KUTF (channel 12) is a

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licensed to

Logan, Utah Logan is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The 2020 census recorded the population was 52,778. Logan is the county seat of Cache County and the principal city of the Logan metropolitan area, which includes Cache County and Franklin ...

, United States, serving the

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area as an

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of the

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. The station's transmitter is located on Cal Mountain near

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History

The channel 12 frequency in Logan previously belonged to

KUSU-TV KUSU-TV, very high frequency, VHF analog television, analog channel 12, was a non-commercial educational television station city of license, licensed to Logan, Utah, Logan, Utah, United States, which broadcast from 1964 until 1970. The station wa ...

, a

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owned and operated by

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which broadcast from 1964 to 1970, while the call letters KUTF originally belonged to the CW affiliate in

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, now

KRCW-TV KRCW-TV (channel 32) is a television station licensed to Salem, Oregon, United States, serving as the CW outlet for the Portland area. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside CBS affiliate KOIN (chann ...

. KUTF was founded June 9, 2000 and launched on

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, 2001. The station was at one point simulcast on

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low-power K45GX in Salt Lake City. There are now no longer any

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(FCC) records of that repeater. Prior to June 2009, KUTF was a

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television station owned by

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and affiliated with TeleFutura. KUTF was sold at auction to Daystar on April 16, 2009, indicating a programming change is planned. On the digital transition date of June 12, the station's analog transmitter went

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. With

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gaining full control of now former sister station

KUTH-DT KUTH-DT (channel 32) is a television station licensed to Provo, Utah, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision and UniMás networks to Salt Lake City and the state of Utah. The station is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivisio ...

, TeleFutura (now

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) programming was later added to KUTH-DT's second digital subchannel. After Daystar took over in 2009, the station finally completed its digital transmission facilities and resumed broadcasting on April 21, 2010 with Daystar programming.

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, acquired in the same group deal as KUTF, never completed its digital transition and its license was canceled on July 6, 2010. As a result, Daystar programming is seen over-the-air only in the northern half of the market.

Digital television

Because it was granted an original

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after the

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finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital

. Instead, at the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KUTF would have been required to turn off its

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and turn on a

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(called a "

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"). , this station was scheduled to go dark in 2009. According to the station's DTV status report, "On December 8, 2008, the licensee's parent corporation filed a petition for

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relief under

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of the federal bankruptcy code... This station must obtain post-petition financing and court approval before digital facilities may be constructed. The station was originally scheduled to cease analogue broadcasting on February 17, 2009 (but actually continued to air in analogue until the new June 12 date), regardless of whether digital facilities were operational by that date. The station filed authority to remain silent as is required by the

."FCC DTV status report
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extended this deadline to June 12, 2009, Equity had applied for an extension of the digital

in order to retain the

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after the station went dark. The maximum permitted extension is one year, requiring the station return by June 2010 to keep its license.

Subchannels

References

External links

Official website
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