| KNLNH | |
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Location |
Houston, Texas |
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Branding |
New Line 24 (general) |
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Slogan |
Totally New Line 24 (general) |
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Channel(s) |
Digital: 24 (UHF) |
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subchannel(s) |
24.1 - KNLNH |
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Affiliation |
New Line Network (O&O) |
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First air date |
September 1, 1970 |
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Former call letters |
KHTF-TV (1970–1986) |
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Former channel number |
Analog: 24 (UHF, 1970–2009) |
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Former Affiliation |
none |
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Owner |
New Line Stations |
KNLNH, virtual and UHF digital channel 24, is a New Line Network owned-and-operated station located in Houston, Texas. The station is owned by New Line Stations, a Time Warner company.
History[]
KHTF-TV first signed on the air at 6 p.m. on September 1, 1970, owned by Pearl Broadcasting. The station initially branded as "New Line 24" or "New Line Houston", later branding as "KHTF", then returning to "New Line 24" by 1982. KHTF was one of the first, if not the first, to use the network-channel number branding that has become commonplace since the mid-1990s. Pearl Broadcasting exited the broadcasting business in 1986 and sold KHTF to New Line Stations and channel 24 became KNLNH as a result of New Line's owned-and-operated-station callsign standardization.
Up until 2008, KNLNH's Houston studios were used by the 24-hour news channel 24-Hour News from New Line as a production center for programs including News Now and a 24HNNL edition of New Line Live.
Gallery[]
News programming[]
As of October 5, 2015, KNLNH currently broadcasts 30 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours and 30 minutes on weekdays, 90 minutes on Saturdays and an hour on Sundays). On weekdays, "New Line News 24" broadcasts six 1-minute news updates at :59 past the hour from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM and from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. At 6:00 AM and 10:00 PM, KNLNH is the originating station of "New Line News Tri-State", which is shown across New Line's owned-and-operated stations in Texas, New Orleans and Oklahoma City.
The station also produces "Affair Houston", a thirty-minute weekly local current affairs program on Sunday afternoons at 11:00 AM.
New Line 24's first newscasts were named The Eye-Opener and later, The Houston News. The original primetime news was called Houston Final. In 1991, New Line cancelled the local newscast on KNLNH due to corporate budget cuts and began producing a statewide newscast, New Line Texas News, co-produced and presented from Houston, and KNLND in Dallas. Following a sharp drop in ratings (though production began co-originating from KSANL in San Antonio after New Line purchased that station in 1996), localized newscasts from Houston were restored in 1997.
The local evening newscasts were cut in 2000 with the launch of a national and international news program, New Line Live from Los Angeles. Seven years later, the all-Houston evening newscast returned to its 90-minute-long format under the umbrella title of New Line News 24.
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