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KSL-TV
Salt Lake City, Utah
Branding	KSL 5
Slogan	Eyewitness News. Your News.
Channels	5 (VHF) analog, 38 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	NBC (secondary 1949-1954 and primary since 1995) NBC Weather Plus (DT2)
Owner	Bonneville International
Founded	June 1, 1949
Call letters meaning	"K Salt Lake"
Former affiliations	CBS (1949-95)
Transmitter Power	33.4 kW (Analog) 546 kW (Digital)
Website	www.ksl.com

KSL-TV (Channel 5) is an NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah that broadcasts locally in analog on VHF channel 5 and in digital on UHF channel 38. 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-TV in Provo through Brigham Young University, also owned by the LDS. Live 5 WeatherPlus is offered through KSL's digital station.

Contents 1 History 2 Programming 3 Translators 4 External links

KSL-TV began transmission on June 1, 1949. It broadcast from the radio station's cramped studio facility on Social Hall Avenue in downtown Salt Lake City until 1984, when KSL Broadcast House was moved to 5 Triad Center. A CBS affiliate, it shared ABC programming with KDYL-TV (now KTVX) until KUTV signed on in 1954 as an ABC affiliate. It also broadcast DuMont programming. KSL-AM-FM-TV was a division of the Deseret News until 1964, when Bonneville International was formed as their parent company.

In 1995, NBC sold KUTV (which swapped affiliatons 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 BYU's College of Fine Arts and Communications, as well as a former reporter for KSL-TV.

KSL-TV airs most NBC programming, except a handful of programs station management deems offensive or otherwise unfit for broadcast, including Saturday Night Live (after the former NBC affiliate, KUTV, also passed on it, the local WB (now CW) affiliate, KUWB (now KUCW), decided to air it) and the short-lived sitcom Coupling, among others. KSL-TV also interrupts regular programming for the LDS General Conference. KSL-TV did air NBC's controversial drama, The Book of Daniel. This television program was pre-empted on a few other NBC affiliates due to pressure from religious groups before it was pulled from the network.

It also aired a paid political message criticizing the war in Iraq, which featured Cindy Sheehan.

KSL-TV extends its coverage throughout Utah, plus parts of Arizona, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming, using a network of more than 115 community-owned translator television stations listed below.

City	Callsign	City	Callsign	City	Callsign
Alton, Utah	K13OR	Grace, Idaho, etc.	K13AY	Orangeville, Utah	K24FI
Antimony, Utah	K05DO	Green River, Utah	K05BK	Orderville, Utah	K05DU
Beaver, Utah, etc.	K13CV	Green River, Utah	K13DB	Overton, Nevada	K54CJ
Beaver, Utah, etc.	K24FE	Hanksville, Utah	K13LS	Panguitch, Utah	K05BB
Beowawe, Nevada	K09XP	Hanna, Utah, etc.	K11ND	Park City, Utah, etc.	K27GD
Big Piney, Wyoming, etc.	K10HO	Hatch, Utah	K13NT	Parowan, Utah	K36AI
Bigelow Bench Area, Wyoming	K36DD	Heber & Midway, Utah	K27GC	Peoa & Oakley, Utah	K12JM
Blanding & Monticello, Utah	K42AD	Helper, Utah	K09BQ	Pine Valley, Utah, etc.	K08EN
Bloomington, Utah	K20GJ	Henefer, Utah, etc.	K12AY	Preston, Idaho	K23GR
Boulder, Utah	K12JR	Henrieville, Utah	K13XL	Preston, Idaho	K33GF
Caineville, Utah	K13MQ	Hildale, Utah, etc.	K11QQ	Preston, Idaho	K40GZ
Capitol Reef National Park, Utah	K12JH	Huntsville, Utah, etc.	K52CS	Price, Utah	K47GP
Carlin, Nevada	K13BB	Kanab, Utah	K05AX	Randolph & Woodruff, Utah	K36FS
Cedar Canyon, Utah	K10MF	Kanarraville, Utah	K12CD	Randolph, Utah	K09BA
Cedar City, Utah	K13CP	Koosharem, Utah	K12CT	Richfield, Utah, etc.	K07CQ
Cedar City, Utah	K47IS	Laketown, Utah	K12MI	Rockville, Utah	K05AR
Cedar City, Utah, etc.	K35HG	Leamington, Utah	K46DK	Roosevelt, Utah, etc.	K08CS
Circleville, Utah	K13EK	Loa, Utah, etc.	K03AU	Rural Juab County, Utah	K47BD-D
Coalville, Utah	K13DP	Logan, Utah	K45GL	Rural Sevier County, Utah	K39GN
Cooper Canyon, Nevada, etc.	K06FQ	Logan, Utah	K47HW	Ruth, Nevada	K11ED
Cora, Wyoming, etc.	K05DK	Long Valley Junction, Utah	K03CX	Samak, Utah	K13VT
Delta, Utah, etc.	K39FR	Lund & Preston, Nevada	K12DE	Santa Clara, Utah, etc.	K35FS
Dingle, Idaho, etc.	K13QY	Malad City, Idaho, etc.	K50DH	Scipio & Holden, Utah	K12DH
Duchesne, Utah, etc.	K12DL	Manila, Utah, etc.	K05FJ	Scofield, Utah	K12CE
Duckwater, Nevada, etc.	K29GM	Manti, Utah, etc.	K13FF	Sigurd, Utah & Salina, Utah	K12CJ
East Price, Utah	K05GX	Marysvale, Utah	K05BH	Spring Glen, Utah, etc.	K12AZ
Elko, Nevada	K32GK	Mayfield, Utah	K11JK	Steptoe & Ruby Valley, Nevada	K12KO
Ely, Nevada	K30CN	McKinnon, Wyoming, etc.	K29CR	Summit County, Utah	K49FY
Emery, Utah	K41GV	Minersville, Utah	K05AT	Teasdale & Torrey, Utah	K05BG
Emery, Utah	K49GB	Mink Creek, Idaho	K13HA	Ticaboo, Utah	K05JS
Enterprise, Utah	K07ED	Modena, Utah	K29FA	Toquerville, Utah	K07CG
Escalante, Utah	K05DV	Montezuma Creek & Aneth, Utah	K05JN	Tropic, Utah, etc.	K05FY
Eureka, Utah	K39CR	Montpelier, Idaho	K19DQ	Utahn, Utah	K11TL
Fillmore, Utah, etc.	K38GT	Morgan, Utah, etc.	K12GI	Vernal, Utah, etc.	K11DF
Fish Lake Resort, Utah	K03DE	Mount Pleasant, Utah	K12CC	Virgin, Utah	K08BO
Fruitland, Utah	K08JD	Mountain View, Wyoming, etc.	K09DI	Wanship, Utah	K10KO
Garfield, Utah, etc.	K20GE	Murray Canyon, Nevada	K11EE	Wendover, Utah	K12EB
Garfield, Utah, etc.	K49AG	Myton, Utah	K21FT	Woodland & Kamas, Utah	K42FA
Garrison, Utah, etc.	K13OJ	Oljeto, Utah	K05LF

• KSL-TV Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KSL-TV
• Aerial photo of KSL-TV transmitter from Google Local
• Aerial photo of KSL-TV-DT transmitter from Google Local

Broadcast television in the Salt Lake City/St. George/Provo/Ogden/Orem market  (Nielsen DMA #35)
KUTV 2 / KUSG 12 (CBS) - KCBU 3 (RTN) - KTVX 4 (ABC) - KCSG 4 (A1) - KSL 5 (NBC) - KUED 7 (PBS) - KUEN 9 (Ind) - KENV 10 (NBC) - KBYU 11 (PBS) - KUTF 12 (TFU) - KGWR 13 (CBS) - KSTU 13 (Fox) - KJZZ 14 (MNTV) - KUPX 16 (ION) - KTMW 20 (Ind) - K22BK 22 (PBS) - KPNZ 24 (Ind) - KUCL-LP 26 (3ABN) - KUCW 30 (The CW) - KUTH 32 (UNI) - KKRP-LP 46 (A1) - KSVN-CA 49 / K66FN 66 (AZA) - KEJT-LP 50 / KULX-LP 51 (TEL) - K68FY 68 (TFU)
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