KPRC-TV , virtual channel 2 (UHF 35 digital channel), is a NBC affiliated television station licensed to Houston, Texas, USA. The station is owned by Graham Media Group subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company. The KPRC studios are located at Southwest Freeway (I-69) in Sharpstown district, and the transmitter is located near Missouri City, in the unincorporated northeast of Fort Bend County. This is NBC's largest affiliate station (not owned by network) based on market size.
Prior to the digital transition, KPRC was the only Houston station on the VHF button whose cable channel position was incompatible with over-the-air analogue channels, due to interference from low vhf terrestrial signal bands; it was placed on Comcast Xfinity 12 channel, instead. Another cable system on the outside edge of the Houston media market carries KPRC on cable channel 2. Also available in cables at Lufkin-Nacogdoches, Victoria, and Bryan-College Station.
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Histori
The station first aired on the air on January 1, 1949, as KLEE-TV . This is the first television station in Houston and the second to be signed in Texas, three months behind Fort Worth station, WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV) and more than eight months in front of Dallas KBTV station (now WFAA). Originally owned by hotelier W. Albert Lee and carrying programs from all four networks of the day - NBC, CBS, ABC, and DuMont. However, after a year of hardship, Lee sold the station to the Hobby family, owner of the Houston Post and the oldest radio station in Houston, KPRC (950 AM and 99.7 FM, now KODA at 99.1). The Hobbys took over on June 1, 1950, and changed the station call letters of television to match his brother's radio on July 3, 1950. Although the summons stood for P ost R adio C ompany, they also refer to the slogan of the 1920s business/tourism campaign K otton ( sic required by the ITU prefix) P ort R ail C logged in. (There is a situation similar to Houston KHCB-FM radio station.) After Hobbys took over, channel 2 became the main NBC affiliate because of KPRC-AM's old radio affiliate with NBC Red Network, a link that still exists today. Due to a freeze issued by the Federal Communications Commission on a new station license, channel 2 remains the only television station in Houston for four more years. CBS moved to KGUL-TV (channel 11, now KHOU) in 1953 and KTRK-TV (channel 13) took over an ABC affiliate when it was signed one year later. DuMont ceased operations in 1956, although briefly affiliated with the now-defunct KNUZ-TV (channel 39, frequency now occupied by KIAH). Due to its affiliation with NBC, KPRC was the first station in Houston to broadcast a color program and then became the first to broadcast the program completely in color.
In March 1953, the station operated its first permanent studio located at 3014 Post Oak Road, which later became the Lake at Post Oak near the Galleria shopping complex in Uptown Houston. The studio buildings are along the front of the road, while the KPRC (AM) transmitter site is in the back of the parking lot. KPRC is the first station in Houston that uses weather radar, to use video footage for field reporting, has a full-service news agency in Austin, and to hire female and African American journalists. = Stations became a source of controversy after several television audiences in the United Kingdom claimed their signal on September 14, 1953, three years after the original signal was transmitted. = However, this is actually a trick. For years, Hobby's family bought several other television stations, including KVOA-TV in Tucson, KCCI in Des Moines, WTVF in Nashville, WESH in Orlando, and KSAT-TV in San Antonio.
From 1969 to 1998, KPRC produced the longest syndicated television program in Texas, The Eyes of Texas, a lifestyle program focused on segments relating to Texas culture and life (the program continues to broadcast locally at the Station members of PBS KUHT, channel 8). KPRC was also one of the first stations to air, collecting $ 28,000 for the American Cancer Society in 1950. It brings the MDA Labor Day Telethon every Labor Day from 1970 to 2012 (KPRC status as MDA) Network of Love "affiliated in 2013, when teleton discontinued its syndicated distribution model and moved to ABC as the MDA Show of Strength brand, which was shown locally on KTRK-TV until the program ended after 2014. In March 1972, KPRC -TV has moved to a new sophisticated studio facility in Sharpstown neighborhood in Houston (then-suburb) that it operates for 45 years.The building houses three studios inside and is suspended from the ground to reduce vibration, and when viewed from space via satellite maps, the building resembles a film camera.
In 1983, Hobbys sold Houston Post to MediaNews Group, while ownership of the family broadcast was reorganized as H & amp; C Communications, with KPRC-AM/TV remaining as the main station (KPRC-FM was sold in 1958). After 40 years under the ownership of the Hobby family, KPRC was sold to The Washington Post Company in April 1994 ( Posts then purchased by Hearst Corporation and absorbed into the Houston Chronicle , with the edition most recently printed on April 18, 1995). In 2004, KPRC renamed "Local 2". In January 2015, KPRC dropped "Local" and started calling themselves "Channel 2".
In December 2015, KPRC made a breakthrough in the new studio, behind the old studio in the employee parking lot, on the same Shaprstown site. While the old studio is 90,000 square feet (8,361 m 2 ), the new studio will have only 65,000 square feet (6,039 m 2 ). The new studio was dedicated in April 2016, and the studio 45 years earlier had been destroyed.
Since 1994, KPRC has used the familiar "Lone Star 2" logo, which was modified in 2004 for HD. WMAR-TV in Baltimore, Maryland used the same logo in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but without a Texas star and with the ABC logo instead of NBC, because the station had been changed in 1995.
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Digital television
Digital channels
Digital channel of this station multiplexing:
KPRC has brought this TV from early 2009 to 28 May 2018 on the second sub-channel, becoming one of the network's longest affiliates before leaving the network on that day. KPRC 2.2 later became MeTV's new home in the Houston market, taking over the role of KUBE-TV 57.4 (also where the TV was moved to 57.7 TVs and the newly-created Cozi swapped to 57.4).
Analog-to-digital conversion
KPRC-TV stopped regular programming on its analog signal, via VHF 2 channel, on June 12, 2009, as part of a federal mandate transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remains on the pre-transition UHF channel (35), using PSIP to display the KPRC-TV virtual channel as 2 on the digital television receiver. On that date, ducting the troposphere produces an acceptable KPRC digital signal as far as Alexandria, Louisiana, where the KPRC 2.1 virtual channel is visible in place of the KALB-TV 5.1 virtual channel on the digital receiver (both channels sending their digital signals on the UHF channel 35).
As part of the SAFER Act, KPRC stores its analog signals in the air until July 12 to inform viewers about the transition of digital television through a public service announcement loop from the National Association of Broadcasters.
Programming
In addition to cleaning up most NBC event schedules, KPRC-TV broadcasts mostly syndicate programs during daytime hours such as Dr. Phil , Extra , and Entertainment Tonight .
Houston Houston Oilers/Texans
Beginning in 1965, the American Football League signed a broadcasting deal with NBC. As a result, KPRC became the main station for Houston Oilers, one of the eight league founding teams. This continued after the AFL became the American Football Conference at the National Football League in 1970; The Oilers broadcast ended after the 1996 NFL season, when the team moved to Nashville and became Tennessee Titans. During the team's last years in Houston, Oilers failed to sell many home-based games, making them as dismissals on television under league rules.
Since 2006, the station has also been involved with the current Houston NFL team, the Texas troop (who started playing in 2002), where the station aired the game when they were featured on NBC's Sunday Night Football.
Preemptions
KPRC has been famous in recent years due to its share of pre-emptions. When Passion debuted on NBC in 1999, KPRC (along with the Detroit WDIV-TV twin stations) was the only NBC affiliate that preceded the soap opera until 2002; both previous stations have also preceded Sunset Beach (though UPN stations in both cities carry the program). Maury is displayed in place of Passions , until moving to KHWB after KPRC completes the last show in a normal network slot. Initially, it was aired for a short time at KNWS-TV (channel 51, now KYAZ) in 2001, before moving on to KPRC next year aired at 3 am. While NBC has become more tolerant of preemptions than in previous years, it prefers affiliates to delete the entire schedule whenever possible. As a result, KPRC placed Passion within the normal 2 pm hours. timeslot in August 2004, but this became disputed when the program ended in September 2007.
Late Night with Conan O'Brien also did not air in Houston from 1994 to 1996; KPRC has chosen to re-display the The Jenny Jones Show event in its place. Late Night returned back to KPRC in 1996, despite delayed schedules in the next few years to broadcast programs like Ricki Lake at 11:35 pm, followed by > Access Hollywood , repetition of 10:00 news broadcasts and Jenny Jones , which delayed Late Night until 2:40 am. This fact is not lost on O'Brien, who visits Houston (including visits at the main Houston Bus Terminal) and Astrodome) to watch his own show episode with Houstonians in a classic remotes movie; The KPRC email server is flooded with emails in response. KPRC moved the show to 12: 35 a in 1998, and finally to the recommended network (for its time zone) 11:35 pm. slot in 2005, where Late Night , now hosted by Seth Meyers, continues to air; However, the station still delayed Last Call with Carson Daly until 2:05 pm, indicating the infomercial on the show's network folds from 12:35 am am KPRC is one of the few non-aired NBC affiliates Poker After Dark during the whole, and also did not bring short-lived Face the Ace in August 2009 (along with WDIV and Milwaukee's WTMJ-TV), pre-empting both primetimes broadcasted with the Hospital program St. Jude Children's. Starting January 2013, the current NBC lineup (re-broadcast from fourth hour Today on weekdays; LXTV 1st Look and Open House NYC at the end week) does not air in Houston (as with the WDIV sister station).
KPRC is also known for motor pre-emptions: in 2001, contracts with the Miss Texas Scholarship Pageant that made it impossible to reschedule resulted in pre-emption of Firecracker 400, then broadcast on NBC under the base back and forth with Fox (Fox and NBC replace Daytona 500 and Firecracker 400). In 2013, KPRC preceded the coverage of the inaugural Formula 1 NBC broadcast of the Monaco Grand Prix 2013 (which was broadcast locally at 6:30 am due to the time difference between US and Monaco) with infomercials and local news.
NFL 2007 season opener
In September 2007, the first half hour of the NFL Kickoff match between New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts was shown in KPRC with the default audio in Spanish rather than English. KPRC inadvertently aired a secondary audio program feed provided by Telemundo (owned by NBC's NBC Universal parent company).
Houston Life
On August 23, 2016, KPRC debuted with a new lifestyle and daily entertainment program called Houston Life . The event is hosted by Derrick Shore (formerly of KCET and Current TV and Channel One News) and Jennifer Broome (formerly of WOAI-TV and KDVR) and focuses on what makes Houston a great place to live, work and play. This moved Days of Our Lives an hour later from NBC's recommended time slot (1 pm) to 2 pm, the soap opera took the empty time slot of the canceled Meredith Vieira Show >.
News operations
KPRC-TV currently broadcast 36 ½ hours of locally produced news broadcast every week (with 6 hours on weekdays, 3 hours on Saturdays, and 3½ hours on Sundays). In the early years under the leadership of news director Ray Miller, KPRC is usually placed first in the local news rankings, the situation is not surprising given its roots in Posting . In 1972, the station employed two key figures from KHOU for its evening newscast: Ron Stone anchor and Ron Franklin sports broadcaster. From 1985 to 1992, the station's newscasts were labeled as Two News Channels, and broadcast news updates all the time throughout the day, including during the NBC primetime event. For several years during the early 1990s, updates also aired overnight with producers and other newsroom personnel who served as anchors.
With anchors like Ron Stone, Bill Balleza, Jan Carson, Linda Lorelle, Dan O'Rourke, and Bob Nicholas, weather forecaster Doug Johnson, and sporting hosts Ron Franklin and Craig Roberts, station news broadcasts - while usually second rear long-KTRK dominant - often competed and even placed first. In 1995, shortly after Post-Newsweek Station bought KPRC, its news release was titled News 2 Houston . Three years later, KPRC built a new set using the newsroom as a background similar to the "newsplex" set used by WSVN in Miami. These sets are referred to as "News Centers" and used in the air until 2006, although the physical newsroom still exists in the same region. In 1996, KPRC debuted half an hour at 4 pm. newscast. During this time, KPRC won more awards and continued to compete with KHOU and KTRK in the rankings, sometimes even defeating KTRK at 10 pm. At this point, KPRC newscasts use a tabloid-style format similar to WSVN; news broadcasts before the purchase of Post-Newsweek is more traditional than.
From there, the station dropped dramatically. At 5 stations. newscasts at one time were even reportedly finished in fifth place, behind a news broadcast on rival KHOU and KTRK-TV, reruns of the Simpsons syndication at Fox KRIV station (channel 26), and Spanish news broadcast at Univision KXLN station (channel 45). The station also decreased ratings in the morning and at 4 and 10 pm. KPRC was also hit with a boycott by civil rights activist Quanell X and the others following the decline of the two African American anchorages. During the controversy, KPRC hired the old anchor KHOU Jerome Gray, who was an African-American, and moved former Khambrel Marshall anchor to an executive producer. In May 2008, KPRC announced Marshall would return on air as a weekend meteorologist.
Overall, in early 2008, KPRC came in third behind KHOU and KTRK. The morning and evening newscasts at KPRC made the biggest gains in 2007, competing for second place. However, the station is consistently ranked # 1 among young men between 25 and 35 years old. Since Nielsen Media Research started using the Local People Meter in the Houston market in October 2007, KPRC has seen its rise in the morning and evening, while the competition has declined. KPRC began broadcasting its local news broadcasts in high definition on July 19, 2008, during a news broadcast at 6 pm. On August 24, 2009, KPRC-TV expanded its morning news broadcast starting at 4:30 in the morning. In 2012, at 6 stations. news broadcasts have increased rankings, boast the highest showing in November and December, as well as significant increases in all other time periods; 10 p.m.broadcast also grew, beating KTRK for the first time in the timeslot for several consecutive months of the year.
Current on-air staff
- Jacob Rascon - reporter (2017-now, joined the station on September 25, 2017, KTRK-TV broadcaster Art Rascon's son)
Leading former on-air staff
In popular culture
In 1958, Reader's Digest published an article about how one afternoon in 1953, a signal indicating the KLEE station ID that should have appeared on TV across Britain - three years after the station was sold and converted into KPRC- TV. Although quickly revealed as a hoax to sell TV sets in the UK, it remains an old urban legend.
In the 1980-82 NBC soap opera Texas , made primarily in Houston, this series made some mention of the fictional television station "KVIK", which was run by one of the characters of the show. A brief look at the exterior of the KPRC studio facility, marked with a "KVIK" sign up front, can be seen in the next version of the event's opening title. One episode of this series features scenes where two characters are talking while walking in the second floor aisle at "KVIK" (which was filmed in the KPRC building) overlooking the first floor lobby.
References
External links
- Official website
- Snopes.com articles about KLEE-TV ghost broadcasts
- FCC TV station request database for KPRC
- BIAfn Media Web Database - Information at KPRC-TV
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