KUHT is a PBS member television station in Houston, Texas, United States.
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14 Facts About KUHT
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KUHT's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.
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KUHT is notable as the first public television station in the United States.
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KUHT purchased a new transmitter that not only enabled the station to broadcast beyond Harris County into its surrounding areas, but to begin broadcasting in color.
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In 1981, KUHT became Houston's first television station to provide closed captioning, and 10 years later, in 1991, it became the first station in Houston to offer Descriptive Video Service audio, and other services for the visually impaired as well as bilingual viewers via a secondary audio program feed.
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In 1982, with assistance from KTRK and then-independent station KRIV, KUHT began operating a new transmitter located near Missouri City – making it one of several television and radio stations that now broadcast from that location.
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KUHT was known on-air as "Houston Public Television" for many years before adopting the "HoustonPBS" moniker in the early 21st century.
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From 1993 into the early 2000s, KUHT's logo did not include the number 8, but used a logo similar to the ones used by Detroit's WTVS and Seattle's KCTS-TV.
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KUHT has almost 600 reels of film in its archives, along with 5,000 videocassettes—some dating back more than 30 years.
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KUHT has produced the following original national productions for PBS:.
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Those two construction permits have expired and KUHT has no plans to attempt the build-outs at this time.
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