KUTV
CBS television affiliate in Salt Lake City
KUTV (channel 2) is a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside two independent stations—KJZZ-TV (channel 14) and St. George–licensed KMYU (channel 12 or 2.2), which also airs MyNetworkTV programming. KUTV's studios are located on Main Street in the Wells Fargo Center in downtown Salt Lake City, with transmitter on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City, and a large network of translators throughout Utah and in portions of Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming.
KUTV was the third commercial TV station to start in Salt Lake City, and began broadcasting in September 1954. It was established when the Carman, Wrathall, and Kearns families merged their competing bids for a station, but the main owners during its first four decades were the family of George C. Hatch, who bought a minority stake in the station in 1956 and full ownership in 1971. Originally an ABC affiliate, it switched to NBC in 1960. The station became a solid runner-up in Utah's local news race behind KSL-TV, buoyed by popular on-air personnel such as meteorologist Mark Eubank and anchor Terry Wood. In 1979, the station was moved from downtown Salt Lake City into what became West Valley City.
After the Hatch family bought out other partners in the Ogden Standard-Examiner—which they owned—in 1989, their financial capacity became strained by debt service. KUTV lost Eubank to KSL-TV, and the Hatches sold 88 percent of the station to an investment group led by Veronis Suhler & Associates (VS&A).
The public source identifies “KUTV” as cBS television affiliate in Salt Lake City. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around KUTV, television and affiliate.
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