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KTVX, virtual channel 4, is the ABC-affiliated television station for the state of Utah that is licensed to Salt Lake City. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 40 from a transmitter on Farnsworth Peak. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 4 and in high definition on digital channel 652. Owned by Newport Television, KTVX operates CW affiliate KUCW (owned by High Plains Broadcasting Inc.) through joint sales and shared services agreements. The two share studios on West 1700 South in Salt Lake City along I-215. Syndicated programming on the station includes: Two and a Half Men, The Doctors, Ellen, and Live with Regis and Kelly.

History

KTVX signed-on as Utah's first television station in November 1946 under the experimental call sign W6XIS. It began broadcasting regularly on April 19, 1948 [1] as KDYL-TV owned by Sid Fox and his Mountain Broadcasting Corporation along with KDYL radio (AM 1060 and FM 98.7 now KBEE). The floor in the first studio was sloped and cameras would easily roll. The original analog transmitter sat on the top of the Walker Bank Building. The station was originally an NBC affiliate owing to KDYL-AM's long relationship with NBC Radio and had been one of the network's original 26 affiliates when it premiered in 1926. This channel is the oldest station in the Mountain Time Zone and the third oldest west of the Mississippi River. It was the first independently-owned channel to sign-on in America. [1] The station changed its call letters to KTVT in 1953, KCPX-TV in 1959, and finally KTVX in 1975. The second call letters are now by the CBS affiliate in Dallas, Texas. The change of call letters to KCPX came with the sale to Screen Gems Broadcasting, a division of Screen Gems, then the television division of Columbia Pictures.

For a brief period during the mid-1950s, it was owned by Time Life Inc. The channel adopted its present-day call letters when United Television (then the broadcasting division of 20th Century Fox) acquired the station from Screen Gems. The channel swapped affiliations with KUTV in 1960 and became an ABC affiliate. Some of the memorable shows from the 1960s included Fireman Frank and Nightmare Theater which were both hosted by Ron Ross. At this time, the station was using a popular "Open 4" logo that was later implemented by WAPA-TV in San Juan, Puerto Rico. That station used several variations of the logo from the 1970s until implementing a new logo in 1990. [2] [3]

In 1975 when the station changed its call letters to KTVX, the title for the newscasts was NewsCenter 4. This was the first news title under the current call letters and lasted until 1981. The KTVX call letters were formerly used by KTUL-TV in Tulsa, Oklahoma which is also an ABC affiliate. In 1981, United Television merged with Chris-Craft Industries. After Chris-Craft's stations were sold to Fox (briefly bringing KTVX and KMOL back under common ownership with 20th Century Fox while a third ex-United station, then-UPN affiliate KMSP-TV in the Twin Cities, eventually became a Fox O&O outright when the network moved from WFTC in 2002), KTVX and KMOL (now WOAI-TV) in San Antonio were traded to Clear Channel Communications for WFTC.

Since Fox already owned KSTU, it was forced to sell KTVX due to current Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations prohibiting one company from owning two of the four highest-ranked stations in a single market. KTVX was traded because it had a long-term ABC affiliation. Fox also wanted to offer an attractive package to Clear Channel for WFTC. KTVX was the only Chris-Craft owned station to have never been affiliated with UPN during the time Chris-Craft owned a partial stake in the network. In August 2005, President George W. Bush visited Salt Lake City to speak to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Cindy Sheehan appeared in a paid political message protesting the Iraq War and the ad was submitted to the top four stations in the market (KSL-TV, KSTU, KTVX, and KUTV). KTVX management declined the offer saying that "the content could very well be offensive to our community in Utah, which has contributed more than its fair share of fighting soldiers and suffered significant loss of life in this Iraq war." [4] KTVX aired "TheHive TV" on its second digital subchannel which featured locally-produced programs and sports by residents in the Salt Lake City area. The schedule resembled a cable public access but because the subchannel must conform to FCC content guidelines, externally-produced programs were approved by the station before they was aired. This service shut down in December 2008 and was replaced in January 2009 by Untamed Sports TV of which KTVX-DT2 is the flagship station.

On November 16, 2006, Clear Channel announced plans to sell all of its television stations, including KTVX, [5] after being bought by private equity firms. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Providence Equity Partners's Newport Television. [6] That company closed on the station group on March 14, 2008. In May, Newport Television agreed to sell KTVX and five other stations to High Plains Broadcasting because of an ownership conflict. Newport would have continued to operate KTVX through a joint sales agreement after the sale was finalized. [7] However on August 22, the channel was removed from the sale after Univision Communications, owner of KUTH and of which Providence Equity Partners holds a 19% stake, canceled its plans to purchase KUTF thus alleviating the need to sell KTVX (although sister station KUCW was eventually sold to High Plains Broadcasting but remains managed by Newport Television). [8] KUTF has since been sold to the Daystar Television Network. As a result, KTVX remains owned by Newport Television. On June 12, 2009, it ended analog broadcasts and began to transmit exclusively digitally. [9]

Digital programming

On KTVX-DT2 and Comcast digital channel 104 is Untamed Sports TV.

Channel Video Aspect Programming
4.1 720p 16:9 main KTVX programming/ABC HD
4.2 480i 4:3 KTVX-DT2 Untamed Sports TV

News operation

KTVX airs a local lifestyle/entertainment show called Good Things Utah weekday mornings at 10 a.m. There is also a Sunday morning public affairs program known as On the Record. On April 26, 2010, KTVX debuted its new high definition newscasts with a new HD news set and graphics. [10]

Starting in September 2010, there was an expansion of local newscasts offered by the station. Good Morning Utah expanded to four and a half hours from 4:30-9 a.m. with the last two seen on KUCW. KTVX added additional newscasts weekday afternoons at 4 p.m. on KTVX and weeknights at 9 p.m. on KUCW. In addition, KUCW began airing a local entertainment show called The Daily Dish on September 7.[11]

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

Station slogans

News team

Current on-air staff[12]

Anchors/local program hosts

  • Robert Maxwell - weeknights at 4, 5, 6, and 10 p.m. (also 9 p.m. on KUCW)
  • Karen Carlson - weeknights at 4, 5, 6, and 10 p.m. (also 9 p.m. on KUCW)
  • Jon Du Pre - weekend evenings; also weeknight reporter and "Unsolved Cases" and "Crime Tracker" segments producer
  • Don Hudson - weekday mornings
  • Angie Larson - weekday mornings; also host of Good Things Utah
  • Reagan Leadbetter - host of Good Things Utah and The Daily Dish; also reporter
  • Nicea Degering - host of Good Things Utah and The Daily Dish

4WARN Weather First

  • Roland Steadham (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weekdays at 4, weeknights at 5, 6, 9 (on KUCW) and 10 p.m.
  • Marti Skold - weather announcer; weekday mornings and Good Things Utah host
  • Joe Chevalier - meteorologist; weekend evenings

ABC 4 Sports Zone and Red Zone

  • Wesley Ruff - sports director; weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
  • Dana Greene - sports anchor; weeknights at 5 p.m. and sports reporter
  • TBD - sports anchor; weeknights at 9 p.m. (on KUCW)
  • Emerson Lotzia - sports anchor; weekend evenings; also sports reporter

Reporters

  • Noah Bond - 10 p.m. reporter
  • Brian Carlson - weekday morning reporter
  • Emily Clark - general assignment reporter
  • Annie Cutler - general assignment reporter
  • Kimberly Houk - general assignment reporter
  • Brent Hunsaker - general assignment reporter
  • Dan Metcalf - film critic; also executive producer of online media
  • Kelli O'Hara - investigative reporter
  • Marcos Ortiz - general assignment reporter
  • Barbara Smith - general assignment reporter
  • Chris Vanocur - general assignment reporter; also host of On the Record
  • Robert Walz - general assignment reporter

Translators

KTVX 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 translators listed below. As a result of the June 2009 transition to digital broadcasting, a few of these translators have made the change as well. However, only full powered television stations were required to make the switch.

List of translators
City Callsign City Callsign City Callsign
Alton, Utah K09NV Huntsville, Utah, etc. K10DT Preston, Idaho K31FR
Antimony, Utah K02FA Kanab, Utah K32DC Preston, Idaho K42GN
Apple Valley, Utah K34CX Kanarraville, Utah K10CK Price, Utah, etc. K45FW
Aurora, Utah, etc. K51BK-D Koosharem, Utah K10CU Randolph, Utah K11BF
Beaver, Utah, etc. K11CX Labarge & Big Piney, Wyoming K06FD Randolph & Woodruff, Utah K34FR
Bigelow Bench Area, Wyoming K40BX Laketown, Utah, etc. K10LM Richfield, Utah, etc. K06BQ
Blanding, Utah, etc. K44AG Leamington, Utah K08MC Richfield, Utah, etc. K33JF-D
Boulder, Utah K10JG Loa, Utah, Etc. K06BS Roosevelt, Utah, etc. K10DD
Brian Head & Parowan, Utah K49HC Logan, Utah K43GR Rural Beaver County, Utah K18FU-D
Caineville, Utah K11LZ Long Valley Junction, Utah K06FM Rural Garfield County, Utah K18FT
Capitol Reef National Park, Utah K10IV Lund & Preston, Nevada K08CB Rural Garfield County, Utah K51AH
Cedar Canyon, Utah K06JA Malad City, Idaho K54AS Rural Sevier County, Utah K45FT
Cedar City, Utah K11CQ Manti, Utah, etc. K11FP Ruth, Nevada K07DV
Circleville, Utah K09FX Manti, Utah, etc. K24HJ-D Saint George, Utah K25JS-D
Delta, Utah, etc. K35GC Marysvale, Utah K04BO Saint George, Utah K69CT
Duchesne, Utah K10DE Mayfield, Utah K09JH Samak, Utah K11SX
East Price, Utah K04IW Mink Creek, Idaho K10FF Scipio & Holden, Utah K10EB
Elko, Nevada K50CA Modena, Utah, etc. K17FF Scofield, Utah K10CL
Ely, Nevada K34CM Montpelier, Idaho K33DR Sigurd & Salina, Utah K10CT
Emery, Utah K39DV Morgan, Utah, etc. K10FW Sigurd & Salina, Utah K20JA-D
Enterprise, Utah K05BU Mount Pleasant, Utah K10CH Spring Glen, Utah, etc. K10AZ
Escalante, Utah K04FR Mountain View, Utah, etc. K25EE Steptoe & Ruby Valley, Nevada K10KL
Eureka, Utah K43DA Mountain View, Wyoming, etc. K11DN Summit County, Utah K51FY
Fillmore, Utah, Etc. K40GD Murray Canyon, Nevada, etc. K07DU Teasdale & Torrey, Utah K04BN
Fish Lake Resort, Utah K06FL Myton, Utah K19EY Ticaboo, Utah K04OJ
Fruitland, Utah K10KN Navajo Mountain School, Utah, etc. K04PP Toquerville, Utah K31IS-D
Garrison, Utah, etc. K11NP Oljeto, Utah K04OZ Tropic, Utah, etc. K04IN
Green River, Utah K04BR Orangeville, Utah K32FR Utahn, Utah K07VL
Green River, Utah K11DD Orderville, Utah K04EK Vernal, Utah, etc. K07CY
Hanksville, Utah K09LC Overton, Nevada, etc. K66CB Virgin, Utah K13QK
Hatch, Utah K11NA Panguitch, Utah K04AU Wanship, Utah K08JE
Heber & Midway, Utah K31FP Park City, Utah, etc. K31FQ Washington, Utah, etc. K28EA
Helper, Utah K13BZ Parowan, Utah K34AG Washington, Utah, etc. K52KG-D
Henefer, Utah, etc. K10AY Peoa & Oakley, Utah K10JB Wendover, Utah K10ES
Henrieville, Utah K09XF Pine Valley, Utah, Etc. K11OO Woodland & Kamas, Utah K50AC
Hildale, Utah, etc. K09SU

References

  1. ^ a b KTVX history
  2. ^ http://www.mcsittel.com/html/tvg-uid.htm
  3. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dukG29x7_2U
  4. ^ Associated Press. "TV station refuses to air anti-war ad days before Bush visit," USA Today, August 21, 2005.
  5. ^ "Clear Channel agrees to sale". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Gannett Company. 2006-11-16. Retrieved 2006-11-17. [dead link]
  6. ^ "Clear Channel Agrees to Sell Television Station Group to Providence Equity Partners" (Press release). Clear Channel Communications. 2007-04-20. Retrieved 2007-04-20.
  7. ^ Fresno's KGPE has new owner
  8. ^ "APPLICATION FOR CONSENT TO ASSIGNMENT OF BROADCAST STATION CONSTRUCTION PERMIT OR LICENSE". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. 2008-09-04. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
  9. ^ http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11665656
  10. ^ http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top%20stories/story/KTVX-TV-launches-high-definition-newscasts/kM9qMVqAYk2o2AUxNpeZyA.cspx
  11. ^ http://www.tvnewscheck.com/articles/2010/08/18/daily.4/
  12. ^ http://www.abc4.com/content/about_4/bios/default.aspx

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