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KSL-TV (channel 5) is a
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in
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, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is the
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television property of locally based Bonneville International, the for-profit broadcasting arm of
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(LDS Church), and is sister to KSL radio (1160 AM and 102.7 FM). The three stations share studios at the Broadcast House building in Salt Lake City's Triad Center; KSL-TV's transmitter is located on Farnsworth Peak in the
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, southwest of Salt Lake City. The station has a large network of broadcast translators that extend its over-the-air coverage throughout
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, as well as portions of
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,
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,
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and
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. KSL-TV is one of a few for-profit U.S. television stations owned by a religious institution (most U.S. TV stations owned by religious institutions are affiliated with
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networks).


History


As a primary CBS affiliate

The station first signed on the air on June 1, 1949, operating from studios in the Union Pacific Building on Main Street. It was owned by the ''
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'', who also owned KSL radio (1160 AM and 100.3 FM, call letters
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). It originally operated as a CBS affiliate, owing to its sister radio station's longtime affiliation with the CBS Radio Network. In addition to its primary CBS affiliation, the station also shared
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programming with NBC affiliate KDYL-TV (channel 4, now KTVX). The two stations continued to share ABC programming until
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(channel 2) signed on in September 1954 as the
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's full-time ABC affiliate. The station also broadcast some programming from the
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, and during the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. A few months after its sign-on, KSL moved its operations to studio facilities at the Broadcast House on Social Hall Avenue. In 1952, a transmission tower was constructed on Farnsworth Peak to improve the station's signal coverage along the
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and into
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. It also began building a massive translator network that eventually stretched across five states. The KSL stations operated as a division of the ''Deseret News'' until 1964, when Bonneville International was formed as the parent company for the LDS Church's broadcasting holdings. Soon afterward, channel 5 began broadcasting its programming in color. In 1984, the station moved to its current facility at Triad Center, also named Broadcast House.


As an NBC affiliate

In July 1994, CBS and
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(Group W) agreed to a long-term affiliation deal for the five Group W television stations, including longtime NBC affiliate
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in
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. That November, NBC agreed to trade their O&O stations KCNC-TV and KUTV (which was acquired by NBC earlier that year) to CBS in return for CBS' former O&O in Philadelphia, WCAU-TV, as a result of a complex ownership deal between the network, Westinghouse and NBC.CBS, NBC Changing Channels
''
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'', November 22, 1994.
NBC also traded their VHF channel 4 frequency and transmitter in
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(then home to
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) to CBS in exchange for the channel 6 frequency in Miami (then home to WCIX, which subsequently became
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). The deal took effect on September 10, 1995, resulting in the first network affiliation switch in Salt Lake City since KTVX swapped affiliations with KUTV and became an ABC affiliate in 1960. Initially, NBC sought to reaffiliate with KTVX; but after that station renewed its affiliation agreement with ABC, NBC then secured an affiliation deal with KSL-TV. KUTV continued to air one NBC program, ''
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'', for five more months until January 1996, when it was moved to then-WB affiliate KOOG-TV (now CW affiliate
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). On January 14, 1999, a shooter entered the station's Broadcast House facility, allegedly looking for a KSL-TV reporter. Anne Sleater, an employee of another company that was housed in the building,
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, was shot during the incident and later died from her injuries. De-Kieu Duy, a 24-year-old female, was arrested in connection with the shooting. Duy was later found mentally incompetent to stand trial and is currently housed in the
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. In 2002, Bruce Christensen was named the president of KSL-TV; Christensen was a former president of
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, the former dean of the
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, as well as a former KSL-TV reporter. During the
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in Salt Lake City, KSL-TV was very influential in bringing coverage and technology to NBC. The station heavily lobbied to NBC that the ceremonies be broadcast live. In July 2010, KSL-TV entered into a
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(LMA) with
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KJZZ-TV (channel 14), after the LMA between that station and KUTV concluded after five years; the LMA was terminated in 2016, after KUTV's owner,
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, purchased KJZZ.


Programming

In addition to locally produced news and sports programs, and syndicated shows, KSL broadcasts most of the programs seen on NBC's schedule. Due to its ties to the LDS Church, KSL-TV also airs programs relevant to
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, such as '' History of the Saints'', '' Music and the Spoken Word'' and ''
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'', and preempts regularly scheduled programming to carry the twice yearly
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. KSL-TV is one of the few remaining television stations in the United States that still "signs off" at night (though only nominally, because programming immediately continues afterward), doing so at 3:30 a.m. on Sundays.


Program preemptions and deferrals

Historically, KSL-TV has been known to occasionally preempt or assign out-of-pattern scheduling to certain network programs, either to make room for other local or syndicated programs or because of internal concerns over subject matter that station management deems objectionable, typically due to conflicts with to longstanding LDS Church beliefs. (Many of these preempted programs have aired instead on KUCW (channel 30) or KMYU (channel 12) over the years.) Preemptions based on content objections have periodically led to inquiries over the sustainability of a religious institution owning a network-affiliated station as content standards and practices in broadcast television have relaxed in recent decades in a reflection of cultural change. As a CBS affiliate, in 1977, '' Match Game'' host Gene Rayburn mentioned that the often risque then-CBS daytime game show was not being aired in Salt Lake City. In 1987, the station was among several affiliates—amid criticism from parental organizations over concerns it would be merely a program-length ad for the controversial namesake toys and trading cards, the show's violent content and humor ridiculing the handicapped—that announced that it would not air the children's animated series '' Garbage Pail Kids'' ahead of its originally scheduled premiere. (Amid the controversy, CBS elected not to air it in the U.S., though its distribution arm syndicated it in some international markets.) In the years leading to its switch to NBC, KSL also preempted the 1989–91
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'' Doctor Doctor'' (partway into its third season in November 1990), and three shorter-lived series—''
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'' (in 1988), prime time
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''
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'' and adult-oriented sitcom '' Grapevine'' (both in 1992)—because of their sexual content. KSL removed '' Picket Fences'' midway through its first season, partly due to objections over a January 1993 episode ("Nuclear Meltdowns") centering on a teenage girl who becomes pregnant through an incestuous plural marriage with a polygamist Mormon and the perpetrator's allusion that, although plural marriage within the LDS Church ceased after the
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(issued in response to Congressional acts to disincorporate and seize assets of the church over the practice), many Mormons still held beliefs in
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. The drama series returned to KSL in its normal network time slot in April 1993 before being shifted to a one-day delay at 11:00 p.m. Saturdays for its second season in September 1993. The station also did not air CBS' late-night lineup from September 1990 until the September 1993 premiere of the ''
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'', and preempted the network's Saturday morning children's program lineup after September 1989. It also was among several Mountain Time CBS stations that aired ''
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'' and its predecessors on a one-hour-ahead basis (from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m.) until it shifted the
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in-pattern in September 1994 to accommodate an expanded (and relocated, as it was moved up two hours to 6:00 a.m.) local morning newscast. As an NBC affiliate, KSL declined to air ''Saturday Night Live'' throughout its first 18 years with the network; despite this, between 1995 and 2013, the station carried all of the long-running sketch comedy's "best-of" compilations, actor tributes, documentary specials and Saturday evening repeats that NBC aired in prime time. Unlike most of the later preemptions, while potentially objectionable content in the series were somewhat an issue for the station (NBC rebuffed KSL management inquiries about delaying ''SNL'' to midnight), the decision was largely made to retain its popular local sports discussion and highlight program ''SportsBeat Saturday''. ''SNL'' initially remained on KUTV under arrangement with CBS until January 1996, before moving to then-WB affiliate KOOG (now KUCW). (KOOG similarly acquired local rights to '' Sunset Beach'', airing the soap opera in lieu of KSL throughout its 1997–99 run.) In June 2013, KSL announced that it would start airing ''SNL'' in its regular timeslot beginning that fall, after revealing that viewership for ''SportsBeat'' had declined in recent years (and was also being beaten by the similar KUTV program ''Talkin' Sports'' in its slot). Content-wise, Channel 5 declined the short-lived 2003 sitcom '' Coupling'' because of its sexual humor and content, and preempted much of NBC's poker programming (such as ''
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'' throughout its 2007–11 run) due to Church, ownership and LDS-member viewers' objections toward gambling. In September 2011, KSL-TV also preempted ''
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'' (replacing it with the locally produced
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''We Are Utah''), on grounds that the fledgling drama was "completely inconsistent" with the station's mission and branding, not wanting to be associated with the Playboy brand, even though the program did not specifically focus on the magazine nor include any nudity. (KSL sponsors "Out in the Light," a campaign aimed at educating Utahns on mental, marital and sociological issues associated with viewing
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.) The program aired on KMYU in its Monday 9:00 p.m. time slot until it was canceled by NBC after its third episode. KSL continued to air already-recorded episodes of ''We Are Utah'' in the 9:00 p.m. slot until the October 31, 2011 premiere of '' Rock Center with Brian Williams''. On August 24, 2012, KSL-TV announced it would not air '' The New Normal'' due to objections to the sitcom's storyline surrounding
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, crude dialogue and potentially offensive characterizations. KUCW ran ''The New Normal'' instead in a Saturday night slot, while channel 5 aired the Live Well Network series ''My Family Recipe Rocks!'' in the sitcom's Tuesday timeslot. In a twist, although the show was canceled after its first season in May 2013, ''The New Normal'' was the first NBC prime time show that KSL has declined to air since it joined the network in 1995 (and the first prime time network show to have been preempted by Channel 5 since ''Picket Fences'') that lasted at least a full season. (Other prime time series declined by the station for objectionable content have, by coincidence due to insufficient national viewership, been among the network's initial cancellation orders during their debut seasons.) On April 29, 2013, KSL-TV pulled ''
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'' after four episodes, due to the drama's graphic violent content and material revolving around the Hannibal Lecter series of novels and films, an action compared by executive producer
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to how Russian newspaper ''
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'' structured its news coverage to fit the Soviet Communist Party's narrative. KUCW aired the program on Saturday nights (initially following ''Saturday Night Live'', before moving to 11:00 p.m. for the show's second season), while ''Hannibal''s regular timeslot was occupied on Channel 5 by the weekly newsmagazine ''KSL In Depth''. ''Hannibal'' was cancelled after its last episode in August 2015, and the station cleared NBC's entire seasonal prime time schedule for the first time in the 2015–16 season. On September 4, 2013, KSL announced it was moving ''
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'' out of daytime to 1:05 a.m., leading out of the network's late-night talk lineup, effective September 9; a local lifestyle program replaced ''Days'' in its former 2:00 p.m. slot (one of the alternate timeslots that NBC assigned for affiliates to air the soap opera). Other than the plausible outcome that locally originated programming in the daytime hour could allow KSL to attain much more ad revenue with a local program, no reason for the move was explicitly stated, with a common theory floated for the move being a storyline involving openly gay characters
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and
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, who later became the first gay couple to be legally married in-canon. It also gave the show a steady DVR-friendly timeslot, where its preemption by
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in an overnight timeslot is much rarer than it would be in the afternoon, reducing overall station complaints. The latter reason is much more likely, as KSL continued to air ''Days'' in late night until the series moved exclusively to
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in September 2022, even with the subsequent "
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" and "resurrection" of Will in the series, and Sonny and Will's summer 2020 departure from the show. Even with its tradition of screening possibly objectionable programs, some, such as ''
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'' (which was not shown by several other NBC affiliates, especially in Bible Belt states) and a paid political message criticizing the
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(which featured
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) have been aired by the station. KSL is one of the few NBC stations in the United States to not air ''
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'', which was offered as a replacement for ''Days of Our Lives''. Consequently, the news program does not air on linear television in the Salt Lake City market, although it is already available on the
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streaming platform nationwide. The NBC-offered overnight repeat of NBC News Now's evening program ''Top Story with Tom Llamas'' airs on KSL in the slot vacated by ''Days''.


Sports programming

Owing to NBC's longstanding contract with the
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(IOC), KSL-TV was the local broadcaster of the 2002 Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City. As host city, NBC excluded KSL from its long-time mandate that its Olympics telecasts be
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on the West Coast (a policy that applied for all other stations, even though the Games were being held in a time zone only an hour ahead of
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). The station also aired Utah Jazz games selected for national broadcast, first through
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from the team's move to Salt Lake City in
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until
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, then
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from
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to
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. The NBC years saw two Jazz appearances in the
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(
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and
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), both ending in losses to
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and the Chicago Bulls.


News operation

KSL-TV presently broadcasts 30½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5½ hours each weekday and 1½ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). Despite its roots in the ''Deseret News'' and its link to KSL radio, channel 5 was initially an also-ran in news. That changed in 1965, when the station poached sportscaster Paul James (better known as the voice of
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and
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) and weatherman Bob Welti from KCPX-TV and teamed them with anchor
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. Within a few months, channel 5 had rocketed into first place. It would be the dominant news station in Utah for most of the next 45 years, garnering some of the highest ratings in the country. Nourse, James and Welti would remain together until 1991, with Nourse staying on as top anchorman until 2007. In 2008, KSL-TV became the second television station in the Salt Lake City market (after KUTV, which converted in April of that year) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in
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. For a long time, the station's newscasts were branded as ''Eyewitness News''; the name was scrapped in 2009 in favor of ''KSL 5 News'', and is now known simply as ''KSL News''. In November 2010, KUTV, long a distant runner-up, unseated KSL-TV in most timeslots, though channel 5 remained ahead at 10 p.m. However, in February 2011, KSL-TV lost the lead at 10 p.m. for the first time in recent memory. In December 2011, KSL-TV restored its lead in every time slot in the Nielsen ratings except one—the early morning news slot on weekdays (in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic), where the station finished in third place. Since then, however, KSL-TV has dropped back to a distant runner-up behind KUTV in most time slots. According to media observers, channel 5's ratings slumped after Mark Willes became president of Deseret Management Corporation, the for-profit arm of the LDS Church and Bonneville's parent company, and abandoned the station's longtime focus on hard news in favor of "values-based" reporting. Willes was fired in 2012, but the station's ratings have yet to recover. It has used the slogan, "News Specialists" or "The News Specialists" in some variation or form since at least the 1980s, while still affiliated with CBS.


Notable former on-air staff

*
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– sports anchor (presently a play-by-play announcer with the Utah Jazz in addition to play-by-play for
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and
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football broadcasts by
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) *
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– weekend anchor (later co-host of CBS' '' The Early Show'') * Paul James – sports anchor (1965–1991, retired; part of Nourse/Welti/James team) *
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– weekday anchor and reporter (later working for
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in
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; now at
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) * Bruce Lindsay – weeknight 5, 6 and 10 p.m. anchor (retired May 23, 2012 after 38 years with KSL) * Dave McCann – anchor (retired 2021) * Jim Nantz – sports anchor (now the lead announcer for
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) *
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– weeknight 10 p.m. anchor (part of Nourse/Welti/James team; retired November 27, 2007 after 43 years with KSL)


Technical information


Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed: On
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, 2009, KSL ended its affiliation with
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on its 5.3 subchannel due to the service's discontinuation by NBC, and relaunched the subchannel as a locally compiled automated weather channel, the ''Live 5 Weather Channel'', which was one of the first local digital weather subchannels in the country to be presented in
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. KSL-TV also carried Universal Sports on its 5.2 subchannel until it began to be exclusively distributed through cable and satellite television in January 2012; it was replaced by Live Well Network in 2013. On January 1, 2014, KSL replaced Live Well Network with
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on digital subchannel 5.2.


Analog-to-digital conversion

KSL-TV shut down its analog signal, over
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channel 5, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.List of Digital Full-Power Stations
The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition
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channel 38, using PSIP to display KSL-TV's
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as 5 on digital television receivers. Effective September 17, 2018, the station moved its digital signal from channel 38 to channel 23, as part of the broadcast spectrum repacking.


Translators


References


External links

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G. Donald Gale collection of KSL editorials, MSS 8013
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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