KPRC-TV is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Graham Media Group.
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KPRC-TV is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Graham Media Group.
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In March 1972, KPRC-TV moved into a new state-of-the-art studio facility in the Sharpstown area where it operated from for 45 years.
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In January 2015, KPRC-TV dropped the "Local" and began simply calling itself "Channel 2".
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In December 2015, KPRC-TV broke ground on a new studio, behind the old studio in the employee parking lot, on the same Sharpstown site.
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Since October 1994, KPRC-TV has used the familiar "Lone Star 2" logo, which was modified in 2004 for HD.
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KPRC-TV was one of the first stations to air telethons, raising $28,000 for the American Cancer Society in 1950.
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Indeed, KPRC-TV was the original Houston affiliate for Geraldo, which the station carried from its 1987 debut until complaints from viewers and even station management over its content led KPRC-TV to drop the show in 1990.
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KPRC-TV served as the team's over-the-air flagship station from 1973 to 1978.
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Appropriate for a station with roots in the Houston Post, KPRC-TV has long been a very news-intensive station, and in particular one with a history of innovation in television journalism.
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KPRC-TV was the first station in Houston to use weather radar for its weather reports, to use videotape for field reporting, to have a fully staffed news bureau in Austin, to hire female and African American reporters, and to hire a Hispanic news anchor for an English-language newscast.
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Two years later, KPRC-TV constructed a new newsroom within one of its three studios, utilizing the newsroom as a backdrop that was similar to the "newsplex" set used by Miami Fox affiliate WSVN, itself a former NBC affiliate which became a ratings leader in that market after losing its NBC affiliation and switching to a similar tabloid-style format.
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In 2004, KPRC-TV retitled its newscasts as Local 2 News, putting the station in line with its fellow Post-Newsweek stations which adopted similar branding and perhaps to avoid confusion with News 24 Houston, a 24-hour local cable news channel owned by Time Warner Cable and Belo which shut down just weeks before KPRC-TV's transition was complete.
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KPRC-TV was hit with a 2006 boycott by civil rights activist Quanell X and other African American leaders following the demotion of African American anchors Linda Lorelle and Khambrel Marshall from its evening broadcasts.
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However, since Nielsen Media Research began using Local People Meters in the Houston market in October 2007, KPRC-TV began to see gains in most timeslots, while its competition saw declines.
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On July 19,2008, during its 6 pm newscasts, KPRC-TV began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition in the run up to NBC's coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Gutierrez, in between his stints for KPRC-TV, was a Fox News Channel correspondent and an anchor for WBBM-TV in Chicago, as well as for NBC owned-and-operated station KXAS-TV in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
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KPRC-TV had carried This TV from the start of 2009 until May 28,2018, on its second subchannel, being one of the network's longest-tenured affiliates before leaving This TV on that day.
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KPRC-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, on June 12,2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.
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