KUBE-TV
 
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Baytown/Houston, Texas United States |
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| City | Baytown, Texas |
| Branding | The KUBE |
| Channels |
Digital: 41 (UHF) Virtual: 57 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | Independent |
| Owner | NRJ TV, LLC (NRJ TV Houston License Co., LLC) |
| Operator | Titan TV Broadcast Group |
| First air date | May 18, 1988 |
| Call letters' meaning | From the KUBE branding or U. Bertram "Bert" Ellis Jr. (partner in Titan Broadcast Management) |
| Former callsigns | KLTJ (1988–1989) KRTW (1989–1994) KVVV (1994–2000) KAZH (2000–2010) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 57 (UHF, 1988–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Religious Independent (1988–1994) Valuevision (1994–2000) FamilyNet (2000–2002) Azteca América (2002–2007) TuVisión (2007–2009) VasalloVision (2009–2010) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 580 m |
| Facility ID | 70492 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°34′15″N 95°30′37″W / 29.57083°N 95.51028°WCoordinates: 29°34′15″N 95°30′37″W / 29.57083°N 95.51028°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | kube57.com |
KUBE-TV, virtual channel 57 (UHF digital channel 41), is an independent television station serving Houston, Texas, United States that is licensed to the suburb of Baytown. The station is owned by NRJ TV, LLC and managed by Titan Broadcast Management. KUBE maintains studio facilities located on Fountain View Drive and Burgoyne Road on the southwest side of Houston, and its transmitter is located at the Richland Transmission Tower in Missouri City.
The station first signed on the air on May 18, 1988 under the callsign KLTJ; it was founded by Eldred Thomas, who had earlier built radio station KVTT-FM (now KKXT) and television station KLTJ (now KSTR-TV) in Dallas. The station originally operated from studios located in Pasadena and a tower in Anahuac, and initially aired religious programs from a variety of sources, including the PTL Satellite Network, Christian Television Network and the Three Angels Broadcasting Network. The low-power signal and distance from Houston led to reception issues in the northern and western portions of the city; as a result, on May 18, 1989, Thomas moved the KLTJ programming and call letters to channel 22 on a tower based in Alvin. With the move of the KLTJ calls to channel 22, channel 57 changed its callsign to KRTW. It later changed its call letters to KVVV (a callsign formerly used on now-defunct channel 16 from 1968 to 1969) in 1994, when it switched to home shopping programming from Valuevision; it then became a FamilyNet affiliate as KAZH in 2000.
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