ABC 13 Houston

ABC 13 Houston's 6 p.m. Eyewitness News is the sharpest local broadcast in the city. The reporters dig into school board budgets and water main breaks with the urgency of a national investigation. Rest of the schedule is standard network filler: syndicated court shows during the day, a local magazine at 10 a.m., and ABC primetime after eight. The morning show drags, too many segments feel like branded content. But that's the reality of local TV. As a General tv United States affiliate, this channel earns its keep during weather emergencies. Hurricane season means wall-to-wall live coverage with meteorologists who can actually explain a 500mb chart. You can watch ABC 13 Houston online for free via Tvivu, which saves you the antenna. The signal is clean, and you won't miss the 10 p.m. news while trapped in the suburbs. For transplanted Houstonians, it's a direct line home, the high school football games, the traffic reports, the weird city council drama nobody else covers. ABC 13 Houston live is exactly what local TV should be: flawed, earnest, and indispensable when the weather turns.