Houston, Texas United States |
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Branding | KHOU 11 (general) KHOU 11 News (newscasts) |
Slogan | KHOU Stands for Houston |
Channels |
Digital: 11 (VHF) Virtual: 11 () |
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Owner |
Tegna (KHOU-TV, Inc.) |
First air date | March 23, 1953 |
Call letters' meaning | Dual meaning: HOUston HOU = airport code for William P. Hobby Airport |
Sister station(s) | WFAA, KVUE, KENS, KCEN-TV, KAGS-LD, KYTX, KBMT, KIII, KIDY, KXVA |
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Transmitter power | 25 kW |
Height | 593 m |
Facility ID | 34529 |
Transmitter coordinates | 29°33′40″N 95°30′4″W / 29.56111°N 95.50111°WCoordinates: 29°33′40″N 95°30′4″W / 29.56111°N 95.50111°W |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
Website | www |
KHOU, virtual channel and VHF digital channel 11, is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Houston, Texas, United States. The station is owned by Tegna. KHOU maintains studio facilities located along Allen Parkway in the Neartown neighborhood (near Downtown Houston), and its transmitter is located in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County (near Missouri City). As of the 2016-17 television season, KHOU is the second-largest CBS affiliate by market size that is not owned and operated by the network after sister station WUSA in Washington, D.C..
The station first signed on the air on March 23, 1953 as KGUL-TV (as in gulf or as in "seagull" ); it was founded by Paul Taft of the Taft Broadcasting Co. (no relation to the Cincinnati, Ohio-based Taft Broadcasting Company). Originally licensed to Galveston, it was the second television station to debut in the Houston market (after KPRC-TV, channel 2). One of the original investors in the station was actor James Stewart, along with a small group of other Galveston investors.