BYU TV

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BYU TV
Country United States
Broadcast area United States, worldwide
Affiliates KBYU-TV
Headquarters Provo, Utah, United States
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture format 1080i (HDTV)
(HD feed downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SDTVs)
Ownership
Owner Brigham Young University
History
LaunchedJanuary 1, 2000 (2000-01-01)
Links
Webcast www.byutv.org/livetv
Website www.byutv.org
Availability
Terrestrial
Provo/Salt Lake City area KBYU-TV 11.1
Pago Pago, American Samoa K11UU-D 11.4
Phoenix, Arizona KGRY-LD 28.1
Streaming media
Service(s) Frndly TV, Vidgo

BYU TV (stylized as BYUtv) is a television channel and free family-friendly streaming service, founded in 2000, which is owned and operated as a part of Brigham Young University (BYU). [1] The channel, available on most smart TVs or through cable and satellite distributors in the United States, produces a number of original series and documentaries with emphases in comedy, history, lifestyle, music and drama. BYUtv also regularly broadcasts feature films, nature documentaries, acquired dramas and religious programs (consistent with the university's sponsoring organization, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). [2] [3] Additionally, BYUtv Sports is the primary broadcaster of BYU Cougars athletics, producing more than 125 live sporting events in 2012 alone. [4] The channel has won multiple regional Emmy Awards, [5] a national Children's and Family Emmy Award, [6] and several of its original series have been praised by national television critics. [7] [8] [9]

Contents

BYUtv broadcasts all of its original content, and most acquired content, worldwide online via its website. BYUtv is also carried through KBYU-TV, a television station in Provo, Utah, also owned by the university, ensuring HD coverage across Salt Lake City and most of Utah. The channel is one of several operated by the university's BYU Broadcasting division, including the world feed BYUtv Global and BYUradio. Multiple celebrity guests and artists have made special appearances on BYUtv, notably Imagine Dragons and Neon Trees on the series AUDIO-FILES ; Lea Salonga, Howard Jones, Duncan Sheik and Sixpence None the Richer on The Song That Changed My Life; and Shawn Bradley, The Piano Guys, and Mates of State on Studio C . Major athletes like Steve Young, Ty Detmer and Jimmer Fredette have also appeared on special BYUtv Sports broadcasts. [10] [11] [12] [13]

History

Old BYU TV logo (2001-2019) BYUtv logo.svg
Old BYU TV logo (2001-2019)

BYUtv was founded in 2000, and has grown from a "relatively unknown cable channel on a single satellite" to a national provider on Dish Network, DirecTV, and over 600 cable systems in the US. [1]

During 2010 and 2011, newly appointed BYUtv director of content, Scott Swofford, commissioned focus groups targeting TV viewers who were at least nominally religious, to see what they liked, disliked and wanted on TV. Swofford summarized the results as, "We want to be entertained. Then we'll stick around for the message." This led to the creation of the pilot for Granite Flats , which became BYUtv's first and flagship original scripted television drama series, and went on to significantly expand the channel's audience, eventually attracting about 500,000 viewers per episode, compared to the previous top-rated show, Love of Quilting, which typically drew under 10,000. [14]

Programming

BYUtv produces shows under several categories: BYU Sports, Campus, Documentary, Faith, Family, Lifestyle, People, and Performing Arts. [15] This includes original series, documentaries and religious service programs, along with family and faith-based films licensed from Disney Entertainment Distribution and Sony Pictures Television.

Original series

Acquired programming

Religious programming

Religious programming derives from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which owns and operates BYU. Some religious programming airs on Sundays or in the early morning hours on BYUtv:

BYU Sports

The channel was the primary home for most telecasts of BYU Cougars athletics, including select home and away games for football, men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, gymnastics, men's and women's volleyball and women's soccer. Beginning in 2009, the network also began covering BYU-Hawaii Seasiders sports, including all conference home games in women's volleyball and men's basketball, as well as select conference home games in women's basketball and additional non-conference home games for men's basketball.

In 2011, BYUtv added the WCC Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments to their sports broadcasts. BYUtv produced the first round and quarterfinals of the men's and women's basketball tournaments, which were also broadcast on ESPN3.com. [19]

In 2011, ESPN reached a deal to broadcast home games of the newly independent BYU Cougars football team. At least one home game per season would air live on BYUtv, along with reruns on BYUtv of home games broadcast on ESPN's networks. [20] Its coverage also included pre-game and post-game shows, with the pre-game show Countdown to Kickoff hosted by BYU Cougars alumni Alema Harrington, Dave McCann and a rotating panel of analysts: Gary Sheide, Blaine Fowler, David Nixon, Brian Logan, and Jan Jorgensen. [21] [22] In 2014, Spencer Linton replaced Harrington on the panel.

Additionally, the network launched a separate website for its sports coverage, Byutvsports.com, in partnership with ESPN and IMG College. The site features news, video and free video on demand streaming of recent games. [23] The site folded back into byutv.org in fall 2015.

The channel also produces its own sports shows including BYU Sports Nation (weekdays, 1 hr), BYU Sports Nation Game Day (formerly Countdown to Kickoff, preceding each football game), Postgame Show (following each football game), After Further Review (weekly), Inside BYU Football (weekly) and previously carried Bronco Mendenhall's post-game press conferences for football games.

With BYU joining the Big 12 in the 2023–24 season, BYU TV will no longer carry Cougars sports telecasts, due to a contract with ESPN+ to hold the third-tier media rights of all teams in the conference. The telecasts will continue to be produced by BYU staff, and BYU TV will continue to carry studio programming. [24]

Availability

BYUtv is available on a variety of streaming platforms and devices, including:

Additionally, BYUtv is available through many cable companies, making it accessible to a wide audience across various platforms.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2022 BYU Cougars women's soccer team</span> American college soccer season

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2023–24 BYU Cougars women's basketball team</span> Intercollegiate basketball season

The 2023–24 BYU Cougars women's basketball team represented Brigham Young University during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Cougars, were led by second-year head coach Amber Whiting and played their home games at the Marriott Center as members of the Big 12 Conference.

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