KUHT, virtual channel and VHF digital channel 8, is a PBS member television station located in Houston, Texas, United States. The first public television station in the United States, it is owned by and licensed to the University of Houston System. Along with NPR radio station KUHF, it forms Houston Public Media. KUHT maintains studio and office facilities are located in the Melcher Center for Public Broadcasting on the campus of the University of Houston, and its transmitter is located in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County (near Missouri City).