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'''KMYU''', channel 12 (digital 9), is a full-service [[television station]] in [[St. George, Utah]] that serves as the [[MyNetworkTV]] and [[ThisTV]] affiliate for the state of Utah. The station is owned by [[Four Points Media Group]], which also owns [[Salt Lake City]] [[CBS]] affiliate [[KUTV]]. However, since March 2009, the Four Points stations are all operated by [[Nexstar Broadcasting Group]] through a [[Local marketing agreement|local service agreement]] (LSA). Since KMYU's transmitter only covers the southern portion of the state, KUTV offers KMYU's programming on a [[digital subchannel]].<ref name="kusg-thistv">{{cite web|url=http://www.stgeorge.biz/biz/7/KUSG-TV.html|title=Business Services - Advertising &amp; Marketing - KUSG in St. George, UT - StGeorge.biz|work=StGeorge.biz|accessdate=July 1, 2009}}</ref> The station also broadcasts [[Real Salt Lake]] games<ref name="kusg-thistv"/> and [[Western Athletic Conference]] sports.<ref name="kusgwacmntv">{{cite press release|title=Six Additional Affiliates Named to WAC Sports Network|publisher=[[Western Athletic Conference]]|date=September 14, 2010|url=http://www.wacsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10100&ATCLID=204993956|accessdate=September 28, 2010}}</ref>
'''KMYU''', channel 12 (digital 9), is a full-service [[television station]] in [[St. George, Utah]] that serves as the [[MyNetworkTV]] and [[ThisTV]] affiliate for the state of Utah. The station is owned by [[Four Points Media Group]], which also owns [[Salt Lake City]] [[CBS]] affiliate [[KUTV]]. However, since March 2009, the Four Points stations are all operated by [[Nexstar Broadcasting Group]] through a [[Local marketing agreement|local service agreement]] (LSA). Since KMYU's transmitter only covers the southern portion of the state, KUTV offers KMYU's programming on a [[digital subchannel]].<ref name="kusg-thistv">{{cite web|url=http://www.stgeorge.biz/biz/7/KUSG-TV.html|title=Business Services - Advertising &amp; Marketing - KUSG in St. George, UT - StGeorge.biz|work=StGeorge.biz|accessdate=July 1, 2009}}</ref> The station also broadcasts [[Real Salt Lake]] games<ref name="kusg-thistv"/> and [[Southern Utah University]] sports.<ref name="kusgwacmntv">{{cite press release|title=SUU Thunderbirds Open Home Football Slate Against #12 Sacramento State|publisher=Box Score News|date=September 6, 2011|url=http://boxscorenews.com/suu-thunderbirds-open-home-football-slate-against-sacramento-state-p26095-68.htm|accessdate=September 6, 2011}}</ref>


==History==
==History==

Revision as of 19:20, 7 September 2011

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KMYU, channel 12 (digital 9), is a full-service television station in St. George, Utah that serves as the MyNetworkTV and ThisTV affiliate for the state of Utah. The station is owned by Four Points Media Group, which also owns Salt Lake City CBS affiliate KUTV. However, since March 2009, the Four Points stations are all operated by Nexstar Broadcasting Group through a local service agreement (LSA). Since KMYU's transmitter only covers the southern portion of the state, KUTV offers KMYU's programming on a digital subchannel.[1] The station also broadcasts Real Salt Lake games[1] and Southern Utah University sports.[2]

History

The original construction permit for channel 12 was granted on May 23, 1988[3], and the station was assigned the call letters KUSG on September 11, 1989[4], but a license was not granted until January 24, 2000[5]. When KUSG first signed on August 21, 1999, it was operated as a satellite station for KUTV, at that time a CBS owned-and-operated station. CBS sold the stations (along with five other smaller-market stations) to Four Points on January 10, 2008[6] (in a deal first announced on February 7, 2007[7]).

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KUSG logo as an RTN affiliate from 2008 to 2009

On March 17, 2008, KUSG split from KUTV and became a separate station, operating as a Retro Television Network affiliate for St. George; the station has estimated this has left a small number of viewers without KUTV programming.[8]

Initially, KUSG's RTN programming was relayed on KUBX-LP channel 58 and KCBU channel 3, both owned by original RTN owner Equity Media Holdings, which brought the station's programming into Salt Lake City. However, on January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity and Luken Communications, L.L.C. (who had acquired RTN in June 2008) interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates.[9] As a result, Luken moved RTN operations to its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and dropped all Equity-owned affiliates, including KUBX and KCBU, immediately.[10]. KUBX and KCBU were later sold to the Daystar Television Network; KUBX is currently silent while KCBU never completed its digital transition and went off the air for good. KUSG itself was not affected (aside from the aforementioned interruption in network programming), as it is not an Equity station, but its satellite and Salt Lake City-area Comcast coverage was lost, as they received the station's programming via KUBX/KCBU.[11]

KUSG logo from 2009 until 2010. KUSG still airs programming from This TV.

As of June 2009, KUSG had dropped RTN (which rebranded to RTV that month) for This TV[1]; RTV has since moved to KCSG. The station again changed affiliations on September 20, 2010, joining MyNetworkTV.[2] KUSG retained This TV programming as a secondary affiliation. This switch briefly made it one of two MyNetworkTV affiliates serving the geographically large Utah media market, along with KCSG. The call letters were changed to KMYU on November 16, 2010.[4]

In September 2011, the station will air NBC's new period drama The Playboy Club in lieu of KSL-TV, which refused to air it due to management concerns about content and the program's promotion of Playboy magazine. The program will air at NBC's original Monday night at 9pm MT timeslot for the series on KMYU, displacing one episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent from MyNetworkTV to elsewhere in the schedule[12].

Newscasts

Currently, KUTV produces a 7 p.m. newscast, My News at 7, for the station, delaying MyNetworkTV programming by one hour; KMYU also simulcasts KUTV's 10 p.m. newscast. Periodic southern Utah-oriented news updates are also aired on the station.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Business Services - Advertising & Marketing - KUSG in St. George, UT - StGeorge.biz". StGeorge.biz. Retrieved July 1, 2009.
  2. ^ a b "SUU Thunderbirds Open Home Football Slate Against #12 Sacramento State" (Press release). Box Score News. September 6, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
  3. ^ "Application Search Details". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved April 2, 2008.
  4. ^ a b "Call Sign History". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved April 2, 2008.
  5. ^ "Application Search Details". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved April 2, 2008.
  6. ^ "CBS CORPORATION COMPLETES SALE OF LOCAL TV STATIONS TO CERBERUS" (Press release). CBS Corporation. January 10, 2008. Retrieved April 2, 2008.
  7. ^ "CBS CORPORATION TO SELL LOCAL TV STATIONS IN FOUR MARKETS TO CERBERUS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P." (Press release). CBS Corporation. February 7, 2007. Retrieved April 2, 2008.
  8. ^ Hudson, Bob (March 12, 2008). "So. Utah gets another TV station". The Spectrum. St. George, Utah. Retrieved April 2, 2008. [dead link]
  9. ^ What’s Wrong with MyTV?
  10. ^ TV Newsday: "Financial Dispute Disrupts RTN Diginet", 1/5/2009.
  11. ^ "Interruption in Utah's RTN Program Schedule". Utah's RTN. Retrieved January 10, 2009.[dead link]
  12. ^ Schneider, Michael (28 June 2011). "The Playboy Club Lands New Home in Salt Lake City". TV Guide.com. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
  13. ^ Hudson, Bob (March 27, 2008). "Koelbel speaks of partnership". The Spectrum. St. George, Utah. Retrieved April 2, 2008. [dead link]

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