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Full-power digital · channel 8 · HOUSTON, TX
| Facility ID | 69269 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM |
| Community of licence | HOUSTON, TX
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 29.57111, -95.51056 |
| Effective radiated power | 49.8 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 595.5 m above average terrain · directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | none |
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | none found |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 796968 | 3 | LPD | |
| facility 796966 | 3 | LPD | |
| facility 796957 | 3 | LPD | |
| facility 796983 | 3 | LPT | |
| KCVH-LD | 6 | LPD | DAIJ MEDIA, LLC |
| KDHU-LD | 7 | LPD | WORD OF GOD FELLOWSHIP, INC. |
| KHXL-LD | 7 | LPD | EDGE SPECTRUM, INC. |
| facility 793693 | 9 | LPD | |
| KBMN-LD | 9 | LPD | DTV AMERICA CORPORATION |
| KHLM-LD | 10 | LPD | CHRISTIAN TELEVISION CORPORATION, INC. |
| KUVM-LD | 10 | LPD | HC2 STATION GROUP, INC. |
| KHOU | 11 | DTV | KHOU-TV, INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/KUHT | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=KUHT | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.