KTRK-TV
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Houston, Texas United States |
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| Branding | ABC 13 or 13 (general) 13 Eyewitness News (newscasts) ABC 13 Eyewitness News (newscasts, secondary) |
| Slogan | Houston's News Leader |
| Channels |
Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 13 () |
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Disney/ABC (KTRK Television, Inc.) |
| First air date | November 20, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning |
K-The Rice Hotel (The "K" substitutes for "H") Derived from former sister radio station KTRH Keep Tuned Right Here |
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| Transmitter power | 32.4 kW |
| Height | 588 m |
| Facility ID | 35675 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°34′27″N 95°29′37″W / 29.57417°N 95.49361°WCoordinates: 29°34′27″N 95°29′37″W / 29.57417°N 95.49361°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | abc13 |
KTRK-TV, virtual channel and VHF digital channel 13, is an ABC owned-and-operated television station located in Houston, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company (through its Disney-ABC Television Group division). KTRK maintains studio facilities located on Bissonnet Street in Houston's Upper Kirby district, and its transmitter is located in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County (near Missouri City).
The station grew out of the Federal Communications Commission-imposed VHF "freeze", when three entities vying for the channel 13 assignment, including the Houston Chronicle, decided to merge as Houston Consolidated Television. The group also bought the studio facilities of KNUZ-TV (channel 39), a DuMont affiliate which had gone dark. The station first signed on the air on November 20, 1954 as KTRK-TV; as the Chronicle was the largest shareholder in the company, the callsign was derived from the Chronicle's radio station, KTRH. The station has been aligned with ABC since its debut; during the late 1950s, the station also had a brief affiliation with the NTA Film Network. The station's original studio facilities were located at 4513 Cullen Boulevard (at the defunct Texas Television Center district on the University of Houston campus); this studio later housed KHTV (now KIAH, the present channel 39) and PBS member station KUHT (channel 8).
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