KNUZ-TV

For the current occupant of Channel 39 in Houston, Texas, see KIAH.
KNUZ-TV
Channels
Programming
AffiliationsDuMont
Ownership
OwnerKNUZ Television Company
KNUZ
History
First air date
October 22, 1953 (70 years ago) (1953-10-22)
Last air date
June 25, 1954 (70 years ago) (1954-06-25)[a]

KNUZ-TV was a television station broadcasting on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 39 in Houston, Texas, United States, affiliated with the DuMont Television Network. It signed on the air on October 22, 1953, as Houston's third television station (four, including KGUL-TV channel 11 in Galveston) and first UHF outlet;[2] it closed on June 25, 1954, after having lost money its entire existence and competing with two existing commercial very high frequency (VHF) outlets. KNUZ-TV's studios and transmitter were located at 4343 Cullen Boulevard in the Texas Television Center on the University of Houston campus.

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  2. ^ "Seven New Video Stations Begin; Johnson City, Tenn., Gets First" (PDF). Broadcasting. October 12, 1953. p. 66. Retrieved October 7, 2021.


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