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KTVX
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| Salt Lake City, Utah | |
| Branding | ABC4 |
| Slogan | Close To Home |
| Channels | Analog: 4 (VHF) Digital: 40 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | ABC (since 1960) TheHive TV (Community-produced programs) on DT2 |
| Owner | Clear Channel Communications (sale to Providence Equity Partners' Newport Television pending) |
| Founded | April 15, 1948 |
| Call letters meaning | K TeleVision eXellence (1975) |
| Former callsigns | KDYL-TV (1948-53) KTVT (1953-59) KCPX-TV (1959-75) |
| Former affiliations | NBC (1948-60) |
| Transmitter Power | 32.4 kW (analog) 475.7 kW (digital) |
| Height | 1180 m (analog) 1256.1 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 68889 |
| Website | www.abc4.com |
KTVX ("ABC4") is the ABC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah. It also operates a large network of over 100 translator stations that covers the entire state and parts of Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming. The station is co-owned with CW affiliate KUCW by Newport Television.
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KTVX signed on the air as Utah's first TV station in 1947 under the experimental callsign W6SIX. It received its full license on April 15, 1948, and signified its relationship with its corporate sibling KDYL-AM later that year with the callsign KDYL-TV. The floor in the first studio was sloped and cameras would easily roll. The original transmitter sat on the top of the Walker Bank Building. The station was originally an NBC affiliate owing to KDYL-AM's long relationship with NBC Radio; KDYL-AM had been one of NBC's original 26 affiliates when the network premiered in 1926.
KTVX is the oldest TV station in the Mountain Time Zone and the third oldest west of the Mississippi. The station changed its call letters to KTVT in 1953, KCPX-TV in 1959, and finally KTVX in 1975. The KTVT call letters are now used by the CBS station in Dallas, Texas. The change of call letters to KCPX came with the sale to Screen Gems Broadcasting, a division of Screen Gems, then the television division of Columbia Pictures. For a brief period it was owned by Time Life, Inc. It adopted its present-day call letters when United Television (then a subsidiary of the 20th Century Fox Corporation) acquired the station.
Channel 4 swapped affiliations with KUTV in 1960 and became an ABC affiliate. It added KCPX-FM in 1961. KCPX had an early studio color camera that was mostly unusable, so KCPX killed the color on network feeds; this and poor management caused studio unrest. Several of the crew ended up at NBC's West Coast facility in Burbank, California, where they worked in color. Channel 4 did not convert to color broadcasting until 1969, while KSL-TV and KUTV had broadcast in color since the 1950s. Not surprisingly, it took a long time for channel 4's ratings to recover.
Some of the memorable shows from the 1960s include Fireman Frank and Nightmare Theater, both hosted by Ron Ross.
The KTVX call letters were formerly used by KTUL-TV in Tulsa, Oklahoma, also an ABC affiliate.
In 1981, United Television merged with Chris-Craft Industries. After Chris-Craft's stations were sold to FOX, KTVX and KMOL (now WOAI-TV) in San Antonio were traded to Clear Channel for WFTC in the Twin Cities. Since Fox already owned KSTU, it was forced to sell KTVX due to current FCC regulations prohibiting one company from owning two of the four highest-ranked stations in a single market. KTVX was traded because it had a long-term ABC affiliation. FOX also wanted to offer an attractive package to Clear Channel for WFTC.
KTVX was the only Chris-Craft owned station to have never been affiliated with UPN during the time Chris-Craft owned a partial stake in the network.
The station airs TheHive TV on its DT2 digital subchannel, which features locally produced programs and sports produced by residents in the Salt Lake City area, and the schedule resembles cable public access, though since the channel must conform to FCC content guidelines, outside producers' programs must be approved by the station before they can air.
On November 16, 2006, Clear Channel announced plans to sell all of its television stations, including KTVX,[1] after being bought by private equity firms. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Providence Equity Partners's Newport Television.[2]
In August 2005, President George W. Bush visited Salt Lake City to speak to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Cindy Sheehan appeared in a paid political message protesting the Iraq War, and the ad was submitted to the top four stations in the market (KSL-TV, KSTU, KTVX and KUTV). KTVX management declined the offer, saying that the content "could very well be offensive to our community in Utah, which has contributed more than its fair share of fighting soldiers and suffered significant loss of life in this Iraq war."[3]
Randall Carlisle and Barbara Smith anchor the news at 5:00pm and 5:30pm. Ross Becker anchors the news at 10:00pm, with co-anchor Barbara Smith.
The morning news program, A.M. Express, was recently re-imaged as Good Morning Utah with a new weather person and an on-set traffic person.
ABC4 also broadcasts a live show at 10 a.m. titled Good Things Utah with hosts Nicea DeGering, Reagan Leadbetter, Angie Larsen and Marti Skold.
The weekend newscasts are anchored by Terry Wood and Susan Wood.
- Ross Becker - 10pm (Sunday - Friday) (also reporter)
- Randall Carlisle - 5pm and 5:30pm
- Barbara Smith - 5pm and 5:30pm (also filling-in at 10pm) (health reporter)
- Erika Edberg - 5:30am, 6am and 6:30am (also reporter)
- Mike McKay - Good Morning Utah (5:30am, 6am and 6:30am) (Also Traffic)
- Terry Wood - Weekends (also reporter)
- Susan Wood - Weekends (also reporter)
- Marti Skold, Chief Weathercaster - 5pm, 5:30pm & 10pm
- Todd Gross, Meteorologist - Good Morning Utah (5:30am, 6am and 6:30am)
- Clayton Brough, Climatologist - Weekend Editions of ABC4 News (Forecasting Weather on KTVX for 26 Years)
- Wesley Ruff - Sports Director (5:30pm and 10pm)
- Dana Greene - Tuesdays and Wednesdays (5:30pm and 10pm)
- Kent Rupe - Saturday Afternoons, Fill-In anchor, Hot Ticket Sports Saturday & Sunday
KTVX extends its coverage throughout the entire state of Utah, plus parts of Arizona, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming, using a network of more than 100 community-owned translator television stations listed below.
- ^ "Clear Channel agrees to sale", The Cincinnati Enquirer, Gannett Company, 2006-11-16. Retrieved on 2006-11-17.
- ^ Clear Channel Communications (2007-04-20). Clear Channel Agrees to Sell Television Station Group to Providence Equity Partners. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.
- ^ Associated Press. "TV station refuses to air anti-war ad days before Bush visit," USA Today, August 21, 2005.
- KTVX ABC4 Homepage
- TheHive TV Homepage
- ClearChannel
- ABC Homepage
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KTVX
- Aerial photo of KTVX transmitter from Google Local
- Aerial photo of KTVX-DT transmitter from Google Local
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KUTV 2 (CBS) - KCBU 3 (RTN) - KTVX 4 (ABC, TheHiveTV on DT2) - KSL 5 (NBC, WX+ on DT2) - KUED 7 (PBS) - KUEN 9 (Ind) Outlying Areas
KCVB-CA 3 (ION) - KVNV 3 (NBC) - KCSG 4 (A1) - KUSG 12 (CBS) - KGWR 13 (CBS) - KUEW 18/KUES 19 (PBS) - K22BK 22 (PBS) Reno Repeaters within the Nevada part of the Salt Lake City market
KENV 10 (NBC) - K15EE 15 / K23FC 23 (PBS) - K17DT 17 / K57GR 57 (Fox) - K19FZ 19 / K32GK 32 (ABC) - K25FR 25 / K36HA 36 (CBS) - K47HP 47 / K55IK 55 (MNTV) |
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