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KHOU-TV

KHOU
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Houston, Texas
United States
Branding KHOU 11 (general)
KHOU 11 News (newscasts)
Slogan KHOU Stands for Houston
Channels Digital: 11 (VHF)
Virtual: 11 ()
Affiliations
Owner Tegna
(KHOU-TV, Inc.)
First air date March 23, 1953; 63 years ago (1953-03-23)
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
Former callsigns
  • KGUL-TV (1953–1959)
  • KHOU-TV (1959–2009)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 11 (VHF, 1953–2009)
  • Digital:
  • 31 (UHF, 1998–2009)
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°W / 29.56111; -95.50111Coordinates: 29°33′40″N 95°30′4″W / 29.56111°N 95.50111°W / 29.56111; -95.50111
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.khou.com

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.


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