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. It is known by its nickname of Fox 26.
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. In May of 1980, Metromedia purchased the station and changed the station's call letters to KRIV. 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.
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 is produced. The station produces three newscasts a day, at 6am, 12noon, and 9pm.
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