KUTV

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KUTV

Salt Lake City, UT
Branding	2News
Slogan	Fresh Air
Channels	2 (VHF) analog, 34 (UHF) digital
Translators	KUSG 12, St. George, UT
Affiliations	CBS
Owner	CBS Corporation
Founded	September 25, 1954
Call letters meaning	K Utah Television
Former affiliations	ABC (1954-60), NBC (1960-95)
Transmitter Power	45.7 kW (analog) 423 kW (digital)
Height	933 m (analog) 1267 m (digital)
Facility ID	35823
Website	www.kutv2.com

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 Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W) as part of a swap involving stations in Denver, Miami and Philadelphia. NBC then secured an affiliation agreement with longtime CBS affiliate KSL-TV, despite initially wanting to affiliate with KTVX (its ABC affiliation was renewed, therefore barring NBC from affiliating with it). Group W then sold a minority interest in KUTV to CBS. 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 in Baltimore - branded as WJZ 13.

KUTV is one of three CBS O&O stations to sign off every weekend, along with WFRV and WJMN in Green Bay, Wisconsin and Escanaba, Michigan, respectively.

[edit] See also

List of Salt Lake City media

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Broadcast television in the Salt Lake City/St. George/Provo/Ogden/Orem market (Nielsen DMA #35)
KUTV 2 / KUSG 12 (CBS) - KCBU 3 (RTN) - KTVX 4 (ABC) - KCSG 4 (A1) - KSL 5 (NBC) - KUED 7 (PBS) - KUEN 9 (Ind) - KENV 10 (NBC) - KBYU 11 (PBS) - KUTF 12 (TFU) - KSTU 13 (Fox) - KJZZ 14 (MNTV) - KUPX 16 (i) - KTMW 20 (Ind) - KPNZ 24 (Ind) - KUCL-LP 26 (3ABN) - KUCW 30 (The CW) - KUTH 32 (UNI) - KKRP-LP 46 (A1) - KSVN-CA 49 / K66FN 66 (AZA) - KEJT-LP 50 / KULX-LP 51 (TEL) - K68FY 68 (TFU)
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