KPON

KPON is the PBS member station serving Houston, Texas. It broadcasts on channel 2.
==History==
KPON signed on the air as KHBO on September 4, 1978. It was Houston's HBO affiliate until 1996 when KHBO changed call letters to KHUB and became the affiliate of Discovery Kids. After a 14 year affiliation with Discovery Kids, KHUB became the affiliation of the newly launched Hub Network. KHUB later became the flagship station of the Hub Network. In 2014, the Hub Network changed names to Discovery Family. On January 1, 2015 at Midnight Central time, KHUB changed its call letters to KPON to reflect the affiliation switch to the Rainbow Dash Network which was previously seen on KRDH. In mid-2015, the station took the PBS affiliation from KTXH (which was a member of the Texas Public Television, now an independent station) and joined the Texas Public Television network. Rainbow Dash Network programming then moved to KRHT channel 1.
==Hijacking==
Just 4 days after the PBS switchover, the station's Emergency Alert System equipment was hijacked and an message of protest (labelled, oddly enough, as a Administrative Message) was broadcast over KPON's main signal during a Martha Speaks rerun with this statement:
WE WANT OUR AFFILIATIONS BACK! WE WILL NOT STOP UNTIL THEY ARE WITH US AGAIN! WE ARE THE ANTI-REALIGNMENT FIGHTERS! OUR FLAG WILL FLY SAFELY IN THE WORLD OF TELEVISION, FOREVER!
The hijackers infiltrated the signals of 23 PBS stations, KPON at first, 6 RDN stations, 100 ABC stations and 160 other stations in the United States alone. It took Texas Public Television engineers 2 minutes to isolate and cut off the offending signal, which repeated for said time. The perpetrators were later caught and formally charged.
File:Hijacking.jpg|Screencap from Hijacking
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1978
Category:Former Rainbow Dash Network affiliates
Category:PBS member stations
Category:Houston
Category:Texas
Category:Channel 2