This thread got me curious to see how many stations Houston had in 1967. It was 5.
KPRC (NBC)
KHOU (CBS)
KTRK (ABC)
KUHT (University of Houston/PBS)
KHTV (Channel 39, independent UHF)

All are still in business today; channel 39 is the only one that's changed network affiliations. Carries the CW today.

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Posted by Aeolian Vocalion

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Posted on 12/8/22 at 10:02 pm to PowerTool

I have some Houston (Southeast Texas) "TV Guide" magazines from 1967, along with many other years. Always fascinating to peruse the listings. Even with so few channels, I observe how there was so much programming I would have been happy with. Nowadays, I receive over a hundred channels, and almost never find anything I can stand to watch. It's all a bunch of vomitous, degenerate crap... made by cretinous minds, for cretinous minds.

Thank goodness for dvd's, and the ability to amass a good library of material to watch, including all 4 seasons of "The Fugitive."

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Posted by UndercoverBryologist

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Posted on 12/8/22 at 10:03 pm to PowerTool

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All are still in business today; channel 39 is the only one that's changed network affiliations. Carries the CW today.

There used to be a lot more independent stations around the country. Then Fox came around 87 and WB and UPN (which both later merged to form CW) came around in 95 and by then, I don’t think there were many independent stations left.

Edit: Actually, for a while after it launched, most of the formerly independent Fox affiliates still ran as semi-independent entities because Fox only ran content on a few days of the week. The rest of the affiliates’ programming schedule was first-run syndication stuff until Fox became a full 7-day-a-week network.

This post was edited on 12/8/22 at 10:10 pm

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