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"KUES" redirects here. For the airport in Waukesha, Wisconsin assigned the ICAO code KUES, see Waukesha County Airport.
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| Salt Lake City, Utah | |
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| Branding | KUED 7 |
| Slogan | TV Worth Watching |
| Channels | Digital: 42 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | 7.1 KUED 7.2 KUED World 7.3 v-me |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | University of Utah |
| First air date | January 20, 1958 |
| Call letters' meaning | Utah EDucation |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 7 (VHF, 1958-2009) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1958-1970) |
| Transmitter power | 239 kW |
| Height | 1266 m |
| Facility ID | 69396 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°39′33″N 112°12′7″W / 40.65917°N 112.20194°W |
| Website | www.kued.org |
KUED is full-service Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television located in Salt Lake City, Utah, broadcasting locally in digital-only on UHF channel 42. It is one of two PBS member stations serving the Salt Lake City, Utah metropolitan area. KUED is owned by the University of Utah and is carried statewide on an extensive translator network.
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History
KUED first signed on the air on January 20, 1958 with an episode of The Friendly Giant. Their first broadcast was from improvised studios set up in the basement of the old student union building on the campus of the University of Utah. The station had humble beginnings with no props, primitive equipment, and a donated transmitter, thanks to Time-Life Inc., then the owners of KTVT channel 4 (now KTVX). A US$100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation made it possible from KUED to go on the air.
Early programming was purely educational, in some cases consisting of nothing more than a teacher standing in front of a chalk board and lecturing. About half of the programs aired were locally-produced, with the rest coming from National Educational Television (NET) and other sources. When the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) succeeded NET in 1970, the focus of programming changed from purely educational to both educational and entertaining.
On June 12, 2009, KUED, KUEN and KBYU-TV ended analogue broadcasts and began to transmit exclusively digitally.[1]
Rebroadcasters
KUED has two full power relay stations serving rural areas of Utah, both digital-only:
| Station | City of license | Channel | First air date | ERP | HAAT | Facility ID | Transmitter Coordinates |
| KUES | Richfield | 19 (UHF) | 2000 | 0.33 kW | 441 m | 82576 | 38°38′5.2″N 112°3′36.7″W / 38.634778°N 112.060194°W |
| KUEW | St. George | 18 (UHF) | 2002 | 1.62 kW | 66.5 m | 82585 | 37°3′50″N 113°34′23″W / 37.06389°N 113.57306°W |
Additionally, KUED can be seen on over 85 translator stations covering all of Utah, plus parts of Arizona, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming.
Related stations
External links
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KUED
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KUES
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KUEW
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KUED-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KUES-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KUEW-TV
References
- ^ [http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11628657 Congress delays digital TV switch until June; Utah sticks to original cutoff, Vince Horiuchi, Salt Lake Tribune February 4, 2009
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