Vanished Houston Landmarks by Mark Lardas

Author:Mark Lardas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2020-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

The sign-on logo for KUHT-TV. Houston’s channel 8 was the first public interest television station to begin broadcasting in the United States. The original studio was in the Ezekial Cullen Building, which is in the background of this picture. Courtesy of the University of Houston Digital Archive Library.

The University of Houston had an active communications department and already offered courses in radio communications. It launched the first university-operated broadcast radio station in November 1950, so television was the obvious next step. The university, upon receiving internal approval, applied for a television broadcast license on April 17, 1951. When the FCC’s freeze was lifted in 1952, the University of Houston was the only applicant for Houston’s noncommercial channel. The license for channel 8 was soon granted to the University of Houston.

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