KBYU-TV
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| Provo/Salt Lake City, Utah | |
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| Branding | Eleven |
| Slogan | At Home With Eleven |
| Channels | Digital: 44 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Brigham Young University |
| First air date | November 15, 1965 |
| Call letters' meaning | Brigham Young University |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 11 (VHF, 1965-2009) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1965-1970) |
| Transmitter power | 346 kW |
| Height | 1257 m |
| Facility ID | 6823 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°39′33″N 112°12′7″W / 40.65917°N 112.20194°W |
| Website | www.kbyutv.org |
KBYU-TV is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member public television station serving the U.S. state of Utah. The station broadcasts locally in digital-only on UHF channel 44, which redirects to its former analog channel 11 via PSIP. It is rebroadcast statewide through a network of translators. Known on-air as "Eleven," it is owned by Brigham Young University, which is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Studios are located on BYU's campus in Provo, where the station is licensed. The LDS Church also owns KSL-TV, through Bonneville International). It is one of at least four PBS member stations owned and operated by a religious-based organization, the others being WLAE-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana, WXEL-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida and KMBH in the Rio Grande Valley.
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[edit] Programming
KBYU-TV was first licensed by the FCC on November 7, 1965. It went on the air just over a week later, on November 15. This made Salt Lake City one of the smallest markets with two noncommercial educational stations.
Programming on KBYU-TV is general PBS fare, with emphasis on children's, informational and entertainment programming. The station also airs special programs related to the LDS church, and offers a nightly block of classic TV programs, such as I Love Lucy, Perry Mason, My Three Sons, The Andy Griffith Show and Little House on the Prairie.
KBYU-TV has produced some notable programs for national distribution. Ancestors , produced in conjunction with the Family History Library and PBS, was a highly successful series of videos on family genealogy. It was so well received that KBYU-TV produced a second series of videos, also entitled Ancestors, which proved to be even more successful [1]. Small Fortunes: Microcredit and the Future of Poverty, produced in 2005, explored the business of Microcredit through eleven providers of the service. Another show produced by KBYU was Hooked on Aerobics, which was on air for many years.
In 2010, KBYU rebranded as "Eleven."
[edit] Digital television
In 1997, KBYU-TV was allotted UHF channel 39 for its digital facilities, but in 1999, it changed their allotment to UHF channel 44 as part of a digital channel realignment coordinated by DTV Utah, a consortium of eight Salt Lake City market TV Stations, of which KBYU is a member. KBYU-DT began broadcasting on November 15, 2000 and was licensed January 23, 2003.
On June 12, 2009, KUED, KUEN and KBYU-TV ended analogue broadcasts and began to transmit exclusively digitally.[1]
Like nearly all of the stations in Utah, KBYU-TV will remain on its current pre-transition channel number, which is 44.[2][3] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display KBYU's virtual channel as 11.
In the Salt Lake City metro market, KBYU-TV broadcasts BYU Television on digital subchannel 11.2 and BYU Television International on digital sub-channel 11.3. KBYU-TV also utilizes the alternate audio tracks with the digital broadcasts. On 11.1, alternate audio track 3 plays KBYU-FM. 11.2 plays BYU Radio (commonly found streamed over the Internet) on alternate audio track 3. Holding to the international theme on 11.3, alternate audio track 2 will simulcast the current program in Spanish and alternate audio track 3 will simulcast the current program in Portuguese.
[edit] Translators
KBYU-TV uses an extensive network of over 60 translator stations to extend its signal throughout Utah, plus parts of Arizona and Idaho:
[edit] Other BYU Broadcasting divisions
BYU Television (BYU TV) is broadcast nationwide via Dish Network and DirecTV, via cable television systems, and worldwide at BYUTV.org. Often confused with KBYU-TV, BYU TV is a separate programming entity. Related to BYU TV is its sister station BYU Television International, which is yet another a separate programming entity.
BYU Broadcasting also operates radio station "Classical 89", KBYU-FM 89.1, plus internet-exclusive radio services.
[edit] 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 Feb 4, 2009
- ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
- ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101233476&formid=387&fac_num=10758
[edit] External links
- KBYU-TV Official site
- Small Fortunes website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KBYU
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KBYU-TV
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