KUHT
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| Houston, Texas | |
| Branding | HoustonPBS |
| Slogan | The Channel That Changes You |
| Channels | 8 (VHF) analog, 9 (VHF) digital |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | University of Houston |
| Founded | 1953 |
| Call letters meaning | K University of Houston Television |
| Former affiliations | NET (1953–1970) |
| Website | www.houstonpbs.org |
KUHT or HoustonPBS (VHF channel 8 in Houston, Texas) is a PBS member television station operated by the University of Houston. It also serves as the PBS member station for Beaumont.
The station began broadcasting on May 24, 1953 as the first public television station in the United States, and one of the earliest stations of NET, National Educational Television, which eventually merged into PBS.
It was known on-air as "Houston Public Television" for many years before adopting the "HoustonPBS" moniker in the early 21st century.
KUHT shares broadcast facilities with public radio station KUHF in the Melcher Center for Public Broadcasting on the University of Houston campus.
Beginning in 1953, the University of Houston offered the first televised college credit classes via KUHT. The live telecasts ran from 13 to 15 hours each week, making up about 38 percent of the program schedule. Most courses aired at night so that students who worked during the day could watch them. By the mid-1960s, with about one-third of the station's programming devoted to education, more than 100,000 semester hours had been taught on KUHT.[1]
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Universities: University of Houston | UH–Clear Lake | UH–Downtown | UH–Victoria Satellite campuses: UHS at Cinco Ranch | UHS at Sugar Land Media: KUHF | KUHT | The Daily Cougar | The Dateline Downtown | The Flame | The UHCLIDIAN |
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KPRC 2 (NBC) - KUHT 8 (PBS) - KHOU 11 (CBS) - KTRK 13 (ABC) - KETH 14 (TBN) - KTXH 20 (MNTV) - KVQT 21 (Span. Rel.) - KLTJ 22 (DS) - KRIV 26 (Fox) - KCVH 30 (LAT TV) - KVIT 34 (Almavision) - KHCW 39 (The CW) - KHLM 43 (Multimedios) - KXLN 45 (UNI) - KTMD 47 (TEL) - KPXB 49 / KBPX 33 (ION) - KNWS 51 (Ind) - KTBU 55 (A1) - KAZH 57 / KHMV 28 / KVVV 53 (AZA) - KZJL 61 (Ind) - KFTH 67 (TFU) |
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| Broadcast television in the Beaumont market (Nielsen DMA #140) | ||
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KBTV 4 (NBC) - KFDM 6 (CBS/The CW on DT2) - KUHT 8 (PBS) - KBMT 12 (ABC) - KEBQ 22 (MNTV) - KVHP 29 (FOX) - KITU 34 (TBN) - KUIL-LP 64 (FOX) |
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| PBS Member Stations in the state of Texas | |
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KACV 2 (Amarillo) - KTXT 5 (Lubbock) - KUHT 8 (Houston) - KLRN 9 (San Antonio) - KCOS 13 (El Paso) - KERA 13 (Dallas) - KAMU 15 (College Station) - KEDT 16 (Corpus Christi) - KLRU 18 (Austin) - KWBU 34 (Waco) - KPBT 36 (Odessa) - KDTN-DT 43.2 (Denton) - KNCT 46 (Belton) - KMBH 60 (Harlingen) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetwork TV, NBC, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Religious, Other English and Other Spanish stations in Texas | |
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