KUHT
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Houston, Texas United States |
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| Branding | Houston Public Media, TV 8 |
| Channels |
Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 8 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner |
University of Houston (University of Houston System) |
| First air date | May 25, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning |
University of Houston Television |
| Sister station(s) | KUHF |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 8 (VHF, 1953–2009) Digital: 9 (VHF, 2001–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
NET (1953–1970) V-me (DT3; 2007–2017) |
| Transmitter power | 500 kW |
| Height | 578.6 m |
| Facility ID | 69269 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°34′28″N 95°29′37″W / 29.57444°N 95.49361°WCoordinates: 29°34′28″N 95°29′37″W / 29.57444°N 95.49361°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | houstonpublicmedia.org |
KUHT, virtual channel and VHF digital channel 8, is a PBS member television station located in Houston, Texas, United States. The first public television station in the United States, it is owned by and licensed to the University of Houston System. Along with NPR radio station KUHF, it forms Houston Public Media. KUHT maintains studio and office facilities are located in the Melcher Center for Public Broadcasting on the campus of the University of Houston, and its transmitter is located in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County (near Missouri City).
As the Beaumont–Port Arthur and Victoria markets do not have PBS member stations of their own, KUHT serves as a default station as it is available on cable and satellite providers in both markets.
The station was established by Dr. John C. Schwarzwalder, a professor in the Radio-Television Department at the University of Houston, and first signed on the air on May 25, 1953 as the first station to broadcast under an educational non-profit license in the United States, and one of the earliest member stations of National Educational Television, which eventually merged into PBS. KUHT originally operated from the Ezekiel W. Cullen Building on the University of Houston campus. Its dedication ceremonies were broadcast on June 8 of that year. The station's initial cost was an investment of US$350,000, and had an annual operating budget of about US$110,000. Originally licensed to both the University of Houston (UH) and the Houston Independent School District, UH became its sole licensee in 1959.
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