KHOU is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS.
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16 Facts About KHOU
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In 1998, KHOU became the first television station in the market to begin broadcasting a high definition digital signal.
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KHOU was retained by the latter company, which would be named Tegna.
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KHOU is the third commercial station in Houston to utilize a part of the UH campus for its facilities, after ill-fated KNUZ-TV from 1953 to 1954 and KTRK-TV from its 1954 launch until its 1961 move to its current studios in the Upper Kirby district.
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On November 16,2017, KHOU officially announced it would not return to the Allen Parkway facility; the building would eventually be sold to an affiliate of Service Corporation International and was eventually demolished the following May In December 2017, KHOU announced that it would open a secondary street-side studio at the George R Brown Convention Center along Avenida Houston.
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On March 29,2018, KHOU announced that it had signed a lease for 43,000 square feet of space at 5718 Westheimer Road near Uptown Houston.
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Outside of local programming, KHOU's syndicated offerings include Wheel of Fortune and Daily Blast Live, a Tegna-produced program.
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KHOU serves as the local television broadcaster of Houston's annual Thanksgiving Day parade, the H-E-B Holiday Parade.
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KHOU's best known former on-air staffers include former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, NBC News correspondent Dennis Murphy, newswomen Linda Ellerbee and Jessica Savitch, and sports anchors Jim Nantz, Harry Kalas and Ron Franklin.
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In 1970, KHOU had boasted of the top-rated news team in Houston, led by anchorman Ron Stone, weatherman Sid Lasher and sports anchor Ron Franklin.
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In January 1989, KHOU revamped the appearance of its newscasts, with an image campaign that included full-page ads in the Houston Chronicle and Post, as well as an on-air promotional campaign that focused more on ordinary citizens throughout Greater Houston than on its news team.
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On February 4,2007, following CBS' coverage of Super Bowl XLI, KHOU began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, becoming the first station in the market to do so.
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In June 2019, KHOU rebranded its 4 pm newscast as The 411, emphasizing a conceptual format and on-air graphics style similar to that of its morning newscast.
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On September 26,2011, KHOU began broadcasting Bounce TV on its second digital subchannel upon the network's launch.
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KHOU discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 11, on the morning of June 12,2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.
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