| St. George/Salt Lake City, Utah | |
|---|---|
| Branding | My Utah TV |
| Channels | Digital: 9 (VHF) Virtual: 12 (PSIP) |
| Translators | KUTV 2.2 Salt Lake City |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV This TV (secondary) |
| Owner | Sinclair Broadcast Group (KUTV Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | August 21, 1999 |
| Call letters' meaning | K MY Utah |
| Sister station(s) | KUTV |
| Former callsigns | KUSG (1999-2010) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 12 (VHF, 1999-2009) |
| Former affiliations | CBS, via KUTV (1999-2008) RTV (2008-2009) |
| Transmitter power | 3.2 kW |
| Height | 43 m |
| Facility ID | 35822 |
| Transmitter coordinates | (atop Webb Hill) |
| Website | www.kmyu.tv |
KMYU, channel 12 (digital 9), is a full-service television station in St. George, Utah that serves as the MyNetworkTV and ThisTV affiliate for the state of Utah. The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Since KMYU's transmitter only covers the southern portion of the state, KUTV offers KMYU's programming on a digital subchannel.[1] The station also broadcasts Real Salt Lake games[1] and Southern Utah University sports.[2]
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The original construction permit for channel 12 was granted on May 23, 1988[3], and the station was assigned the call letters KUSG on September 11, 1989[4], but a license was not granted until January 24, 2000[5]. When KUSG first signed on August 21, 1999, it was operated as a satellite station for KUTV, at that time a CBS owned-and-operated station. CBS sold the stations (along with five other smaller-market stations) to Four Points on January 10, 2008[6] (in a deal first announced on February 7, 2007[7]).
On March 17, 2008, KUSG split from KUTV and became a separate station, operating as a Retro Television Network affiliate for St. George; the station has estimated this has left a small number of viewers without KUTV programming.[8]
Initially, KUSG's RTN programming was relayed on KUBX-LP channel 58 and KCBU channel 3, both owned by original RTN owner Equity Media Holdings, which brought the station's programming into Salt Lake City. However, on January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity and Luken Communications, L.L.C. (who had acquired RTN in June 2008) interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates.[9] As a result, Luken moved RTN operations to its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and dropped all Equity-owned affiliates, including KUBX and KCBU, immediately.[10]. KUBX and KCBU were later sold to the Daystar Television Network; KUBX is currently silent while KCBU never completed its digital transition and went off the air for good. KUSG itself was not affected (aside from the aforementioned interruption in network programming), as it is not an Equity station, but its satellite and Salt Lake City-area Comcast coverage was lost, as they received the station's programming via KUBX/KCBU.[11]
As of June 2009[update], KUSG had dropped RTN (which rebranded to RTV that month) for This TV[1]; RTV has since moved to KCSG. The station again changed affiliations on September 20, 2010, joining MyNetworkTV.[2] KUSG retained This TV programming as a secondary affiliation. This switch briefly made it one of two MyNetworkTV affiliates serving the geographically large Utah media market, along with KCSG. The call letters were changed to KMYU on November 16, 2010.[4]
In September and early October 2011, the station aired NBC's new period drama The Playboy Club in lieu of KSL-TV, which refused to air it due to management concerns about content and the program's promotion of Playboy magazine. The program aired at NBC's original Monday night at 9pm MT timeslot for the series on KMYU[12]. Like Coupling in 2003 however, which KSL also declined to air and aired on the then-KUWB, it only aired three episodes before the network made it the first canceled new series of the new television season [13].
On September 8, 2011, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced its intent to purchase Four Points from Cerberus Capital Management for $200 million; Sinclair will begin managing the stations, including KMYU, under local marketing agreements following antitrust approval, until the close of the sale, which is expected in early 2012.[14] The deal was completed on January 3, 2012. [15]
Currently, KUTV produces a 7 p.m. newscast, My News at 7, for the station, delaying MyNetworkTV programming by one hour; KMYU also simulcasts KUTV's 10 p.m. newscast. Periodic southern Utah-oriented news updates are also aired on the station.[16]
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