Our Mission
To empower creators, organizations, businesses, and communities to inform, inspire, educate, and connect — giving every voice the access, training, and platform it needs to be heard across Houston and beyond.
About Houston Media Source
About Houston Media Source
For over 40 years, HMS has empowered community voices through access to media, education, production, storytelling, and civic engagement. Today, HMS is evolving into a global community media ecosystem rooted in Houston and connected to the world.
Our History
Four Decades of Houston Voices
HMS began roughly four decades ago as public access television — a place where any Houston resident could walk in, learn to use a camera, and earn airtime to tell their own story. Long before anyone carried a studio in their pocket, HMS handed the tools of media to the people.
Over the years that simple promise grew into a trusted community institution. Generations of producers, students, nonprofits, and neighborhood leaders have passed through our doors, and the stories they made became a living record of Houston itself.
Our Vision
A community-owned global media ecosystem where every voice can reach the world — where storytelling is shared infrastructure, owned by the people it serves and open to every culture and generation.
Our Values
Five Principles That Guide Us
Integrity
We tell the truth and protect the trust communities place in us, on and off the air.
Inclusion
Every culture, language, and neighborhood has a place and a platform at HMS.
Innovation
We pair four decades of craft with new tools to reach audiences everywhere.
Engagement
We show up for civic life — connecting residents to the decisions that shape their city.
Excellence
Community media should look and sound as good as the stories it carries.
Community Ownership
Diversity at Its Best
HMS is community-owned — owned by the neighborhoods, cultures, and generations it serves. We answer to the people of Houston, not to advertisers or shareholders. Here, diversity is the foundation, not an afterthought; it is the very reason HMS exists and the source of its strength.
- Owned by the community it serves
- Every culture has a platform
- Independent and noncommercial
- Built to outlast any single generation
Join HMS
Be Part of the Next Chapter
Whether you want to produce, learn, sponsor, or simply be seen — there is a place for you in the next forty years of Houston Media Source.