KUTV

KUTV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 34), is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with St. George-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYU (channel 12; which formerly operated as a satellite of KUTV from its 1999 sign-on to 2008). The two stations share studio facilities located on South Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City, and its transmitter is located at Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City.

KUTV's programming is relayed on KMYU's second digital subchannel (VHF digital channel 12.2) 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, and Wyoming.

History

Early history

The station first signed on the air on September 10, 1954, originally operating as an ABC affiliate. The original co-owners were Frank C. Carman & Associates and The Salt Lake Tribune, 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 after his experience with two successful investments in local radio, including KSL radio (1160 AM) and KALL (910 AM, now KWDZ). In 1956, the Carman group sold its interest in the station to A.L. Glasman for the Ogden Standard-Examiner 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 affiliate, trading affiliations with KCPX-TV (channel 4, now KTVX), 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.

KUTV (disambiguation)

KUTV may refer to: