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KTXH (My20) is the UPN (and future My Network TV) affiliate in Houston, Texas. It broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 20, and its digital signal on UHF channel 19. It is owned by the Fox Television Stations Group.

Along with programming from UPN, the station also airs cartoons, sitcoms, first run syndicated talk/reality shows, and some paid programming. Although the station does not carry a regular newscast, it will pre-empt its programming for news coverage from either KRIV or the FOX News Channel (both owned by Fox) when situations warrant.

History

KTXH began broadcasting on November 7,1982, as an independent station originally known as "20 Vision." It was the second station owned by Grant Broadcasting. It programmed a general entertainment format consisting of cartoons, vintage off-network sitcoms and dramas, old movies, westerns, and sports.

The fledgling station was broadcasting from a tower under construction that collapsed in 1982, killing five workers. It was eventually replaced by the Senior Road Tower.

Grant Broadcasting sold both KTXH and KTXA Channel 21 in Dallas/Fort Worth to Gulf Broadcasting in 1984. Several weeks later, Gulf sold its television broadcasting division to Taft Broadcasting. Even after going through three owners within the same year, the station did not change its programming format.

Hannah Storm, later a noted national broadcast personality, anchored the station's coverage of the NBA's Houston Rockets in the mid-1980's.

Taft sold off most of its stations (except WGHP in North Carolina) in 1988. KTXH, along with Taft's other independent stations, was sold to TVX Broadcast Group, which in turn sold its stations to Paramount Pictures in 1991. Under Paramount, the station added several first run syndicated shows in the mid-1990s and rebranded to "Paramount 20". (KTXA was branded similarly, with "21" in place of "20".) It eventually became an affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN) at the network's launch on January 16, 1995.

KTXH came under the ownership of Fox Television Stations Group in 2001, as part of a corporate deal between Fox and Viacom (which has been Paramount's parent company since 1993). This was because UPN station KBHK in San Francisco, a Chris-Craft Industries (of which was bought out by Fox) owned station, was the only station in the market owned by Fox, but Fox station KTVU (owned by Cox Enterprises, has a long-time affiliation commitment to the network. As such, Fox traded KBHK to then-Viacom/now-CBS Corporation for KTXH in Houston and WDCA in Washington, D.C., thus establishing duopolies in San Francisco (KPIX and KBHK), Houston (KRIV and KTXH), and Washington (WTTG and WDCA). Also, as a result of the trade, KTXH was reunited with WTXF-TV in Philadelphia, which were sister stations through the various ownership changes until 1995, when WTXF was sold to Fox. The station also relocated its broadcasting facilities from the original studios on Kirby Drive near present-day Reliant Park to KRIV's studios.

From UPN to My Network TV

Following the January 24, 2006 announcement of the new CW Network as a merger between the UPN and WB networks, KTXH will lose its UPN affiliation effective in September. Another station in the Houston market, KHCW-39, is owned by Tribune Broadcasting and will air CW Network programming. KTXH has a lower channel number than sister station KRIV/26, but despite that KRIV will continue to be the Fox affiliate it has been since that station has been owned and operated by Fox since the beginning.

Starting in January 2006, the station started using a new "bug" on off-network programming which omits the UPN logo and leaves the "20", following suit with other Fox-owned UPN affiliates that did likewise after plans for CW were announced. However, KTXH's website still features the UPN 20 logo.

On February 22, 2006, Fox announced that KTXH will be part of a new primetime network called My Network TV to launch September 5, 2006. My Network TV will be operated by Fox Television Stations, Inc. and Twentieth Television. KTXH will thus be the first Houston area station to have been an O&O of 2 networks (the first being UPN).

In June 2006, KTXH was rebranded as My20, even though the website still has the old UPN 20 logo.

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