicle, decided to merge as Houston Consolidated Television. They bought the studio facilities of the defunct KNUZ-TV (channel 39), a DuMont affiliate which had gone dark. As the Chronicle was the largest shareholder in the company, the station went on the air on November 20, 1954 as KTRK-TV, derived from the Chronicle's radio station, KTRH. The station was an ABC affiliate; during the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.
The original studio facilities were located at 4513 Cullen Blvd (at the defunct Texas...
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