KUCW
Encyclopedia
KUCW is the CW-afifliated television station
for the state of Utah
that is licensed to Ogden
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 48 from a transmitter on Farnsworth Peak
. Owned by High Plains Broadcasting, the station is operated through joint sales
and shared services
agreements by Newport Television, LLC. This makes it sister to ABC
affiliate KTVX and the two share studios on West 1700 South in Salt Lake City along I-215
. Syndicated
programming on KUCW includes: King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond
, That '70s Show
, and Tyra
.
KUCW may air programs as an alternate ABC affiliate whenever KTVX cannot do so, such as during breaking news. The station also broadcasts NBC
programming that the network’s affiliate, KSL-TV
, declines to air. The owner of that channel, Bonneville International
, is part of the media division of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A socially conservative religious organization, the LDS Church is known to decline to air some of NBC's programming such as Saturday Night Live
and the short-lived series Coupling
.
(FCC) granted an original construction permit
to build a full-power television station on UHF channel 30 to serve the city of Ogden and the Salt Lake City market
. The new station, owned by Ogden Television Inc., originally identified under its application number (830121KH) but took the call letters KOOG-TV in September 1985. It began operations in October and was licensed on January 16, 1986. Originally, the station’s format was general entertainment airing cartoons, old movies, drama shows, and classic sitcoms. In early-1986, the station began airing Home Shopping Network
(HSN) programming overnights and added the network during midday hours in mid-1987. By 1988, KOOG was programming HSN eighteen hours a day and general entertainment six hours a day.
Ogden Television Inc. went into receivership in 1993 and the station was sold to Miracle Rock Church in a deal finalized in March 1994. Ogden Television was programming approximately eight hours of general entertainment per day while Miracle Rock Church added about an hour per day of religious programming to the schedule and continued to air HSN approximately fifteen hours a day. In January 1995, KOOG became a WB
affiliate and added prime time programming from the network. The following September, it also added cartoons from Kids' WB
. Paxson Communications, having recently failed to complete an agreement to acquire 50% of station KZAR-TV in Provo
(later KUWB now KUPX
), agreed to acquire KOOG in 1996 and the station dropped HSN in favor of Paxson's inTV infomercial network. The sale was finalized in June 1997 and the station continued to air programming from The WB. Almost immediately, Paxson began pursuing a television station swap with KZAR hich was at the time wholly owned by Roberts Broadcasting. The swap proposal was documented in an August 1997 transfer of control agreement between Roberts Broadcasting and ACME Communications
.
At the same time, Paxson was involved in a dispute with Sonic Cable Television of Utah trying to secure must-carry
coverage on Sonic's system in Logan
. Paxson filed a complaint with the FCC at the end of December but their petition was unsuccessful. In February 1998, KOOG became KUPX airing inTV during the daytime, WB programming during prime time, and The Worship Network
overnight. On April 20, 1998, Paxson entered into an agreement with Roberts Broadcasting and ACME Communications in which each station would acquire the other's assets but WB programming would remain on this channel. To expedite the process, the parties immediately entered into LMAs whereby the stations would swap call signs and would begin to operate each other's stations until the FCC could approve the assignments of license. The following day, the stations executed the LMAs. KUPX channel 30 of Ogden became KUWB on 30 and KUWB channel 16 of Provo became KUPX on 16. Paxson continued to own the Ogden station (now KUWB) but operated the new Provo station, KUPX. Meanwhile, Roberts and ACME continued to own KUPX, but operated KUWB.
Upon assuming operations at KUWB, ACME dropped the infomercial and religious programming and replaced it with classic television series and shows. Paxson Communications, Roberts Broadcasting, and ACME Communications filed formal assignment of license applications in May 1998 and the FCC approved the swap in March 1999. In September 1999, ACME (having bought out Roberts Broadcasting's interests) and Paxson consummated the agreement and took full ownership of their respective stations. In time, KUWB began to cut back on cartoons and classic sitcoms and eventually eliminated them altogether in favor of court shows, daytime talk, and reality shows. Afternoon cartoons disappeared in January 2006 when The WB ended the weekday afternoon Kids' WB block. In August 2005, Clear Channel Communications
(owner of KTVX) reached an agreement to buy KUWB from ACME Communications. The sale, completed in April 2006, gave Clear Channel a duopoly
in the Salt Lake City market.
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN
announced that they would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents: CBS
(the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros.
unit of Time Warner
. The sale of KUWB from ACME Communications to Clear Channel became contingent on the ability of the channel to secure the CW affiliation. It was able to get this and the sale of the station was completed. In April, Clear Channel announced plans to affiliate KUWB with The CW , and nearly two weeks later, CW and KUWB announced the official affiliation agreement.
In February, Clear Channel obtained the call letters KUCW and placed them on a Coos Bay, Oregon
satellite of KMTR
in Eugene, Oregon
in anticipation of the acquisition of KUWB. On September 18, 2006, Clear Channel changed the calls of the Coos Bay station to KMCB and moved the KUCW calls to this channel to coincide with the official launch of The CW. On November 16, Clear Channel announced that it would be selling all of its television stations, including KUCW and KTVX, after being bought by private equity firms. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television station group to Providence Equity Partners
. Providence Equity formed a new holding company, Newport Television, for the station group. The deal closed on March 14, 2008.
In May, Newport agreed to sell KUCW and five other stations to High Plains Broadcasting due to an ownership conflict with Univision Communications
(of which Providence Equity holds a 19% stake in). The sale closed on September 15, 2008. Newport retained control of the station via joint sales and shared services agreements. On October 12, 2009, KUCW announced that it had agreed to air Utah State University
football as well as men's and women's basketball games. This agreement will run through the 2012-2013 academic year. Back on October 19, 1960, a full-service educational television station called KWCS began broadcasting licensed to Ogden on analog channel 18. This shut down sometime in the 1970s. Some have linked that station to KOOG-TV 25 years later but the FCC does not as they issued a separate original construction permit for KOOG in 1983.
, was co-founder of The WB and was its CEO at that time. KZAR changed call letters to KUWB in February 1998 and the intellectual unit moved over to analog channel 30 in April 1998 when ACME Communications and Roberts Broadcasting (co-owners of channel 16) and Paxson Communications (owners of channel 30) agreed to allow each other to manage their stations leading up to the station swap which was completed in September 1999.
As a result of the FCC ruling, KUWB-DT was reallocated from UHF channel 17 to channel 48 and its city of license officially moved from Provo to Ogden in the DTV Table of Allotments. The FCC granted a construction permit to build KUWB-DT in October 2001 and ACME Communications applied for a license for the DTV station six months later. The FCC granted the license for KUWB-DT (now KUCW-DT) on October 28, 2002. On June 12, 2009, the station shut off its analog transmitter and began to broadcast exclusively in digital. In April 2011, KUCW 30.2 started airing the digital sub-channel The Country Network
Good Morning Utah
(weekday mornings 7 to 9)
The Daily Dish
(weekday mornings 9 to 10)
ABC 4 News at 9 on CW 30
(weeknights 9 to 9:30)
KUCW features additional personnel from KTVX. See that article for a complete listing.
, Idaho
, Nevada
, and Wyoming
using a network of more than 35 translator television stations listed below. As a result of the June 2009 transition to digital television, a couple of these channels have made the switch as well. However, only full-powered television stations were required to make the change.
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for the state of Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
that is licensed to Ogden
Ogden, Utah
Ogden is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. Ogden serves as the county seat of Weber County. The population was 82,825 according to the 2010 Census. The city served as a major railway hub through much of its history, and still handles a great deal of freight rail traffic which makes it a...
. It broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 48 from a transmitter on Farnsworth Peak
Farnsworth Peak
Farnsworth Peak is a peak located on the northern end of the Oquirrh Mountain range, approximately south west of Salt Lake City, Utah. The mountain is named for Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of the first completely electronic television. It is used mainly for radio and television transmission,...
. Owned by High Plains Broadcasting, the station is operated through joint sales
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
and shared services
Shared services
Shared services refers to the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group. Thus the funding and resourcing of the service is shared and the providing department effectively becomes an...
agreements by Newport Television, LLC. This makes it sister to ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate KTVX and the two share studios on West 1700 South in Salt Lake City along I-215
Interstate 215 (Utah)
Interstate 215 , also known locally as the belt route or two-fifteen, is an auxiliary interstate in the U.S. state of Utah that forms a 270-degree loop around Salt Lake City and many of its suburbs...
. Syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on KUCW includes: King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...
, That '70s Show
That '70s Show
That '70s Show is an American television period sitcom that centers on the lives of a group of teenage friends living in the fictional suburban town of Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17, 1976, to December 31, 1979...
, and Tyra
The Tyra Banks Show
The Tyra Banks Show, also known as and shortened to Tyra or The Tyra Show, is an American talk show hosted by Tyra Banks. The last new episode aired on Friday, May 28, 2010.-2005-2009: Syndication:...
.
KUCW may air programs as an alternate ABC affiliate whenever KTVX cannot do so, such as during breaking news. The station also broadcasts NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
programming that the network’s affiliate, KSL-TV
KSL-TV
KSL-TV, virtual channel 5, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. KSL-TV is owned by Bonneville International Corporation, which is in turn owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
, declines to air. The owner of that channel, Bonneville International
Bonneville International
Bonneville International Corporation is a broadcasting company wholly owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through its for-profit arm, Deseret Management Corporation...
, is part of the media division of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A socially conservative religious organization, the LDS Church is known to decline to air some of NBC's programming such as Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
and the short-lived series Coupling
Coupling (U.S. TV series)
Coupling is a 2003 American remake of the British television sitcom of the same title which aired on NBC.-Reception:It failed to perform in the ratings and was canceled before the November sweeps, with several episodes remaining unaired despite heavy publicity by the network. It was immediately...
.
History
There are two methods of accounting the station's history: by license and by "intellectual unit" which is the combination of a station's call letters, programming, network affiliation, and staff. As the result of local marketing agreements (LMAs) in 1998, which launched a process that culminated in a station swap in 1999, KUCW's license history differs from its intellectual unit history prior to April 21, 1998.License history
On May 24, 1983, the Federal Communications CommissionFederal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) granted an original construction permit
Construction permit
A construction permit or building permit is a permit required in most jurisdictions for new construction, or adding on to pre-existing structures, and in some cases for major renovations. Generally, the new construction must be inspected during construction and after completion to ensure compliance...
to build a full-power television station on UHF channel 30 to serve the city of Ogden and the Salt Lake City market
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...
. The new station, owned by Ogden Television Inc., originally identified under its application number (830121KH) but took the call letters KOOG-TV in September 1985. It began operations in October and was licensed on January 16, 1986. Originally, the station’s format was general entertainment airing cartoons, old movies, drama shows, and classic sitcoms. In early-1986, the station began airing Home Shopping Network
Home Shopping Network
Home Shopping Network or HSN began in 1977 as a 24-hour/7 day a week home shopping television network televised via cable, satellite, and some terrestrial channels in the Philippines. HSN can also be shopped online at hsn.com...
(HSN) programming overnights and added the network during midday hours in mid-1987. By 1988, KOOG was programming HSN eighteen hours a day and general entertainment six hours a day.
Ogden Television Inc. went into receivership in 1993 and the station was sold to Miracle Rock Church in a deal finalized in March 1994. Ogden Television was programming approximately eight hours of general entertainment per day while Miracle Rock Church added about an hour per day of religious programming to the schedule and continued to air HSN approximately fifteen hours a day. In January 1995, KOOG became a WB
The WB Television Network
The WB Television Network is a former television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...
affiliate and added prime time programming from the network. The following September, it also added cartoons from Kids' WB
Kids' WB
Kids' WB! was Warner Bros. American childrens programing division brand for The WB Television Network. In September 2006, the block moved to The CW Television Network. The CW is the result of The WB's merger with UPN in 2006...
. Paxson Communications, having recently failed to complete an agreement to acquire 50% of station KZAR-TV in Provo
Provo, Utah
Provo is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Utah, located about south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. Provo is the county seat of Utah County and lies between the cities of Orem to the north and Springville to the south...
(later KUWB now KUPX
KUPX
KUPX-TV is a full-service television station licensed to Provo, Utah and serving the Salt Lake City market. It is owned and operated by ION Media Networks, formerly Paxson Communications, and owners of the Ion Television network...
), agreed to acquire KOOG in 1996 and the station dropped HSN in favor of Paxson's inTV infomercial network. The sale was finalized in June 1997 and the station continued to air programming from The WB. Almost immediately, Paxson began pursuing a television station swap with KZAR hich was at the time wholly owned by Roberts Broadcasting. The swap proposal was documented in an August 1997 transfer of control agreement between Roberts Broadcasting and ACME Communications
ACME Communications
ACME Communications is a United States-based television broadcasting company. The company was co-founded by current Chairman and former CEO Jamie Kellner, who previously served as a Fox Television Network executive and was founding CEO of The WB Television Network. Kellner used the name Acme as a...
.
At the same time, Paxson was involved in a dispute with Sonic Cable Television of Utah trying to secure must-carry
Must-carry
In cable television, governments apply a must-carry regulation stating that locally-licensed television stations must be carried on a cable provider's system.- Canada :...
coverage on Sonic's system in Logan
Logan, Utah
-Layout of the City:Logan's city grid originates from its Main and Center Street block, with Main Street running north and south, and Center east and west. Each block north, east, south, or west of the origin accumulates in additions of 100 , though some streets have non-numeric names...
. Paxson filed a complaint with the FCC at the end of December but their petition was unsuccessful. In February 1998, KOOG became KUPX airing inTV during the daytime, WB programming during prime time, and The Worship Network
The Worship Network
The Worship Network, or Worship, is a broadcast television service that provides alternative Christian worship-themed programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week...
overnight. On April 20, 1998, Paxson entered into an agreement with Roberts Broadcasting and ACME Communications in which each station would acquire the other's assets but WB programming would remain on this channel. To expedite the process, the parties immediately entered into LMAs whereby the stations would swap call signs and would begin to operate each other's stations until the FCC could approve the assignments of license. The following day, the stations executed the LMAs. KUPX channel 30 of Ogden became KUWB on 30 and KUWB channel 16 of Provo became KUPX on 16. Paxson continued to own the Ogden station (now KUWB) but operated the new Provo station, KUPX. Meanwhile, Roberts and ACME continued to own KUPX, but operated KUWB.
Upon assuming operations at KUWB, ACME dropped the infomercial and religious programming and replaced it with classic television series and shows. Paxson Communications, Roberts Broadcasting, and ACME Communications filed formal assignment of license applications in May 1998 and the FCC approved the swap in March 1999. In September 1999, ACME (having bought out Roberts Broadcasting's interests) and Paxson consummated the agreement and took full ownership of their respective stations. In time, KUWB began to cut back on cartoons and classic sitcoms and eventually eliminated them altogether in favor of court shows, daytime talk, and reality shows. Afternoon cartoons disappeared in January 2006 when The WB ended the weekday afternoon Kids' WB block. In August 2005, Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008...
(owner of KTVX) reached an agreement to buy KUWB from ACME Communications. The sale, completed in April 2006, gave Clear Channel a duopoly
Duopoly (broadcasting)
In United States broadcast television and radio, duopoly is a term used to describe a single company which owns two or more stations in the same city or community....
in the Salt Lake City market.
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
announced that they would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents: CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
(the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
unit of Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
. The sale of KUWB from ACME Communications to Clear Channel became contingent on the ability of the channel to secure the CW affiliation. It was able to get this and the sale of the station was completed. In April, Clear Channel announced plans to affiliate KUWB with The CW , and nearly two weeks later, CW and KUWB announced the official affiliation agreement.
In February, Clear Channel obtained the call letters KUCW and placed them on a Coos Bay, Oregon
Coos Bay, Oregon
Coos Bay is a city located in Coos County, Oregon, United States, where the Coos River enters Coos Bay on the Pacific Ocean. The city borders the city of North Bend, and together they are often referred to as one entity called either Coos Bay-North Bend or the Bay Area...
satellite of KMTR
KMTR
KMTR is the NBC and The CW affiliate television station serving the Eugene/Springfield, Oregon designated market area. Owned by Newport Television, the station reaches additional viewers in central and western Oregon via co-owned full-powered satellite stations KMCB digital channel 22 and KTCW...
in Eugene, Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Eugene is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Lane County. It is located at the south end of the Willamette Valley, at the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast.As of the 2010 U.S...
in anticipation of the acquisition of KUWB. On September 18, 2006, Clear Channel changed the calls of the Coos Bay station to KMCB and moved the KUCW calls to this channel to coincide with the official launch of The CW. On November 16, Clear Channel announced that it would be selling all of its television stations, including KUCW and KTVX, after being bought by private equity firms. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television station group to Providence Equity Partners
Providence Equity Partners
Providence Equity Partners is a global private equity investment firm focused on media, entertainment, communications and information investments...
. Providence Equity formed a new holding company, Newport Television, for the station group. The deal closed on March 14, 2008.
In May, Newport agreed to sell KUCW and five other stations to High Plains Broadcasting due to an ownership conflict with Univision Communications
Univision Communications
Univision Communications is an American Spanish language media company in the United States. Its headquarters are in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Prior to 2007, the headquarters were in Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA.- History :...
(of which Providence Equity holds a 19% stake in). The sale closed on September 15, 2008. Newport retained control of the station via joint sales and shared services agreements. On October 12, 2009, KUCW announced that it had agreed to air Utah State University
Utah State University
Utah State University is a public university located in Logan, Utah. It is a land-grant and space-grant institution and is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities....
football as well as men's and women's basketball games. This agreement will run through the 2012-2013 academic year. Back on October 19, 1960, a full-service educational television station called KWCS began broadcasting licensed to Ogden on analog channel 18. This shut down sometime in the 1970s. Some have linked that station to KOOG-TV 25 years later but the FCC does not as they issued a separate original construction permit for KOOG in 1983.
KUWB intellectual unit history prior to the swap
The KUWB intellectual unit began August 22, 1997 when ACME Communications agreed to acquire 49% ownership of Roberts Broadcasting of Salt Lake City, owners of unbuilt station KZAR-TV on analog channel 16 in Provo, with a second agreement to acquire the remaining 51% after the station commenced on-air operations. ACME was founded in 1997 and concentrated on WB affiliations because its CEO and co-founder, Jamie KellnerJamie Kellner
Jamie Kellner is an American television executive. He was chairman and chief executive officer of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a division of Time Warner which includes TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network. Kellner took over the post in 2001 and handed over the company to Philip Kent in 2003...
, was co-founder of The WB and was its CEO at that time. KZAR changed call letters to KUWB in February 1998 and the intellectual unit moved over to analog channel 30 in April 1998 when ACME Communications and Roberts Broadcasting (co-owners of channel 16) and Paxson Communications (owners of channel 30) agreed to allow each other to manage their stations leading up to the station swap which was completed in September 1999.
Digital television
On April 3, 1997, the FCC adopted its Sixth Report and Order establishing digital television service allotments. In the initial allotment, the FCC assigned UHF channel 17 for KZAR-DT (the companion channel to UHF channel 16 in Provo) later to become KUWB-DT. In the station swap, the allocation for KUWB-DT was treated as part of the KUWB intellectual unit and became the companion channel for Ogden UHF channel 30 although channel 17 was still officially assigned to Provo in the Digital Table of Allotments. ACME Communications filed an application for KUWB-DT in November 1998. In July 1999, KUWB and seven other area channels, collectively known as DTV Utah, proposed significant changes to the Salt Lake City market DTV allocations which were approved by the FCC in May 2000.As a result of the FCC ruling, KUWB-DT was reallocated from UHF channel 17 to channel 48 and its city of license officially moved from Provo to Ogden in the DTV Table of Allotments. The FCC granted a construction permit to build KUWB-DT in October 2001 and ACME Communications applied for a license for the DTV station six months later. The FCC granted the license for KUWB-DT (now KUCW-DT) on October 28, 2002. On June 12, 2009, the station shut off its analog transmitter and began to broadcast exclusively in digital. In April 2011, KUCW 30.2 started airing the digital sub-channel The Country Network
Newscasts
Although KUCW has been a sister station to KTVX since April 2006, it has not aired newscasts produced by that channel. This changed in September 2010 when there was an expansion of local newscasts offered by KTVX. Good Morning Utah expanded to four and a half hours from 4:30 until 9 with the last two seen on KUCW. KTVX added broadcasts weeknights at 4 and 9 with the latter airing on KUCW. In addition, this channel began airing a local entertainment show weekday mornings at 9 on September 7 called The Daily Dish.Good Morning Utah
(weekday mornings 7 to 9)
- Anchors:
- Don Hudson
- Angie Larson
- Weather:
- Marti Skold
- Reporter:
- Brian Carlson
The Daily Dish
(weekday mornings 9 to 10)
- Hosts:
- Reagan Leadbetter
- Nicea Degering
ABC 4 News at 9 on CW 30
(weeknights 9 to 9:30)
- Anchor:
- Robert Maxwell
- Karen Carlson
- Weather
- Roland Steadham
- Sports:
- TBD
KUCW features additional personnel from KTVX. See that article for a complete listing.
Translators
The station extends its coverage throughout the entire state of Utah plus parts of ArizonaArizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
, Idaho
Idaho
Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....
, Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
, and Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...
using a network of more than 35 translator television stations listed below. As a result of the June 2009 transition to digital television, a couple of these channels have made the switch as well. However, only full-powered television stations were required to make the change.
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| Beowawe, Nevada Beowawe, Nevada Beowawe is a ghost town in Eureka County in northeastern Nevada in the western United States. Beowawe is a Paiute Native American word meaning "gate", so named for the peculiar shape of the hills close to town which gives the effect of a gateway opening to the valley beyond. The town is located at... |
K28HE | Heber Heber, Utah Heber City is a city in Wasatch County, Utah, United States. The population was 7,297 at the 2000 census. Heber City was founded by English emigrants who were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the late 1850s, and is named after the Mormon apostle Heber C. Kimball. It is... & Midway, Utah Midway, Utah Midway is a city in Wasatch County, Utah, United States. It is located in the Heber Valley, approximately three miles west of Heber City and 28 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, on the opposite side of the Wasatch Mountains... |
K18GV | Richfield Richfield, Utah Richfield is a city in and the county seat of Sevier County, Utah, in the United States, and is the largest city in southern-central Utah. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,551. It lies in the Mormon Corridor, just off of Interstate 70 about 40 miles east of its junction with... & Monroe, Utah Monroe, Utah Monroe is a city in Sevier County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,256 at the 2010 United States Census. The city is home to both Mystic Hot Springs and South Sevier High School.-Geography:... |
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| Bloomington Bloomington, Utah Bloomington is a populated place in Washington County, Utah, United States, which now forms part of the city of St. George, as a suburb.Access to Bloomington is achieved by "Exit 4" on Interstate 15, or by Tonaquint Drive on the North side of the "Bloomington Circle", a loop that encircles the... , Utah Utah Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the... |
KUWB-LP | Henefer Henefer, Utah Henefer is a town in Summit County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 684 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Henefer is located at .... & Echo, Utah Echo, Utah Echo is a census-designated place located in Summit County, Utah, United States. The population was 56 at the 2010 census. Although Echo has never had a sizable population, the town is historically significant.-History:... |
K29FY | Riverton, Wyoming Riverton, Wyoming Riverton is a city in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. It is both the largest city in the county and the largest within the historical boundaries of the Wind River Indian Reservation. The city's population was 9,310 at the 2000 census... |
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| Cedar City, Utah Cedar City, Utah As of the census of 2000, there were 20,527 people, 6,486 households, and 4,682 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,021.8 people per square mile . There were 7,109 housing units at an average density of 353.9 per square mile... , etc. |
K43JT | Jeffrey City, Wyoming Jeffrey City, Wyoming Jeffrey City is a census-designated place and former uranium mining boomtown located in Fremont County, in the central part of the U.S. state of Wyoming. The town is famous in Wyoming and the American West as symbol of a boomtown that went “bust” very quickly, as the mine was shut down in 1982... |
K13NW | Rock Springs, Wyoming Rock Springs, Wyoming Rock Springs is a city in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 18,708 at the 2000 census. Rock Springs is the principal city of the Rock Springs micropolitan statistical area, which has a population of 37,975.... |
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| Coalville, Utah Coalville, Utah Coalville is a city in Summit County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,382 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Summit County... and adjoining area |
K24GF | Kanarraville, Utah Kanarraville, Utah Kanarraville is a town in Iron County, Utah, United States. The population was 311 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Kanarraville is located at .... |
K47HU | Rural Beaver, Utah Beaver, Utah Beaver is a city in Beaver County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,454 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Beaver County.Settled by Mormon pioneers in 1856, Beaver was one of a string of Mormon settlements extending the length of Utah... , etc. |
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| Coalville, Utah Coalville, Utah Coalville is a city in Summit County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,382 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Summit County... and adjoining area |
K28IP | Leamington, Utah Leamington, Utah Leamington is a town in Millard County, Utah, United States. The population was 217 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Leamington is located at .... |
K42FR | Rural Summit County, Utah Summit County, Utah Summit County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah, occupying a rugged and mountainous area. In 2010 its population was 36,324. It is part of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Salt Lake City–Ogden–Clearfield Combined Statistical Area. The county is... |
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| Delta, Utah Delta, Utah Delta is a city in Millard County, Utah, United States. The population was 3,209 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Delta is located at .... |
K49HA | Mountain View, Wyoming | K31FW | Salina, Utah Salina, Utah Salina is a city in Sevier County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,393 at the 2000 census.-History:The first permanent settlers moved into the area in 1864 at the direction of leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints... |
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| Delta, Utah Delta, Utah Delta is a city in Millard County, Utah, United States. The population was 3,209 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Delta is located at .... , etc. |
K45GE | Myton, Utah Myton, Utah Myton is a city in Duchesne County, Utah, United States. Established in 1905, Myton had a population of 539 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Myton is located at .... |
K14LW | Samak, Utah Samak, Utah Samak is a census-designated place in Summit County, Utah, United States. The population was 161 at the 2000 census. The name is simply the reversal of the name of the nearby city of Kamas.-Geography:Samak is located at .... |
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| Duchesne, Utah Duchesne, Utah Duchesne is a city in and the county seat of Duchesne County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,690 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Duchesne city is located at . just west of the junction of the Strawberry and Duchesne rivers in the Uintah Basin of northeastern Utah... |
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K40HSK40HS | New Castle, Utah, etc. | K51GS | Santa Clara Santa Clara, Utah Santa Clara is a city in Washington County, Utah, United States. The population was 4,630 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.9 square miles , of which, 4.9 square miles of it is land and 0.04 square miles of it... & Washington, Utah Washington, Utah Washington is a city in Washington County, Utah, United States. The population was 8,186 at the 2000 census, and 18,761 as of the 2010 Census. Washington is east of St... |
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| Elko, Nevada Elko, Nevada Elko is a city in Elko County, Nevada, United States. The population was 18,297 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Elko County. The city straddles the Humboldt River.... |
K34HE | Park City, Utah Park City, Utah Park City is a town in Summit and Wasatch counties in the U.S. state of Utah. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back. The city is southeast of downtown Salt Lake City and from Salt Lake City's east edge of Sugar House along Interstate 80. The population was 7,558 at the 2010 census... , etc. |
K39HP | Scipio, Utah Scipio, Utah Scipio is a town in Millard County, Utah, United States. The population was 290 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Scipio is located at .... |
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| Elko, Nevada Elko, Nevada Elko is a city in Elko County, Nevada, United States. The population was 18,297 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Elko County. The city straddles the Humboldt River.... |
K38IF | Park City, Utah Park City, Utah Park City is a town in Summit and Wasatch counties in the U.S. state of Utah. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back. The city is southeast of downtown Salt Lake City and from Salt Lake City's east edge of Sugar House along Interstate 80. The population was 7,558 at the 2010 census... |
K33FY | Soda Springs, Idaho Soda Springs, Idaho Soda Springs is a city in Caribou County, Idaho, United States. The population was 3,381 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Caribou County.... , etc. |
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| Evanston, Wyoming Evanston, Wyoming Evanston is a city in Uinta County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 12,359 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Uinta County.-Geography:Evanston is located at... |
K28DV | Parowan, Utah Parowan, Utah Parowan is a city in and the county seat of Iron County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,790 at the 2010 census.Parowan became the first incorporated city in Iron County in 1851. A fort that had been constructed on the east side of Center Creek the previous year was an initial in the... , etc. |
K48FJ | Wanship, Utah Wanship, Utah Wanship is a census-designated place in Summit County, Utah, United States. The population was 400 at the 2010 census.Wanship is located at the intersection of Interstate 80 and Utah State Route 32, at the junction of Silver Creek and the Weber River. It is from Salt Lake City, and from Coalville... |
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