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KUTV (channel 2) is a
television station
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in
Salt Lake City, Utah
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, United States, affiliated with
CBS
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. It is owned by
Sinclair Broadcast Group
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alongside
independent station KJZZ-TV
KJZZ-TV (channel 14) is an independent television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside CBS affiliate KUTV (channel 2) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYU (channel 12) in St. George. The ...
(channel 14) and
St. George–licensed
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV, and sometimes referred to as My Network) is an American commercial broadcast television syndication service and former television network owned by Fox Corporation, operated by its ...
affiliate
KMYU
KMYU (channel 12) is a television station licensed to St. George, Utah, United States, serving as the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the state of Utah. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Salt Lake City–based CBS affiliate KUTV (cha ...
(channel 12, formerly solely a
satellite station
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of KUTV from its 1999 sign-on to 2008). The stations share studios on South Main Street in
downtown Salt Lake City, while KUTV's transmitter is located on
Farnsworth Peak
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in the
Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City.
KUTV's programming is relayed on KMYU's second
digital subchannel
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(
VHF digital channel 12.2, also mapped to 2.1) in
high definition to serve the southern portion of the Salt Lake City market not covered by the KUTV broadcast signal; the station also has a large
network of broadcast translators that extend its over-the-air coverage throughout Utah as well as portions of
Nevada
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and
Wyoming
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.
History
Early history
The station first signed on the air on September 10, 1954, originally operating as an
ABC
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
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* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
affiliate. The original co-owners were Frank C. Carman & Associates and ''
The Salt Lake Tribune
''The Salt Lake Tribune'' is a newspaper published in the city of Salt Lake City, Utah. The ''Tribune'' is owned by The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc., a non-profit corporation. The newspaper's motto is "Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871."
History
...
'', owned by the Kearns-Tribune Corporation. The station originally broadcast from studios located on Social Hall Avenue in downtown Salt Lake City. The deal was spearheaded by ''Tribune'' publisher
John F. Fitzpatrick
John Francis Fitzpatrick (January 18, 1887 - September 11, 1960) was the publisher of ''The Salt Lake Tribune'' from 1924 to 1960. He created the Newspaper Agency Corporation (NAC) in 1952.
Early life
Fitzpatrick was born January 18, 1887, in P ...
after his experience with two successful investments in local radio, including
KSL radio (1160 AM) and KALL (910 AM, now
KWDZ
KWDZ (910 AM) was a broadcast radio station licensed to Salt Lake City, Utah, serving the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The station was owned and operated by iHeartMedia. The KWDZ broadcast license was held by Citicasters Licenses, Inc.
H ...
). In 1956, the Carman group sold its interest in the station to A.L. Glasman for the ''
Ogden Standard-Examiner
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'' and his son-in-law and daughter, George and Gene Hatch. In the reorganization, the Kearns-Tribune Corporation retained a 35% ownership interest until 1970. In 1960, KUTV became the market's
NBC
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affiliate, trading affiliations with KCPX-TV (channel 4, now
KTVX
KTVX (channel 4) is a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Ogden-licensed CW owned-and-operated station KUCW (channel 30). Both stations share studios on ...
), which joined ABC. In 1979, the station relocated its studio facilities to a new building located at 2185 South 3600 West in
West Valley City
West Valley City is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, Salt Lake County and a suburb of Salt Lake City in the U.S. state of Utah. The population was 140,230 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census,
making it the List of cities and towns in ...
.
In August 1994, NBC bought majority control (88%) of KUTV from VS&A Communications Partners (who had purchased majority control of the station in February 1993, leaving the Hatch's with a 12% stake), making it the second network
owned-and-operated station
In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station (frequently abbreviated as an O&O) usually refers to a television or radio station owned by the network with which it is associated. This distinguishes such a station from an affiliate ...
in Utah (
Fox
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had earlier purchased
KSTU
KSTU (channel 13) is a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Provo-licensed Ion Television owned-and-operated station KUPX-TV (channel ...
, channel 13, in 1990, and retained ownership of that station until 2008).
Switch to CBS
In November 1994, KUTV signed an affiliation deal with
CBS
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as part of a complex deal resulting from
Westinghouse Broadcasting
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(Group W)'s affiliation deal with the network which renewed CBS' affiliations with two Group W-owned stations and caused
three
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other
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Other or The Other may also refer to:
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* ''The Other'' (1930 film), a ...
stations to switch to that network. CBS traded its longtime O&O in
Philadelphia
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,
WCAU-TV
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, to NBC in exchange for
KCNC-TV
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in
Denver
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, with KUTV added to the deal as compensation. NBC-owned
WTVJ
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and CBS-owned WCIX (which became
WFOR-TV
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upon the swap) also traded transmitter facilities in
Miami
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as part of the deal. CBS then sold controlling interest in KUTV to Group W. NBC initially wanted to return to KTVX, but ultimately signed with
KSL-TV
KSL-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is the Flagship (broadcasting), flagship television property of locally based Bonneville International, the for-profit bro ...
(channel 5); the deal officially took effect on September 10, 1995. KUTV subsequently became a CBS owned-and-operated station when Group W's parent company,
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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, merged with CBS in late 1995. It is one of the few stations in the country to have been affiliated with all three heritage broadcast television networks, and one of a small number to have been an owned-and-operated station of two different networks. At the time, KUTV retained one NBC program: ''
Saturday Night Live
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,'' which remained in its Saturday 10:30 p.m. timeslot for five more months after the switch, before it moved to KUWB (channel 30, now
KUCW
KUCW (channel 30) is a television station licensed to Ogden, Utah, United States, broadcasting the CW network to Salt Lake City and the state of Utah. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside ABC affi ...
) in February 1996. Under CBS ownership, KUTV was one of five CBS-O&O stations that did not incorporate the CBS name into its branding, given the fact it was branded as "2News" as opposed to "CBS 2".
In 2003, the station moved from its longtime studio facilities in West Valley City to a street-side studio at 299 Main Street in downtown Salt Lake's
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. The move was financed in part by the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency, in the form of $1.2 million in interest free loans. KUTV's newscasts overlook the street, and many segments take advantage of outdoor camera positions. The nearby
Gallivan Center
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Description
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is also featured in some KUTV programs.
On February 7, 2007, CBS Corporation sold seven of its smaller-market O&O stations, including KUTV and KUSG (now KMYU), to
private equity firm
A private equity firm is an investment management company that provides financial backing and makes investments in the private equity of startup or operating companies through a variety of loosely affiliated investment strategies including lev ...
Cerberus Capital Management
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for $185 million. Cerberus then formed a new holding company for the stations,
Four Points Media Group
Four Points Media Group was a holding company owned by Cerberus Capital Management, established in 2007 to serve as a buyer for 7 television stations formerly owned by CBS Corporation.
The company took over the day-to-day operations of the statio ...
, which took over their operations under
local marketing agreement
In North American broadcasting, a local marketing agreement (LMA), or local management agreement, is a contract in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another party. In essence, it is a sort of lease or tim ...
s in late June 2007. The
Federal Communications Commission
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approved the sale in mid-November 2007, and the deal was finalized on January 10, 2008.
On November 26, 2007, KUTV began hubbing master control operations for its then-
sister station
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Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
,
CW affiliate
WLWC
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in
Providence
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* Divine providence, divinely ordained events and outcomes in Christianity
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, which was also sold as part of the Four Points deal. On February 25, 2008, KUTV added three
West Palm Beach, Florida
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stations (
WTVX
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,
WTCN-CA and
WWHB-CA) to this operation. On March 20, 2009,
Nexstar Broadcasting Group
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded media company with headquarter offices in Irving, Texas; Midtown Manhattan; and Chicago, Illinois. The company is the largest television station owner in the United States, owning 197 te ...
took over the management of all of the Four Points stations, including KUTV, under a three-year outsourcing agreement.
On September 8, 2011, Cerberus Capital Management announced the sale of the entire Four Points station group to the
Sinclair Broadcast Group
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for $200 million.
["Sinclair Grabs Four Points Stations for $200 Mil,"]
from ''Broadcasting & Cable'', 9/8/2011 In October, Sinclair began managing the stations, including KUTV, under local marketing agreements following antitrust approval. The deal was completed on January 1, 2012.
However, the Four Points station websites remained operated by Nexstar's interactive unit until early February 2012 when they were migrated to Sinclair's in-house digital interactive platform (Nexstar would subsequently purchase KTVX and KUCW from
Newport Television in August 2012).
On May 8, 2017, Sinclair entered into an agreement to acquire
Tribune Media
Tribune Media Company, also known as Tribune Company, was an American multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Through Tribune Broadcasting, Tribune Media was one of the largest television broadcasting companies, owning 39 ...
—owner of Fox affiliate KSTU—for $3.9 billion, plus the assumption of $2.7 billion in debt held by Tribune, pending regulatory approval by the FCC and the
U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. While KJZZ-TV and KMYU (despite the fact that the latter's city of license, St. George, is technically a sub-market within the statewide Salt Lake City market) are not in conflict with existing FCC in-market ownership rules and would be acquired by Sinclair in any event, the group is precluded from acquiring KSTU directly as broadcasters are not currently allowed to legally own more than two full-power television stations in a single market and both KUTV and KSTU rank among the four highest-rated stations in the Salt Lake City market in total day viewership (Sinclair CEO Christopher Ripley cited Salt Lake City as one of three markets, out of fourteen where ownership conflicts exist between the two groups, where the proposed acquisition would most likely result in divestitures). As such, the companies may be required to sell either KUTV or KSTU to another station group in order to comply with FCC ownership rules and alleviate potential antitrust issues preceding approval of the acquisition; however, a sale of either duopoly to an independent buyer is dependent on later decisions by the FCC regarding local ownership of broadcast television stations and future acts by
Congress
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. Sinclair canceled plans to acquire Tribune Media in August 2018 due to a lack of FCC approval.
News operation
KUTV presently broadcasts 33 hours, 5 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6 hours, 37 minutes each weekday and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays).
Following its sign-on, KUTV became the leading news station in Utah, in part owing to its roots with the ''Salt Lake Tribune''. It lost the #1 position to KSL-TV in 1965 and spent most of the next 45 years as a solid, if usually distant, runner-up to channel 5. It began to decrease KSL-TV's ratings lead after CBS bought the station, culminating with its first-place finish in most timeslots during the November 2010 ratings period. For the February 2011 sweeps period, KUTV even unseated KSL-TV at 10 p.m., resulting in KUTV sweeping all of the news time periods for the first time in its history. May 2011 found KUTV dominating all newscast timeslots in total viewers. KUTV's run at the top was short-lived: In the November 2011 sweeps, KUTV slipped back to second place in most newscasts behind KSL-TV. However, for the February 2012 sweeps period, KUTV regained the lead in households in all newscast timeslots, except at 6 p.m.
From 2007 to 2009, KUTV produced a half-hour early evening newscast for sister station WTVX in West Palm Beach, Florida, titled ''CW West Palm News at 6:30''. The program was anchored by members of KUTV's on-air staff and was broadcast from a separate studio; WTVX added material from two local reporters. On April 19, 2008, beginning with its 5:30 p.m. newscast, KUTV became the first television station in the Salt Lake City market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in
high definition. On June 7, 2009, the station abruptly canceled its weekend morning newscasts; this was followed the next day by the cancellation of the newscast that the station produced for WTVX; as with many newscast cuts at that time, it was likely due to the
Great Recession
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, while WTVX's newscast was stunted by low ratings.
In August 2009, KUTV opted not to renew its lease for its news helicopter as a cost-saving measure, but continues to rent helicopters on an 'as needed' basis. The station also utilized "Chopper 2", a
Harley-Davidson
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chopper motorcycle with a sidecar that is converted into a swiveling camera mount and seat for a camera operator for use in covering traffic accidents, weather reports, and parades. Weekend morning newscasts returned to the station in September 2012, while its weekday morning newscast was also expanded a half-hour early to 4:30 a.m. On September 9, 2014, KUTV moved the 4:00 p.m. newscast to 3:00 p.m., retaining the hour-long format and bringing Utah's even earlier newscast.
Notable former on-air staff
*
Kathy Brock
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Personal ...
– anchor/reporter (1984–1990, later at
WLS-TV
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in
Chicago
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, now retired)
*
Mark Eubank
Mark Edwin Eubank is a retired Salt Lake City, Utah television broadcasting meteorologist who served as chief meteorologist for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Career
Eubank joined the KSL-TV channel 5 Television news team in 1990 as their chief meteor ...
– meteorologist (later with KSL-TV; now retired)
*
Christianne Klein
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– anchor/reporter (now with
KLAS-TV
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in
Las Vegas
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)
*
Ric Romero
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Romero was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the San Fernando Valley, Romero graduated from San José State ...
– ''PM Magazine'' host (1982–1985, later at
KABC-TV
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in
Los Angeles
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, now retired)
*
John Stehr
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He retired as full-time lead ancho ...
– anchor (1982–1989; left for
CNBC
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and
CBS News
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; later primary anchor at
WTHR
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in
Indianapolis
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, now retired)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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. KMYU's simulcast of KUTV's schedule maps to 2:
On April 6, 2009, KUTV began carrying
This TV
This TV (also known as This TV Network and alternately stylized as thisTV) is an American free-to-air television network owned by Allen Media
Broadcast Networks, LLC, part of the Allen Media Group division of Entertainment Studios. Originally fo ...
on its second
digital subchannel
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. On September 20, 2010, both KMYU and KUTV-DT2 added programming from
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV, and sometimes referred to as My Network) is an American commercial broadcast television syndication service and former television network owned by Fox Corporation, operated by its ...
, which brought over-the-air programming from that service back to Salt Lake City proper for the first time since
KJZZ-TV
KJZZ-TV (channel 14) is an independent television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside CBS affiliate KUTV (channel 2) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYU (channel 12) in St. George. The ...
(channel 14) became an independent station in 2008 (former MyNetworkTV affiliate
KCSG
KCSG (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Cedar City, Utah, United States, airing programming from the classic television network MeTV. Owned and operated by network parent Weigel Broadcasting, the station maintains studios on West 16 ...
(channel 14)'s over-the-air signal does not reach Salt Lake City, and thus that station has been carried only on cable). On
January 1
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, 2015, KSL-TV took over as the Salt Lake City affiliate of This TV, and KMYU/KUTV-DT2 began to program traditional syndicated programming outside of MyNetworkTV hours.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KUTV shut down its analog signal, over
VHF channel 2, on June 12, 2009, as part of the
federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.
[List of Digital Full-Power Stations](_blank)
The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition
UHF channel 34,
using
PSIP
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to display KUTV's
virtual channel
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as 2 on digital television receivers.
Translators
References
External links
KUTV.com- KUTV official website
KMYU.tv- KMYU official website
KUTV News Collectiona
University of Utah Digital LibraryMarriott Library Special Collections
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CBS network affiliates
UTV
Television channels and stations established in 1954
1954 establishments in Utah
Mass media in Salt Lake City
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Former General Electric subsidiaries
Former CBS Corporation subsidiaries