KRIV

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KRIV Channel 26 (Digital channel 27) is the Fox owned-and-operated affiliate in Houston, Texas. It is co-owned with UPN affiliate KTXH. Both stations share the same studio complex on 4261 Southwest Freeway in Houston. KRIV operates on 5000 Kilowatts of power from a 1,949-foot (594 meter) tower near Houston.

History

KRIV signed on in 1971 under its original call letters of KDOG. It was the second UHF station in Houston to sign on the air. The former GM of the station chose the letters, and saw them appropriate during the station's formative years as, in his words, they were a "dogged station" ratings-wise. In May 1980, Metromedia purchased the station and changed the station's call letters to KRIV. This influx of dollars caused the station to begin taking more risks by picking up higher profile syndicated programming and forming a news department, featuring the first major primetime newscast in the market.

Six years later in 1986, Australian newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch purchased the Metromedia television stations, and with them KRIV, which became a founding owned-and-operated station of his new Fox television network. The acquisition caused the station, along with a number of other former Metromedia outlets, to suddenly adopt a more sophisticated look for a network that at the time, didn't actually exist. A unified music and graphics packaged was featured on this station, as well as the original FOX O&Os, which is constantly noted for featuring graphics that were among the first of their kind for local television.

Within several years, the station formed an investigative unit, and a program called "City Under Siege" which aired after the evening news. The show was actually a predecessor to one of the FOX network's standouts: COPS.

KRIV moved to its current home studios in 1997, after 26 years at its original home on Westheimer Road. KRIV's current studios is where the syndicated television series Texas Justice was produced.

External Link

• KRIV FOX 26