Houston Radio History

  The publication known today as TV Guide was being published in a few markets in the northeast by this time, but it would be another two ye...

From Mike McGuff - near the intersection of Westheimer and Chimney Rock, in the Galleria area.

These photos (published in the Chronicle ) show the facility on Post Oak Rd., about where the Williams Waterwall is now, when the building ...

Mark Whitehead of KWHI and KTTX , Brenham, has sent along these pictures of KNUZ-TV , taken in 1953 by his dad, Tom Whitehead, Jr.  Mark...

As reported today by the Chronicle , the long time anchor will be memorialized in brick and mortar. Congratulations to Dave and thanks for...

From the University of Houston Digital Library, 346 pictures and videos of the history of Channel 8 over the decades, including people, bui...

Long-time Houston columnist (the Post and the Chronicle ) Leon Hale published this accoun t of his early experiences with television severa...

From the Rice archives... a feature on KTRU with some pictures and lots of comments.  Take a look at that archives link.  How many statio...

From YouTube, a compilation of historic broadcast videos from KHTV, ca. 1967-85 (one segment is as late as 1992).

I didn't see any advance publicity and missed the first broadcast but will catch the re-broadcast tonight.  TV Guide Listings

I've been contacted very belatedly about this and thought I would pass it on. Tonight, Fri 11/18/11, at 8 pm on Channel 8, Er...

Celebrating 45 years at KTRK-TV on Wednesday, November 9, 2011, and now a Houston institution. A tribute from the Chronicle , a bit of his...

I've heard from Bud Buschardt, a graduate in RTV from the University of Houston who worked at KUHF and KUHT and went on to a long care...

I found this video clip on HAIF of a recent Channel 2 reunion. Never having worked at 2 nor in television anywhere in Houston, I recognize...

....of a Houston viewer, Friday, August 4, 1961. Published in the Houston Now section of the Houston Post , Sunday, July 30, 1961.

When Channel 11 signed on in 1953, the transmitter was located at what was then Arcadia, described as half way between Galveston and Houston...

Larry Kane was a dj in Houston in the 1950s who had a popular dance show on Channel 13 on Saturday afternoons, Houston's version of Amer...

Correspondent Andrew Brown has come through again with a great picture of the KPRC radio and TV complex on Post Oak about where the William...

Most people probably never would have heard of Houston's short-lived first television station were it not for a widespread story of its ...

Dan Ammerman One time anchor of the Channel 13 News, before the long tenure of Dave Ward. Few in broadcasting in Houston today will remembe...