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KHOU-TV
Flag of United States Houston, Texas
BrandingChannel 11 (general)
11 News HD (newscasts)
SloganThe Spirit of Texas
Channels11 (VHF) analog,
31 (UHF) digital
AffiliationsCBS
OwnerBelo Corporation
FoundedMarch 23, 1953
Call letters meaningK HOUston
Former callsignsKGUL-TV (1953-59)
Former affiliationsNone
Websitewww.khou.com

KHOU-TV is the local CBS affiliate in Houston, Texas, owned by Belo Corporation (which purchased the station, along with the rest of Corinthian Broadcasting, from Dun & Bradstreet in 1984). It broadcasts on Channel 11. Its transmitter is located in Missouri City, Texas. The station's best known alumni are former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather and newswomen Linda Ellerbee and Jessica Savitch.

The station has been one of the top-rated CBS affiliates in Texas for the past 20 years and more, aided by a strong programming lineup with popular syndicated shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show (since 1985), Jeopardy! (since 1984), Wheel of Fortune (since 1983), Extra, and The Insider.

KHOU was the second TV station to sign on in the Houston area (KPRC-TV was the first), as KGUL-TV (as in Gulf or as in "seaGull" ) broadcasting out of Galveston and became the island city's CBS affiliate. The FCC license was and continues to list both the Houston and Galveston service areas. One of the original investors in the station was actor Jimmy Stewart along with a small group of other Galveston investors. In 1998, it would be the first digital station in Houston to sign on. Later on, it changed calls to KHOU in June 1959, and on April 20, 1960 the station moved to its present location just outside downtown Houston on Allen Parkway; to this date, KHOU is the only TV station in Houston to have its studios close to the downtown area. The rest of Houston's TV stations are based in the Upper Kirby district, or in the Sharpstown area (as in the case for KPRC-TV).

In the early 1970's, there was an exodus of the top television news anchor team of Ron Stone and famed sportcaster Ron Franklin over to the local NBC affiliate KPRC-TV. Dropping in market share from the #1 position to last, KHOU management, under Corinthian Broadcasting, actually considered hiring the popular investigative news reporter Marvin Zindler of the local ABC affiliate for the lead anchor position.

In 1974, KHOU production management began experimenting from transitioning from news footage shot on 16mm film and processed at the station to experimentation with some very early Sony electronic cameras by time-base correcting the poor quality signal to match broadcast signal standards. It didn't look that great but after a storm knocked out power to the station with massive flooding along Allen Parkway in the spring of 1974, engineers and crew scrambled to transmit the first live news broadcast in the parking lot from a "single tube" Sony ENG camera.