Founded in 1952, Fox 7 Austin began as KTBC-TV, the first television station in Austin and Central Texas. It was started by the Texas Broadcasting Company, which was owned by Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, alongside their KTBC radio stations. The idea was to bring television broadcasting to Austin as the city’s first local TV station, expanding from radio into the new world of TV. Today, Fox 7 Austin is owned by Fox Television Stations, through NW Communications of Austin, Inc. Today, Fox 7 Austin and fox7austin.com serve the Austin, Texas area, with studios on East 10th Street in downtown Austin. They cover local news, weather, politics, crime, community stories, traffic, sports, and live video streams. The station is a Fox network outlet and produces more than 50 hours of local newscasts each week, making it one of Austin’s major local TV news sources. One interesting fact: A unique fact about Fox 7 Austin is that Lady Bird Johnson used money from her family inheritance to help buy KTBC-TV, and her work in broadcasting helped make her the first U.S. president’s wife to become a millionaire on her own.