KTVX
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| KTVX | |
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| Salt Lake City, Utah | |
| Branding | ABC 4 |
| Slogan | Taking Action. Getting Results. |
| Channels | Digital: 40 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | 4.1 KTVX 4.2 Untamed Sports TV |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner | Newport Television, LLC |
| First air date | April 19, 1948 |
| Call letters’ meaning | TeleVision eXellence (1975) or TVX Broadcast Group (not related) |
| Sister station(s) | KUCW |
| Former callsigns | KDYL-TV (1948-1953) KTVT (1953-1959) KCPX-TV (1959-1975) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 4 (1948-2009) |
| Former affiliations | NBC (1948-1960) |
| Transmitter Power | 475.7 kW |
| Height | 1256 m |
| Facility ID | 68889 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 40°39′33″N 112°12′7″W / 40.65917°N 112.20194°W (digital) |
| 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 owned by Newport Television, and controls CW affiliate KUCW, owned by High Plains Broadcasting, Inc., due to FCC ownership limits (see below). KTVX broadcasts from a transmitter on Nelson Peak, southwest of Salt Lake City.
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[edit] History
KTVX signed on the air as Utah's first TV station in November 1946 under the experimental callsign W6SIX. It began broadcasting regularly on April 19, 1948[1] as KDYL-TV, owned by Sid Fox and his Mountain Broadcasting Corporation along with KDYL radio (AM 1060 and FM 98.7, now KBEE). 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. It was the first independently-owned TV station to sign-on in America[1]. 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 during the mid-1950s it was owned by Time Life, Inc. It adopted its present-day call letters when United Television (then the broadcasting division of 20th Century Fox) acquired the station from Screen Gems.
Channel 4 swapped affiliations with KUTV in 1960 and became an ABC affiliate.
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 1975, when the station changed its call letters to KTVX, the title for the newscasts was NewsCenter 4. This was the first newscast title under the current call letters, which lasted until 1981.
In 1981, United Television merged with Chris-Craft Industries. After Chris-Craft's stations were sold to Fox (this briefly brought KTVX and KMOL back under common ownership with 20th Century Fox, while a third ex-United station, then-UPN affiliate KMSP-TV in the Twin Cities, eventually became a Fox O&O outright when Fox moved its network programming to that station from WFTC in 2002), KTVX and KMOL (now WOAI-TV) in San Antonio were traded to Clear Channel for WFTC. 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.
KTVX aired TheHive TV on digital subchannel 4.2, which featured locally produced programs and sports produced by residents in the Salt Lake City area. The schedule resembled a cable public access, though since the channel must conform to FCC content guidelines, outside producers' programs was approved by the station before it was aired. It shut down December 2008. In January 2009 TheHive TV was replaced by Untamed Sports TV, of which KTVX-DT2 is the flagship station.
On November 16, 2006, Clear Channel announced plans to sell all of its television stations, including KTVX,[2] 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.[3] Newport closed on the station group on March 14, 2008. In May 2008, Newport Television agreed to sell KTVX and five other stations to High Plains Broadcasting, Inc. because of an ownership conflict; however, Newport Television would have continued to operate KTVX through a joint sales agreement after the sale was finalized.[4] However, on August 22, 2008, KTVX was removed from the sale after Univision Communications, owner of KUTH and of which Providence Equity Partners holds a 19% stake, canceled its plans to purchase KUTF, thus alleviating the need to sell channel 4 (although sister station KUCW was eventually sold to High Plains Broadcasting but remains managed by Newport Television).[5] As of April 16, 2009, KUTF is in the process of being sold to the Daystar Television Network. As a result, KTVX remains owned by Newport Television.
On June 12, 2009, KTVX ended analog broadcasts and began to transmit exclusively digitally.[6]
[edit] Bush visit
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."[7]
[edit] Newscasts
Robert Maxwell and Karen Carlson anchor the news with Chief Meteorologist Roland Steadham providing "Weather First" at 5:00pm, 6:00pm and 10:00pm.
ABC4 also broadcasts a local lifestyle show called Good Things Utah weekdays at 10am, with hosts Nicea DeGering, Reagan Leadbetter, Angie Larsen and Marti Skold.
For the past several years, KTVX has been in a distant fourth place with its local newscasts, ranking behind NBC affiliate KSL-TV, former CBS O&O KUTV and even former Fox O&O KSTU.
[edit] Current Anchors/Reporters
[edit] Anchors
- Karen Carlson - Weekdays 5pm, 6pm and 10pm
- Robert Maxwell - Weekdays 5pm, 6pm and 10pm
- Don Hudson - Weekdays Good Morning Utah 5-7am
- Angie Larson - Weekdays Good Morning Utah 5-7am
- Jon Du Pre - Weekend Anchor
[edit] Reporters
- Marcos Ortiz
- Kerry Kinsey
- Annie Cutler
- Brian Carlson
- Chris Vanocur
- Robert Walz
- Barb Smith
- Christiana Brady
- Ross Becker
- Brent Hunsaker
[edit] 4 WARN Weather First Team
- Roland Steadham - Chief Meteorologist - Weekdays
- Todd Gross, Meteorologist - Weekends
- Marti Skold, Weather Host - Good Morning Utah, Good Things Utah
[edit] ABC 4 Sports Zone and Red Zone
- Wesley Ruff - Sports Director
- Dana Greene - Sports Anchor
- Kent Rupe - Sports Anchor
[edit] Past Personalities
- Terry Wood, Anchor
- Amy Troy, Anchor, currently with KGW Portland
- Randall Carlisle, Anchor
- Susan Wood, Anchor/Reporter
- Chris Jones, Reporter
- Kevin Stanfield, AKA Mike McKay Anchor/Traffic Reporter, currently at KREX
- Ruth Todd, Anchor
- Erika Edberg, Anchor
- Clayton Brough, Climatologist
- Dan Pope, Chief Meteorologist, currently with KSL Salt Lake City
- Reed Cowan, Anchor/Reporter, currently at WSVN
- Kimberly Perkins, Anchor
- Phil Riesen, Anchor (currently a Democratic member of the Utah State House of Representatives)
- Brek Bolton, Meteorologist, currently at KUTV
- Bob Koop, Anchor, later with WIVB (deceased)
- Othello Richards, Reporter. Currently a reporter for KREM-TV in Spokane, WA.
- McKay Allen, Reporter. Currently a reporter for KXLY-TV. in Spokane, WA.
- Linda O’Bryon, Reporter and founding executive editor of PBS' Nightly Business Report. Currenty Chief Content Officer at KQED-TV San Francisco
- Mark Zinni, Reporter/Anchor. Currently at WJW in Cleveland
[edit] Translators
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.
[edit] News/Station presentation
[edit] Newscast titles
- Your Esso Reporter (1948-1953)
- Chevrolet News and Weather (1953-1959)
- The Pepsi-Cola News Report (1959-1961)
- The Big News (1961-1965, 6 P.M. newscast)
- Nightly News (1961-1965, 10 P.M. newscast)
- City Camera News (1965-1975, 6 P.M. newscast)
- 24 Hours (1965-1975, 10 P.M. newscast)
- NewsCenter 4 (1975-1981)
- Channel 4 News (1981-1986)
- Live at Five (1981-1986; 5 P.M. newscast)
- KTVX News (1986-1992)
- News 4 Utah (1992-2002)
- ABC 4 News (2002-present)
[edit] Station slogans
- KCPX Television, Channel 4 in Color (1965-1971)
- KCPX Television Channel 4, Utah's Own Station (1971-1975)
- NewsCenter 4: Utah's Choice for News (1975-1980)
- We're 4 You (1980-1982)
- Come on Along with Channel 4 (1982-1983; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- That's What Friends Are 4 (1982-1985)
- You'll Love It on Channel 4 (1985-1986; local verison of ABC ad campaign)
- KTVX News: Number One in Utah (1986-1992)
- We're 4 Utah (1992-2001)
- It's About All of Us (2001-2002)
- ABC 4: Close To Home (2002-2007)
- This is Where We Live (2007-2008)
- Taking Action. Getting Results. (2008-present)
[edit] Trivia
- In 1968, KTVX was still known as KCPX-TV. At this time, the station was using a popular "Open 4" logo that was later implemented by WAPA-TV in San Juan, Puerto Rico. That station used several variations of the logo from the 1970s until implementing a new logo in 1990. [1] [2]
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- KTVX ABC4 Homepage
- TheHive TV Homepage
- ClearChannel
- ABC Homepage
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KTVX
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KTVX-TV
[edit] References
- ^ a b KTVX history
- ^ "Clear Channel agrees to sale". The Cincinnati Enquirer (Gannett Company). 2006-11-16. http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061116/BIZ01/311160018/-1/CINCI. Retrieved 2006-11-17.
- ^ Clear Channel Communications (2007-04-20). "Clear Channel Agrees to Sell Television Station Group to Providence Equity Partners". Press release. http://www.clearchannel.com/Corporate/PressRelease.aspx?PressReleaseID=1943. Retrieved 2007-04-20.
- ^ Fresno's KGPE has new owner
- ^ "APPLICATION FOR CONSENT TO ASSIGNMENT OF BROADCAST STATION CONSTRUCTION PERMIT OR LICENSE". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. 2008-09-04. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1264514&Service=TV&Form_id=314&Facility_id=34459. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
- ^ http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11665656
- ^ Associated Press. "TV station refuses to air anti-war ad days before Bush visit," USA Today, August 21, 2005.
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