Who owns kprc

The fault does not lie with your set. Please stand by. The first broadcaster on Channel 2 was Paul Huhndorff. Channel 2 was only one of 12 television stations in the U. KPRC, first a radio station, was one of the first in the U. Paul Huhndorff and his team managed to get the station on-air for the first time with only the knowledge they gleaned from a technical manual and brief visits to a few operating stations elsewhere in the U.

Albert Lee. William and Mrs. The first Channel 2 offices were a Quonset hut, a prefabricated building. The first camera used by Channel 2 was a GE studio camera with an optical viewfinder — not too different from the then-popular Kodak Brownie snapshot camera. No one was seriously hurt and the equipment was not badly damaged. It happened on Election Night in The producer was Larry Weidman. KPRC had a homemade weather radar system in , made from a war surplus Navy fire control system and modified to scan the weather starting at about 40 miles away.

Some tinkering led to a range of about miles. Hurricane Carla in was the first hurricane tracked by the homemade weather tracker, which helped thousands of people evacuate low-lying areas in time. He suffered a fatal stroke while reporting the a. KPRC is the first station to establish a full-time, fully staffed news bureau in Austin. They were completely soaked with blood. The officers thought I had been stabbed in the crotch, so they laid me on the hood of a patrol car.

About that time, a cameraman from the ABC station showed up and began taping. His tape played on all the networks. My first network exposure was very compromising. The news director didn't want two of his reporters going to the border on a risky mafia expose, so he tabled the idea and gave them the half-hour show to produce.

The KPRC current building contains miles of wiring and 11, square feet -- or a quarter of an acre of glass. Courtney Zavala, now with Houston Life, went into labor on air during the midday news. She gave birth the evening of May 24, , to her son, Andrew. A pilot once deliberately flew beneath one of the supporting cables on the Blue Ridge tower, between the cable and the KPRC tower. He did not hit anything, but the move could have killed him and toppled the tower.

KPRC had the arrival of the first trail ride live on air. Watch it here. The station became the source of controversy after some television viewers in the United Kingdom claimed to receive its signal on September 14, , three years after the original signal was transmitted.

However, this was actually a hoax. The building housed three studios within and were suspended from the ground to reduce vibration, and when viewed from space via satellite map, the building resembled a film camera. In December , KPRC broke ground on a new studio, behind the old studio in the employee parking lot, on the same Shaprstown site. While the old studio was 90, square feet 8, m2 , the new studio would have only 65, square feet 6, m2.

The new studios were dedicated in April , and the previous year-old studios have since been demolished. TV Stations Wikia Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account?