Editing KPRC-TV (section)

===Sports programming===
Beginning in [[1965 Houston Oilers season|1965]], the [[American Football League]] signed a broadcast deal with [[NFL on NBC|NBC]]. As a result, KPRC-TV became the primary station for regular season games of the [[Houston Oilers]], one of the league's eight founding teams; this continued after the AFL became the [[American Football Conference]] of the [[National Football League]] in [[1970 Houston Oilers season|1970]]. Local Oilers broadcasts ended after the [[1996 NFL season]], when the team relocated to Nashville and eventually became the [[Tennessee Titans]], though Oilers games would continue to be prioritized for broadcast during the [[1997 Tennessee Oilers season|1997 season]], which also turned out to be the last for NBC as the primary broadcaster of Sunday afternoon AFC games. During the team's [[1993 Houston Oilers season|final]] [[1994 Houston Oilers season|years]] [[1995 Houston Oilers season|in]] [[1996 Houston Oilers season|Houston]], the Oilers failed to sell out many home games, subjecting them to [[National Football League television blackout policies|in-market television blackouts]] under league rules at the time in addition to preemption from radio broadcasts locally.

Since [[2006 NFL season|2006]], the station is also involved with Houston's current NFL team, the [[Houston Texans|Texans]] (who began play in [[2002 Houston Texans season|2002]]), in that the station airs games when they are featured on NBC's ''[[NBC Sunday Night Football|Sunday Night Football]]'', as well as broadcasting a Sunday morning pregame show during the season on Sunday afternoon game days.

In addition to Oilers/Texans games, KPRC-TV has aired [[Houston Astros]] games via [[Major League Baseball on NBC|NBC's broadcast contract]] with [[Major League Baseball]] from [[1962 Houston Colt .45s season|1962]] to [[1989 Houston Astros season|1989]]. KPRC-TV also served as the team's over-the-air flagship station from [[1973 Houston Astros season|1973]] to [[1978 Houston Astros season|1978]]. Channel 2 also aired [[Houston Rockets]] games via [[NBA on NBC|NBC's broadcast contract]] with the [[NBA]] from [[1990–91 Houston Rockets season|1990]] to [[2001–02 Houston Rockets season|2002]], including the team's championship victories in [[1994 NBA Finals|1994]] and [[1995 NBA Finals|1995]].

However, KPRC-TV has been known for motorsports preemptions. In 2001, a contract with the [[Miss Texas]] Scholarship Pageant (which predated NBC's [[NASCAR on NBC|acquisition]] of partial NASCAR broadcast rights) did not allow for the program to be rescheduled, resulting in the preemption of the [[2001 Pepsi 400|Firecracker 400]], then televised on NBC under an alternating basis with [[Fox NASCAR|Fox]] (which in return carried the [[Daytona 500]] held at the same track). In 2013, KPRC also preempted coverage of NBC's inaugural [[Formula 1]] telecast of the [[2013 Monaco Grand Prix]] (which aired locally at 6:30&nbsp;a.m. due to time differences between the U.S. and [[Monaco]]) with infomercials and local news. That incident led to Fox owned-and-operated station [[KRIV (TV)|KRIV]] posting on social media that they would air that year's [[2013 Coca-Cola 600|Coca-Cola 600]] live with the tag, "We've been promoting the race as live, and we'll show it live."

In September [[2007 NFL season|2007]], the first half-hour of the [[National Football League Kickoff game|NFL Kickoff]] game between the [[2007 New Orleans Saints season|New Orleans Saints]] and the [[2007 Indianapolis Colts season|Indianapolis Colts]] was shown on KPRC-TV with default audio in [[Spanish language in the United States|Spanish]] rather than [[American English|English]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dalyplanet.blogspot.com/2007/09/nascar-nextel-cup-richmond-in-progress.html|title=The Daly Planet: NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Richmond: In-Progress Comments|website=The Daly Planet|date=September 8, 2007|quote=Hopefully the race broadcast will be in English not like Thursday night's football game on NBC affiliate here in Houston was in Spanish for the first 30 minutes or so. Lots of disgruntled viewers needless to say. Rusty is sure talking way too much!}}</ref> KPRC inadvertently aired the [[secondary audio program]] feed provided by [[Telemundo]] (owned by NBC parent company [[NBCUniversal]]).