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In mid-August 2006, the station launched their version of Fox's MyFox O&O website initiative with MyFoxHouston.com. This technically marks the station's first venture onto the Internet, as the station's previous website was more of a placeholder, and had little information besides links to the Fox network's site and their program schedule.
In mid-August 2006, the station launched their version of Fox's MyFox O&O website initiative with MyFoxHouston.com. This technically marks the station's first venture onto the Internet, as the station's previous website was more of a placeholder, and had little information besides links to the Fox network's site and their program schedule.

===Logos===
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Image:Kriv86.jpg|KRIV Logo from 1986 to 1987
Image:Kriv2688.jpg|KRIV Logo from 1987 to 1994
Image:E94e.jpg|KRIV Logo from 1994 to 1997
Image:KRIV.jpg|KRIV Logo from 1997 to 2006
Image:Kriv_myfox26_houston.jpg|"MyFox 26" Logo used on website 2006
Image:Fox26-2006.jpg|KRIV Current Logo 2006
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===Screenshots===
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Image:714e.jpg|A [[test card]] from KRIV in 1993
Image:E51c.jpg|Fox26 copyright from April 1993, using a version of the 1985 logo
Image:143a.jpg|Fox26 NFL Sunday promo/legal ID from 1994
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==Newscast titles==
==Newscast titles==

Revision as of 20:18, 9 October 2006

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KRIV, "FOX26" is the Fox owned-and-operated affiliate in Houston, Texas, USA. 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 located in Missouri City, Texas.

History

KRIV signed on in August 15, 1971 under its original call letters of KVRL. It was the second UHF station in Houston to sign on the air. Several years after signing on, the call letters were changed to KDOG. The former GM of the station, the late Leroy Gloger, chose the letters. Another former General Manager, the late Jerry Marcus commented (upon his retirement) that he saw them appropriate during the station's formative years as, in his words, they were a "dogged station" ratings-wise. During this period, the station aired a wide variety of programs. During the day they ran English general entertainment programming such as old cartoons, sitcoms, and old movies. At night they ran Spanish programming such as spanish-language telenovelas, Spanish language movies, Spanish serials.

In May 1978, Metromedia purchased the station and changed the station's call letters to KRIV. The new call letters were in honor of Albert Krivin, then a top Metromedia executive. The late Jerry Marcus, General Sales Manager of Metromedia's WTTG in Washington, DC, was brought to Houston to manage the station, where he remained until his retirement in December 1999. This influx of dollars caused the station to begin taking more risks by picking up higher profile syndicated programming and forming a news department, featuring the first major primetime newscast in the market. The station was running a general entertainment format complete with cartoons, sitcoms, movies, first run syndicated shows, locally produced talk shows, and the one of the few Spanish language forums on television at the time. Overall, the station ranked near KHTV, a more well-established outlet, over the years.

Six years later in 1986, Australian newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch purchased Metromedia television stations, including KRIV, which became a founding owned-and-operated station of his new Fox television network. The acquisition caused the station, along with a number of other former Metromedia outlets, to suddenly adopt a more sophisticated look for a network that at the time, didn't actually exist. A unified music and graphics packaged was featured on this station, as well as the original FOX O & Os, which is consistently noted for featuring graphics that were among the first of their kind for local television. Since 1986 KRIV 26 has been known as "FOX26".

In 1987, the station formed an investigative unit, and a program called "City Under Siege" which aired after the evening news. Originally hosted by anchors Jim Marsh & Fran Fawcett, the show was actually a predecessor to one of the FOX network's later standouts: COPS.

As a Fox O & O more first run programming was added. In 1993 KRIV Fox 26 joined 4 other O & O stations along with a growing number of affiliates launching a weekday morning newscast. The morning cartoons were dropped but they continued their afternoon kids block from Fox Kids until the end of 2001 when Fox ended the weekday kids' block nationwide. Today KRIV runs over 30 hours a week of local news along with off network sitcoms, sports, Fox first run shows, syndicated talk, court shows, reality shows and 4Kids TV.

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 and Judge Alex have been produced.

With the merger of UPN and the WB into The CW Television Network, KTXH will drop its UPN affiliation as KHCW (the former KHWB/KHTV) will be Houston's CW affiliate, and even though KTXH Channel 20 operates on a lower channel number, KRIV Channel 26 will continue to retain affiliation with Fox since it is the remaining original FOX station in Texas. KTXH will become the new affiliate for a newly launched network called My Network TV, a joint venture of FOX and its parent, Newscorp.

On July 26, 2006, shortly after competitor KHOU-TV launched a new graphics package, KRIV also launched a new graphics and music package, which is being gradually rolled out to each of FOX's owned and operated stations. KRIV's slogan also changed from "News That Works For You" to "Your Gulf Coast Weather Authority". In addition, KRIV is soon to launch an early evening newscast that will air on KTXH.

In mid-August 2006, the station launched their version of Fox's MyFox O&O website initiative with MyFoxHouston.com. This technically marks the station's first venture onto the Internet, as the station's previous website was more of a placeholder, and had little information besides links to the Fox network's site and their program schedule.

Logos

Screenshots

Newscast titles

  • Channel 26 Metromedia News (1978-1986)
  • FOX 26 News (1986-Present)

Newscasts

  • FOX26 Morning News 5:00-9:00AM weekdays
  • FOX26 News at Noon 12:00-12:30PM weekdays
  • FOX26 News at 9 9:00-10:00PM (Every Night)

Other Locally Produced Programming

  • The Black Voice (José Griñan) 6:00-6:30AM (Saturdays)
  • Hola Houston (Mike Barajas) 6:30-7:00AM (Saturdays)

News Music

Package Composer Years Used Other Notes
FOX O&O News Package VTS Productions 1986-1995
The Edge Cue11 1997-2001 First station to commission package
The CBS Enforcer Music Collection Gari Communications 2001-2005 First station to commisssion Series 3 themes
The Viper 615 Music 2005 & 2006 Used Version 2
FOX O&O News Theme OSI Music 2006-Present

Helicopter information

SkyFox II (Eurocopter AS350BA A-star)

Trivia

  • To date, KRIV is the last and only original Fox affiliate of any major market in Texas.
  • Usually, KRIV is the station that reports weather events in Houston for the Weather Channel.
  • KRIV for years has been the first Fox affiliate to launch newscasts in Texas. Other Fox affiliates in the state launched theirs later on in the 1990s.
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