KTBU

KTBU (channel 55) is a television station licensed to Conroe, Texas, United States, serving as the Houston area outlet for the digital multicast network Quest.

The two stations share studios on Westheimer Road near Uptown Houston; KTBU's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.

It was established as a for-profit corporation jointly owned by Charles Dowen Johnson's Humanity Interested Media, Inc. (later Shepherds for the Savior) and John Osteen's Lakewood Church.

[8] When interviewed in 1998, the Vice President of Marketing (and Joel Osteen's brother-in-law) Don Iloff said they would "reluctantly" broadcast sports shows with beer ads.

Governor) Dan Patrick, who was simultaneously the General Manager at KSEV AM radio station; he stepped down from the KTBU in 2001 after the programming problems and scaling back.

In 2006, they sold KTBU to USFR Media Group for $30.5 million to pay down debts associated with their purchase of the former Compaq Center sports arena (now the Lakewood Church Central Campus).

Upon becoming a Tegna property, it was announced that KTBU would take over as the official local television partner of Major League Soccer's Houston Dynamo.

"The Tube" logo, used in 1998.
Former "Houston's 55" logo, used in 2006.