KSL-TV

KSL-TV is an NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah that broadcasts locally in digital on UHF channel 38, and brands itself as "Channel 5." (Although KSL permanently ceased analog broadcasts on VHF channel 5 on June 12, 2009, the station is still available on channel 5 for most viewers via virtual channel mapping.) A large translator network extends coverage throughout the state and into portions of Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming. KSL-TV is owned by Bonneville International Corporation, which is in turn owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A sister station to KSL Newsradio (AM 1160 and FM 102.7), KSL-TV is also related to KBYU-FM and KBYU-TV in Provo through Brigham Young University (BYU), also owned by the LDS Church. KSL-TV broadcasts from a tower located on Farnsworth Peak west of Salt Lake City.

History
KSL-TV came on the air June 1, 1949, operating from studios in the Union Pacific Building on Main Street. It was owned by the Deseret News along with KSL radio (AM 1160 and FM 100.3, now KSFI). It was a CBS affiliate owing to its radio sister's long affiliation with CBS radio. Later in 1949, KSL moved to Broadcast House on Social Hall Avenue.

In 1952, a 370-foot transmission tower was constructed on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains to improve coverage all along the Wasatch Front and into Tooele County. It also began building a massive translator network stretching across five states, and now claims the largest coverage of any station in the United States.

It shared ABC programming with KDYL-TV (now KTVX) until KUTV signed on in 1954 as an ABC affiliate. It also broadcast DuMont programming. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.[1]

KSL-AM-FM-TV was a division of the Deseret News until 1964, when Bonneville International was formed as the parent company for the LDS' broadcasting holdings. Soon afterward, channel 5 broadcast in color for the first time.

In 1995, NBC sold KUTV (which swapped affiliations with what is now KTVX in 1960) to a partnership of CBS and Group W as part of a swap involving stations in Denver, Miami and Philadelphia. Originally, NBC sought to reaffiliate with KTVX; but after KTVX renewed its ABC affiliation, NBC then secured an affiliation agreement with KSL-TV.

KSL-TV experienced a scare in 1999 when a shooter entered the Triad Center, allegedly looking for a KSL-TV reporter. An employee of another company in the building was shot during the incident, resulting in her later death. De-Kieu Duy, a 24-year-old female, was arrested in connection with the incident. She has been declared incompetent to stand trial due to mental illness, and is currently awaiting trial while committed at Utah State Hospital.

In 2002, Bruce Christensen was named the President of KSL-TV. Christensen is the former president of PBS, the former dean of the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications, as well as a former reporter for KSL-TV.

In July 2010, KSL-TV took over the local marketing agreement (LMA) for independent station KJZZ-TV upon the conclusion of the five-year LMA between that station and KUTV.

Digital television
On June 12, 2009, KSL ended analog broadcasts and began to transmit exclusively digitally.[2]

On January 1, 2009 KSL discontinued their version of NBC Weather Plus due to discontinuation of the service by NBC, and relaunched the 5.3 subchannel as a locally-compiled automated weather channel, Live 5 Weather Channel, which unlike Weather Plus airs in 480i widescreen.

Programming
KSL news van at the Utah State Capitol.KSL-TV airs most NBC programming, as well as locally produced news and sports programs.

KSL has decided to not air some NBC programs, such as the short-lived sitcom Coupling and the long-running Saturday Night Live are two examples. (It also aired the CBS drama Picket Fences at 11pm on Saturdays instead of 9pm on Fridays.[3] SNL is preempted for the local SportsBeat Saturday, a holdover from the station's CBS days. (KUCW currently airs Saturday Night Live in the Salt Lake City market instead.) KSL also airs semiannual LDS General Conference as it is held, preempting any programs in the affected time slots.

Though KSL has decided to not air certain programs, some controversial programs have aired on KSL, such as The Book of Daniel (which was not shown by a few other NBC affiliates, especially in Bible Belt states) and a paid political message criticizing the war in Iraq, which featured Cindy Sheehan. KSL-TV is one of the few remaining television stations in the United States that still signs off at night, doing so at 3:30 am Saturday nights.

Newscast titles

 * Your Esso Reporter (1949–1953)
 * KSL-TV News (1953–1961)
 * Night Report (1961–1964)
 * Channel 5 News Final (1964–1966)
 * Channel 5 News (1966–1970)
 * 24 Hours (1966–1970; 10 p.m. newscast)
 * Channel 5 Eyewitness News (1970–1999)
 * Eyewitness News (1999–2004)
 * KSL 5 Eyewitness News (2004–2008)
 * KSL 5 Eyewitness News HD (2008–2009)
 * KSL 5 News HD (2009–present)

Station slogans
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 * Mountain America's #1 News Team (1970s-early 1980s)
 * The News Specialists (1981–2004)
 * Great Moments on Channel 5 (1982–1983; localized version of CBS ad campaign)
 * Eyewitness News. Your News. (2004–2008)
 * Alton, Utah
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 * Green River, Utah
 * style="width: 75px;"|K05BK
 * Orangeville, Utah
 * K24FI
 * Antimony, Utah
 * K05DO
 * Green River, Utah
 * K13DB
 * Orderville, Utah
 * K05DU
 * Beaver, Utah, etc.
 * K13CV
 * Hanksville, Utah
 * K13LS
 * Overton, Nevada
 * K54CJ
 * Beaver, Utah, etc.
 * K24FE
 * Hanna, Utah, etc.
 * K11ND
 * Panguitch, Utah
 * K05BB
 * Beowawe, Nevada
 * K09XP
 * Hatch, Utah
 * K13NT
 * Park City, Utah, etc.
 * K27GD
 * Big Piney, Wyoming, etc.
 * K10HO
 * Heber & Midway, Utah
 * K27GC
 * Parowan, Utah
 * K36AI
 * Bigelow Bench Area, Wyoming
 * K36DD
 * Helper, Utah
 * K09BQ
 * Peoa & Oakley, Utah
 * K12JM
 * Blanding & Monticello, Utah
 * K42AD
 * Henefer, Utah, etc.
 * K12AY
 * Pine Valley, Utah, etc.
 * K08EN
 * Bloomington, Utah
 * K20GJ
 * Henrieville, Utah
 * K13XL
 * Preston, Idaho
 * K23GR
 * Boulder, Utah
 * K12JR
 * Hildale, Utah, etc.
 * K11QQ
 * Preston, Idaho
 * K33GF
 * Caineville, Utah
 * K13MQ
 * Huntsville, Utah, etc.
 * K52CS
 * Preston, Idaho
 * K40GZ
 * Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
 * K12JH
 * Kanab, Utah
 * K05AX
 * Price, Utah
 * K47GP
 * Carlin, Nevada
 * K13BB
 * Kanarraville, Utah
 * K12CD
 * Randolph & Woodruff, Utah
 * K36FS
 * Cedar Canyon, Utah
 * K10MF
 * Koosharem, Utah
 * K12CT
 * Randolph, Utah
 * K09BA
 * Cedar City, Utah
 * K13CP
 * Laketown, Utah
 * K12MI
 * Richfield, Utah, etc.
 * K07CQ
 * Cedar City, Utah
 * K47IS
 * Leamington, Utah
 * K46DK
 * Richfield, Utah, etc.
 * K32HU-D
 * Cedar City, Utah, etc.
 * K35HG
 * Loa, Utah, etc.
 * K03AU
 * Rockville, Utah
 * K05AR
 * Circleville, Utah
 * K13EK
 * Logan, Utah
 * K45GL
 * Roosevelt, Utah, etc.
 * K08CS
 * Coalville, Utah
 * K13DP
 * Logan, Utah
 * K47HW
 * Rural Juab County, Utah
 * K47BD-D
 * Cooper Canyon, Nevada, etc.
 * K06FQ
 * Long Valley Junction, Utah
 * K03CX
 * Rural Sevier County, Utah
 * K39GN
 * Cora, Wyoming, etc.
 * K05DK
 * Lund & Preston, Nevada
 * K12DE
 * Ruth, Nevada
 * K11ED
 * Delta, Utah, etc.
 * K39FR
 * Malad City, Idaho, etc.
 * K50DH
 * Samak, Utah
 * K13VT
 * Dingle, Idaho, etc.
 * K13QY
 * Manila, Utah, etc.
 * K05FJ
 * Santa Clara, Utah, etc.
 * K35FS
 * Duchesne, Utah, etc.
 * K12DL
 * Manti, Utah, etc.
 * K13FF
 * Scipio & Holden, Utah
 * K12DH
 * Duckwater, Nevada, etc.
 * K29GM
 * Manti, Utah, etc.
 * K26IH-D
 * Scofield, Utah
 * K12CE
 * East Price, Utah
 * K05GX
 * Marysvale, Utah
 * K05BH
 * Sigurd, Utah & Salina, Utah
 * K12CJ
 * Elko, Nevada
 * K32GK
 * Mayfield, Utah
 * K11JK
 * Spring Glen, Utah, etc.
 * K12AZ
 * Ely, Nevada
 * K30CN
 * McKinnon, Wyoming, etc.
 * K29CR
 * Steptoe & Ruby Valley, Nevada
 * K12KO
 * Emery, Utah
 * K41GV
 * Minersville, Utah
 * K05AT
 * Summit County, Utah
 * K49FY
 * Emery, Utah
 * K49GB
 * Minersville, Utah
 * K17HX-D
 * Teasdale & Torrey, Utah
 * K05BG
 * Enterprise, Utah
 * K07ED
 * Mink Creek, Idaho
 * K13HA
 * Ticaboo, Utah
 * K05JS
 * Escalante, Utah
 * K05DV
 * Modena, Utah
 * K29FA
 * Toquerville, Utah
 * K07CG
 * Eureka, Utah
 * K39CR
 * Montezuma Creek & Aneth, Utah
 * K05JN
 * Tropic, Utah, etc.
 * K05FY
 * Fillmore, Utah, etc.
 * K38GT
 * Montpelier, Idaho
 * K19DQ
 * Utahn, Utah
 * K11TL
 * Fish Lake Resort, Utah
 * K03DE
 * Morgan, Utah, etc.
 * K12GI
 * Vernal, Utah, etc.
 * K11DF
 * Fruitland, Utah
 * K08JD
 * Mount Pleasant, Utah
 * K12CC
 * Virgin, Utah
 * K08BO
 * Garfield, Utah, etc.
 * K20GE
 * Mountain View, Wyoming, etc.
 * K09DI
 * Wanship, Utah
 * K10KO
 * Garfield, Utah, etc.
 * K49AG
 * Murray Canyon, Nevada
 * K11EE
 * Wendover, Utah
 * K12EB
 * Garrison, Utah, etc.
 * K13OJ
 * Myton, Utah
 * K21FT
 * Woodland & Kamas, Utah
 * K42FA
 * Grace, Idaho, etc.
 * K13AY
 * Oljeto, Utah
 * K05LF
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 * Fish Lake Resort, Utah
 * K03DE
 * Morgan, Utah, etc.
 * K12GI
 * Vernal, Utah, etc.
 * K11DF
 * Fruitland, Utah
 * K08JD
 * Mount Pleasant, Utah
 * K12CC
 * Virgin, Utah
 * K08BO
 * Garfield, Utah, etc.
 * K20GE
 * Mountain View, Wyoming, etc.
 * K09DI
 * Wanship, Utah
 * K10KO
 * Garfield, Utah, etc.
 * K49AG
 * Murray Canyon, Nevada
 * K11EE
 * Wendover, Utah
 * K12EB
 * Garrison, Utah, etc.
 * K13OJ
 * Myton, Utah
 * K21FT
 * Woodland & Kamas, Utah
 * K42FA
 * Grace, Idaho, etc.
 * K13AY
 * Oljeto, Utah
 * K05LF
 * }
 * Grace, Idaho, etc.
 * K13AY
 * Oljeto, Utah
 * K05LF
 * }