KUTV

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For the Communist International university known as KUTV, see Communist University of the Toilers of the East.

KUTV is the CBS owned and operated station serving the greater Salt Lake City, Utah metro area. The station broadcasts on VHF channel 2 from Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, as well as a variety of translators throughout Utah, Nevada and Wyoming-including a full power satellite, KUSG channel 12, serving the St. George area.

It originally signed on in 1954 as Utah's ABC affiliate, trading affiliations with KCPX-TV (now KTVX) in 1960 and becoming an NBC station.

In 1993, NBC bought KUTV. However, in 1995, NBC sold KUTV to a partnership of Group W and CBS as part of a swap involving stations in Denver, Miami and Philadelphia. NBC then secured an affiliation agreement with longtime CBS affiliate KSL-TV. When Group W's owner, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, merged with CBS in 1996, KUTV became a CBS O&O. It is one of the few stations in the country to have been affiliated with all three original television networks.

At the time, KUTV retained one NBC program: Saturday Night Live, which remained in its Saturday 10:30pm time slot until about five months later.

In 2003, the station moved from a facility in West Valley City to a street-side studio at 299 Main Street in Downtown Salt Lake's Wells Fargo Building. 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. Nearby Gallivan Plaza is also featured in some KUTV programming.

KUTV is one of four CBS-O&O stations that do not follow the CBS Mandate, given the fact it is called 2News as opposed to CBS2 (this branding used on sisters WCBS, WBBM and KCBS. The other four are WCCO in Minneapolis-St. Paul - branded as WCCO 4, KDKA in Pittsburgh - branded as simply KDKA-TV or KDKA-TV 2 (there is a CBS2 logo but residents of Pittsburgh would be upset had this been used "over-the-air") and WJZ-TV in Baltimore - branded as WJZ 13.

KUTV currently has the highest-rated news operation in the Salt Lake City market.

See also

• List of Salt Lake City media

External link

• [2News]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for KUTV]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for KUSG]
• [Aerial photo of KUTV transmitter from Google Local]
• [Aerial photo of KUTV-DT transmitter from Google Local]

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