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Wednesday, January 05, 2022

Bounce TV moves to 49.2 in Houston from 11.2

Bounce TV has moved KHOU 11.2 to 49.2 a sub-channel of ION on 49 KPXB.

Shop LC is now on 11.2.

As usual with these sub-channel moves, Houston TV viewers don't get a lot of notice and that is when my inbox starts filling up until I can track down the answer.

Now for more info than you might care about...I'm guessing the reason why Bounce moved from 11.2 to 49.2 is that Katz Broadcasting, a subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, owns Bounce, ION and 49 KPXB. 

While you are own channel 49, go down to 49.7 to sample Newsy - a new 24 hour news channel that is over the air (OTA) and available for free with an TV antenna.

Court TV is bounced by Bounce from the 49.2 channel, but no problem here, because Court TV has been also airing on 39.5 for sometime.  So just go to 39.5 for Court TV in Houston from now on if you haven't already.

Oddly enough, Katz Broadcasting, LLC (E. W. Scripps Company) owns Court TV too, so not sure why it is on a Nexstar owned station.

Does this have something with ATSC 3.0 NextGenTV signing on in Houston? Maybe?

In other sub-channel news, TWIST, which debuted on KHOU 11.4 in 2021, is now on both 11.4 and 11.8.  TWIST replaced Quest on 11.4, when Quest moved to TEGNA sister-station 55.1 KTBU.

Is this all confusing yet?