KUCW
CW television affiliate in Ogden, Utah, United States
KUCW (channel 30) is a television station licensed to Ogden, Utah, United States, serving as the CW network outlet for Salt Lake City and the state of Utah. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside ABC affiliate KTVX (channel 4). The two stations share studios on West 1700 South in Salt Lake City; KUCW's main transmitter is located atop Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, extended by dozens of translators that carry its signal throughout Utah and portions of Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming.
Channel 30 from Ogden came on air in October 1985 as KOOG-TV, an independent station owned by American Communications and Television. It struggled for its first decade-plus on the air with technical issues, some of which resulted from the transmitter being blocked from the Salt Lake Valley by terrain, and poor finances. The station curtailed its general-entertainment programming and spent most of its day broadcasting the Home Shopping Network, which paid KOOG-TV for airtime. The original ownership was sold to Trivest Financial Services in 1991, laid off most employees in 1992, and sold the station in 1994 to Alpha and Omega Communications, a subsidiary of the Salt Lake City–based Miracle Rock Church.
KOOG-TV became Utah's affiliate of The WB upon the network's launch in January 1995. Alpha and Omega agreed to sell the station to Paxson Communications Corporation in 1996; as Paxson programmed infomercials on its stations, this put The WB's future in Utah in doubt. The issue was resolved when Roberts Broadcasting and ACME Communications reached a deal to swap the construction permit for channel 16 to Paxson in exchange for operating channel 30 as a WB station.
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