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Houston, Texas United States |
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| Branding | "Houston's CW" (general) "NewsFix" (newscasts) |
| Slogan | "Doing Our Own Thing" |
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Digital: 38 (UHF) (to move to 34 (UHF)) Virtual: 39 () |
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| Affiliations | The CW |
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Tribune Broadcasting (sale to Sinclair Broadcast Group pending) (KIAH, LLC) |
| First air date | January 6, 1967 |
| Call letters' meaning | IAH = IATA airport code for George Bush Intercontinental Airport |
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| Transmitter power | 1000 kW 922 kW (CP) |
| Height | 582 m (1,909 ft) 580 m (1,903 ft) (CP) |
| Facility ID | 23394 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°34′6″N 95°29′57″W / 29.56833°N 95.49917°WCoordinates: 29°34′6″N 95°29′57″W / 29.56833°N 95.49917°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | cw39.com/ |
KIAH, virtual channel 39 (UHF digital channel 38), is a CW-affiliated television station licensed to Houston, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of Tribune Media. KIAH maintains studio facilities adjacent to the Westpark Tollway on the southwest side of Houston. The transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated Fort Bend County. The station is also available on Comcast Xfinity and AT&T U-verse channel 5, and in high definition on Xfinity digital channel 605 and U-verse channel 1005.
The station first signed on the air on January 6, 1967 as an independent station under the callsign KHTV (standing for "Houston TeleVision"). Prior to its debut, the channel 39 allocation in Houston belonged to the now-defunct DuMont affiliate KNUZ-TV, which existed during the mid-1950s. Channel 39 was originally owned by the WKY Television System, a subsidiary of the Oklahoma Publishing Company, publishers of Oklahoma City's major daily newspaper, The Daily Oklahoman. After the company's namesake station, WKY-TV, was sold in 1976, the WKY Television System became Gaylord Broadcasting, named for the family that owned Oklahoma Publishing.
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