| ATSC 3.0 station | |
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| Channels | |
| Branding | My20 Vision |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Fox Television Stations, LLC |
| KRIV | |
| History | |
First air date | November 7, 1982 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 20 (UHF, 1982–2009) |
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Call sign meaning | Texas Houston |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 51569 |
| ERP | 421 kW |
| HAAT | 596 m (1,955 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°33′45.1″N 95°30′35.8″W / 29.562528°N 95.509944°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KTXH (channel 20), branded on-air as My20 Vision, is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, serving as the local outlet for the MyNetworkTV programming service. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KRIV (channel 26). The two stations share studios on Southwest Freeway (I-69/US 59) in Houston; KTXH's transmitter is located near Missouri City, Texas.
KTXH began broadcasting in November 1982 as Houston's third independent station. A month after going on air, its broadcast tower collapsed in a construction accident that killed five people. The station recovered and emerged as Houston's sports independent, beginning long associations with the Houston Astros and Houston Rockets that continued uninterrupted through the late 1990s and sporadically until the early 2010s. Not long after starting up, KTXH was sold twice in rapid succession for large amounts. However, when the independent station trade, advertising market, and regional economy cooled, it was sold again for less than half of its previous value. The Paramount Stations Group acquired KTXH and other stations in two parts between 1989 and 1991, bringing much-needed stability.
KTXH was one of several Paramount-owned stations to be charter outlets for the United Paramount Network (UPN) in 1995; in 2001, after UPN was acquired by CBS, Fox took possession of the station in a trade and merged its operations with KRIV. When UPN merged into The CW in 2006, bypassing all of Fox's UPN and independent stations in the process, the station became part of Fox's MyNetworkTV service. In 2021, the station became one of two ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) transmitters for the Houston area; its subchannels are now transmitted by other local stations on its behalf.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KTXH". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.