KUED
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| Salt Lake City, Utah United States | |
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| Branding | KUED 7 |
| Slogan | TV Worth Watching |
| Channels |
Digital: 42 (UHF) Virtual: 7 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels |
7.1 PBS 7.2 KUED World 7.3 V-me |
| Affiliations | PBS (2006–present) |
| Owner | University of Utah |
| First air date | January 20, 1958 |
| Call letters' meaning | Utah EDucation |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 7 (VHF, 1958–2009) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1958–1970) |
| Transmitter power | 239 kW |
| Height | 1266 m |
| Facility ID | 69396 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°39′33″N 112°12′7″W / 40.65917°N 112.20194°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.kued.org |
KUED, virtual channel 7 (UHF digital channel 42), is a PBS member television station located in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The station is owned by the University of Utah. KUED maintains studio facilities and offices located on Wasatch Drive in the northeastern section of Salt Lake City, and its transmitter is located on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City. The station has a large network of broadcast translators that extend its over-the-air coverage throughout Utah. It is one of two PBS member stations serving Utah, the other being KBYU-TV (channel 11).
History
The station first signed on the air on January 20, 1958, with an episode of The Friendly Giant. The station originally broadcast from improvised studios set up in the basement of the old student union building on the University of Utah campus. The station had humble beginnings with no props, primitive equipment, and a donated transmitter, thanks to Time-Life Inc., then-owners of KTVT (channel 4, now KTVX). A US$100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation made it possible from KUED to sign on the air.
Early programming was purely educational, in some cases consisting of nothing more than a teacher standing in front of a chalk board and lecturing. About half of the programs aired were locally-produced, with the rest coming from National Educational Television (NET) and other sources. When the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) succeeded NET in 1970, the focus of programming changed to educational and entertainment programming.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming[1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KUED-HD | Main KUED programming / PBS |
| 7.2 | 480i | World | World | |
| 7.3 | 4:3 | V-me | V-me |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KUED shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 42.[2][3] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 7.
Rebroadcasters
KUED has two full power relay stations serving rural areas of Utah, both digital-only:
| Station | City of license | Channel | First air date | ERP | HAAT | Facility ID | Transmitter Coordinates |
| KUES | Richfield | 19 (UHF) | 2000 | 0.33 kW | 441 m | 82576 | 38°38′5.2″N 112°3′36.7″W / 38.634778°N 112.060194°W |
| KUEW | St. George | 18 (UHF) | 2002 | 1.62 kW | 66.5 m | 82585 | 37°3′50″N 113°34′23″W / 37.06389°N 113.57306°W |
Additionally, KUED can be seen on over 85 translator stations covering all of Utah, plus parts of Arizona, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming.
Related stations
References
- ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KUED
- ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.
- ↑ [http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11628657 Congress delays digital TV switch until June; Utah sticks to original cutoff, Vince Horiuchi, Salt Lake Tribune February 4, 2009
External links
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KUED
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KUES
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KUEW
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KUED-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KUES-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KUEW-TV
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