KHCW
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KHCW is the WB Television Network affiliate for Houston, Texas, broadcasting on UHF channel 39. It is owned by the Tribune Company. It offers first-run primetime programming from the WB, cartoons from Kids WB, off-network sitcoms, first-run reality/talk/court shows, and paid programming.
History
The station began broadcasting on January 6, 1967 as KHTV (Houston TeleVision). The station took the place of the now-defunct KNUZ-TV Channel 39 (which was a DuMont affiliate). It was owned by Gaylord Broadcasting. It ran a general entertainment independent schedule including cartoons, off-network sitcoms, old movies, religious shows, westerns, and dramas, not to mention Star Trek reruns and the syndicated Soul Train dance show. One of it's best known locally produced programs was "Houston Wrestling", hosted by local promoter Paul Boesch. It aired Saturday evenings, having been taped the night before at the weekly live shows in the Sam Houston Coliseum. It was the first UHF channel in Houston to broadcast in color. For a short time in the early 1980s, it was known as KHTV 39 Gold. It was the leading independent station in Houston as competitors entered the market.As a WB affiliate
At first, the new WB network (which launched in January 1995) refused to affiliate with KHTV, seeing as Gaylord declined to affiliate its Fort Worth-Dallas and Tacoma-Seattle stations with the network (and instead affiliated them with CBS). However, in the fall of 1995, the station was acquired by Tribune Broadcasting (which held a stake in the WB network). As a result, the station became a WB affiliate in January 1996 and called itself Houston's WB39, and changed its call letters to KHWB in 1999 to reflect its affiliation. The KHTV call letters eventually ended up on a Home Shopping Network outlet in Los Angeles (though this KHTV is low-power).
The weekday Monday–Friday Kids' WB block was discontinued on December 30, 2005.
From the WB to the CW
On January 24, 2006, the WB and UPN networks announced they would merge. The newly combined network would be called The CW, the letters representing the first initial of its corporate parents CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner. The merger would take effect on-the-air in September 2006, and KHWB was announced as the Houston affiliate; a few months later, the FCC approved a call-sign change from KHWB to KHCW (Houston's CW), which became official on April 27, 2006. Current UPN station KTXH, owned by the News Corporation, will join My Network TV.
Newscast
KHCW has a newscast called "Houston's WB News at Nine" which airs every night from 9 p.m. to 9:30.Logos
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External links
| KPRC 2 (NBC) - KUHT 8 (PBS) - KHOU 11 (CBS) - KTRK 13 (ABC) - KETH 14 (TBN) - KTXH 20 (UPN - to be MNTV in 09/06) - KVQT 21 (Span. Rel.) - KLTJ 22 (DS) - KRIV 26 (Fox) - KCVH 30 (LAT TV) - KVIT 34 (Almavision) - KHCW 39 (The WB - to be The CW in 09/06) - KHLM 43 (Span. Ind.) - KXLN 45 (UNI) - KTMD 47 (TEL) - KPXB 49 / KBPX 33 (i) - KNWS 51 (Ind) - KTBU 55 (Ind) - KAZH 57 / KHMV 28 / KVVV 53 (AZA) - KZJL 61 (Ind) - KFTH 67 (TFU) |