KUTV
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| 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 (sale to Cerberus Capital Management pending) (KUTV Holdings, Inc.) |
| 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 September 1995, KUTV became a CBS affiliate as part of a complex deal resulting from Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W)'s affiliation deal with CBS. CBS traded its longtime O&O in Philadelphia, WCAU-TV, to NBC in exchange for KCNC-TV in Denver, with KUTV added to the deal as compensation. CBS then sold controllling interest in KUTV to Group W. NBC initially wanted to return to KTVX, but ultimately signed with 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 five 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"), WJZ in Baltimore - branded as WJZ 13, and WBZ in Boston, branded as simply WBZ.
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.
On February 7 , 2007, CBS Corporation reached an agreement to sell seven of its smaller-market stations, including KUTV and KUSG, to Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., for $185 million. [1] The stations are expected to remain CBS affiliates after the sale.
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[edit] Newscasts
Weekdays
- 2 News This Morning (5 to 7:15 AM)
- 2 News at Noon (12 to 1 PM)
- 2 News on KJZZ at 4 (4 to 4:30 PM on KJZZ-TV)
- 2 News on KJZZ at 4:30 (4:30 to 5 PM on KJZZ-TV)
- 2 News at 5 PM (5 to 5:30 PM)
- 2 News at 6 PM (6 to 6:30 PM)
- 2 News on KJZZ at 9 (9 to 9:35 PM on KJZZ-TV)
- 2 News at 10 PM (10 to 10:35 PM)
Weekends
- 2 News This Morning (7 to 8 AM)
- 2 News at 5 PM (5 to 6 PM)
- 2 News on KJZZ at 9 (9 to 9:30 PM on KJZZ-TV)
- KJZZ Talkin' Sports (9:30 to 10 PM on KJZZ-TV)
- 2 News at 10 PM (10 to 10:30 PM)
- Talkin' Sports (10:30 to 11 PM)
[edit] Current Personalities
- Michelle King (Anchor - Weeknights @ 10pm)
- Mark Koelbel (Anchor - Weeknights @ 5, 6, & 10pm)
- Shauna Lake (Anchor - Weeknights @ 5pm & 9pm on KJZZ)
- Bill Gephardt (Consumer Reporter - Weeknights @ 10pm)
- Cristina Flores (Anchor - Weekdays @ 4, 4:30pm on KJZZ; Reporter)
- Fields Moseley (Anchor - Weekdays @ 4, 4:30pm on KJZZ; Reporter)
- Ron Bird (Anchor - Mornings 5-7:15am, Noon)
- Mary Nickles (Anchor - Mornings 5-7:15am, Noon)
- Mike Headrick (Anchor - Mornings 5-7:15am, Noon; Reporter)
- Brian Mullahy (Anchor - Weekends @ 5 & 10pm; Reporter)
- Katie Baker (Anchor - Weekends @ 5 & 10pm; Reporter)
- [[Issa Arnita]] (Anchor - Weekends @ 7am; Reporter)
- Nicole Hunter (Anchor - Weekends @ 7am; Reporter)
- Debbie Worthen (Anchor; Reporter)
- Brian Martin (Anchor; Reporter)
- Rod Decker (Reporter)
- Jeff Jaeger (Reporter)
- Allie Mac Kay (Reporter)
- Kathryn May (Reporter)
- Dan Rascon (Reporter)
- Peter Rosen (Reporter)
- Adam Eakle (Reporter)
- Roland Steadham (Meteorologist - Weekday Afternoons & Evenings)
- Sterling Poulson (Meteorologist - Weekend Evenings)
- John Goulet (Meteorologist - Weekday Mornings)
- Lindsay Storrs (Meteorologist - Weekends Mornings)
- Dave Fox (Sports - Weekday Afternoons & Evenings; Talkin' Sports Sunday Co-host)
- David James (Sports - Weekend Afternoons & Evenings; Talkin' Sports Host)
- Dan Sheldon (Sports - Weekend Mornings; Talkin' Sports Sunday Co-host)
- Reece Stein (Sports)
[edit] Past Personalities
- Shelby Croft (Anchor; now with WISN-TV)
- Doug Miller ('Outdoors' Host; now deceased)
- Kelly Chapman (Reporter; moved to Sacramento KMAX-TV with her meteorologist husband, Jeff James KOVR)
- Lea Ann Lobb (Anchor; whereabouts unknown)
- Phil Riesen (Anchor; now Utah State Congressman)
- John Stehr (Anchor 1982-1989; left for CNBC and CBS News; now primary anchor with WTHR, Indianapolis)
- Terry Wood (Anchor; now with KTVX)
- Bob Evans (Anchor; now with KSTU)
- Ruth Todd (News Brief Anchor; Fill-In Anchor; Reporter; now semi-retired)
- Mark Eubank (Meteorologist; now retired)
- Kevin Eubank (Meteorologist; now with KSL-TV)
- Susan Wood (formerly Susan Furniss; Anchor; now with KTVX)
- Doug Jardine (Anchor; now with 'Profiles in Caring')
- Janeen Golightly (Traffic Reporter; now appearing in freelance projects in the Salt Lake area)
- Marcos Ortiz (Reporter; now with KTVX)
- Larry Warren (Reporter; now with KTVX)
- Fred Wix ('The Gabby Gourmet'; now retired)
- Bill Marcroft (Sports; now retired)
- Chris Dunn (Meteorologist; now with KDVR)
- Rebecca Kolls (formerly Rebecca Reheis; Meteorologist; now with HGTV and ABC's 'Good Morning America')
- Bill Boss (Meteorologist; now with Weather Central, Inc.)
- Tim Ross (Meteorologist; now with WSMV)
- Craig Jenkins (Meteorologist; now fills in on KSTU)
- Jerry Brown (Meteorologist; whereabouts unknown)
- Steve Root (Meteorologist; now CEO of WeatherBank, Inc.)
- Rod Arquette (Reporter; now an executive at KSL)
- Kathy Brock - (Anchor/Reporter 1984-1990, now with WLS-TV)
- Alexis Fernandez (Anchor; whereabouts unknown)
- Randall Carlisle (Anchor; now with KTVX)
- Sloane Brown (Anchor; whereabouts unknown)
[edit] Translators
KUTV extends its coverage throughout the entire state of Utah, plus parts of Arizona, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming, using a network of more than 100 community-owned translator television stations listed below.
[edit] See also
[edit] 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
| Broadcast television in the Salt Lake City/St. George/Provo/Ogden/Orem market (Nielsen DMA #35) |
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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) - KGWR 13 (CBS) - KSTU 13 (Fox) - KJZZ 14 (MNTV) - KUPX 16 (ION) - KTMW 20 (Ind) - K22BK 22 (PBS) - 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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