KUEN
educational independent TV station in Ogden, Utah
KUEN (channel 9) is an educational television station licensed to Ogden, Utah, United States, serving Salt Lake City and the state of Utah. Its main channel broadcasts the PBS Kids 24/7 service. The station is owned by the University of Utah (U of U) alongside KUED (channel 7) and KUER-FM radio and operates from the Eccles Broadcast Center on the U of U campus; its transmitter is located at Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City, and is extended by dozens of broadcast translators across the state.
Channel 9, an educational channel since 1962, had been unused since 1973, when KOET was shut down by the Ogden school board. Weber State College obtained a construction permit to reactivate channel 9 in 1984, but it lacked funding to construct or operate the station. The permit was transferred to the Utah Board of Higher Education in 1985, and construction and operation of channel 9 was assigned to the University of Utah. The station began broadcasting on December 1, 1986, as KULC ("Utah's Learning Channel") with a selection of telecourses for college credit from institutions across the state.
In 1989, the Utah Education Network (UEN) was formed to coordinate this activity and, ultimately, internet connectivity for public schools in Utah. KULC, along with the University of Utah's public broadcasting stations, moved into the Eccles Broadcast Center in 1993. As part of efforts to reinforce the brand of its parent, KULC changed its call sign to KUEN in 2004 and became known as UEN-TV. The station offered educational programming, secondary public television programming from independent producers, and a limited amount of local production.
“KUEN” enters the record as educational independent TV station in Ogden, Utah. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what KUEN, educational and independent can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6339501. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962, 1973, 1984 and 1985.
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