KTRE Competitors

KHOU 11 has been one of the top-rated CBS affiliates in Texas for over two decades. From broadcasting the first live picture of radar screen during Hurricane Carla in 1961, to becoming the nation’s first digital television station, KHOU 11 has been a leader in local news, information and community involvement for over six decades. KHOU-TV signed on the air March 22, 1953 as KGUL-TV in Galveston. KGUL was owned by a group of Galveston and Houston investors including actor Jimmy Stewart. In fact, it was Stewart’s voice that was first heard on the station. Walter Cronkite was among those presiding over groundbreaking ceremonies in May of 1959 for the new studio facilities. A month later, the station officially changed its call letters to KHOU-TV. On April 20, 1960, the station moved to its present location near downtown Houston. Dan Rather is just one of many former KHOU journalists who went on to work for a network. Rather was KHOU’s news director from 1960 to 1962. He anchored the 6 and 10 o’clock newscasts and hosted a Saturday morning news program. KHOU 11 is part of TEGNA Media, one of the largest most geographically diverse broadcasters in the U.S. To learn more about TEGNA and its subsidiary brands, visit www.tegna.com.

KLTV is Gray Television station that dominates a growing market. Covering the large geographic area of East Texas, KLTV has over a 65-year history of service to the community and local news coverage. Tyler serves as the largest retail hub between Dallas and Shreveport, Louisiana. The market is the manufacturing and health care center of East Texas and home to the University of Texas at Tyler and Tyler Junior College.

KSLA is the CBS-affiliated television station in Shreveport, Louisiana, serving the Ark-La-Tex region of Northwest Louisiana, Southwest Arkansas and Northeast Texas. Owned by Raycom Media, KSLA maintains studios located on Fairfield Avenue and Dashiel Street (southeast of I-20) in central Shreveport. KSLA News 12 has a proud tradition in the Ark-La-Tex dating back to January, 1954 when it became the first television station in this area to sign on the air. At the time, KSLA News 12 aired programming from all four networks - CBS, ABC, NBC and DuMont. Over the years, other television stations signed on the air and KSLA News 12 became the one and only CBS station in the Ark-La-Tex.