KUTF

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KUTF
City Logan, Utah
Channels
Programming
Affiliations Daystar
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
January 1, 2001(23 years ago) (2001-01-01)
Former call signs
KUTH (2001–2004)
KCBU (2004–2005)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
12 (VHF, 2001–2009)
Univision (2001–2004)
Independent (2004–2005)
TeleFutura (2005–2009)
Dark (2009−2010)
Call sign meaning
Utah Telefutura
-or-
Univision Telefutura (former affiliations)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 69694
Class DT
ERP 22.3 kW
HAAT 690 m (2,264 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 41°47′2.7″N112°13′57.8″W / 41.784083°N 112.232722°W / 41.784083; -112.232722
Links
Public license information
Website www.daystar.com

KUTF (channel 12) is a religious television station licensed to Logan, Utah, United States, serving the Salt Lake City area as an owned-and-operated station of the Daystar Television Network. The station's transmitter is located on Cal Mountain near Tremonton, Utah.

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History

The channel 12 frequency in Logan previously belonged to KUSU-TV, a non-commercial educational station owned and operated by Utah State University which broadcast from 1964 to 1970. The KUTF calls were used previously from 1989 until 1992 for what is now KRCW-TV in Salem, Oregon, which serves the Portland market.

KUTF was founded June 9, 2000, by Equity Media Holdings and launched on January 1, 2001, as a Univision affiliate, then shifted to Univision's secondary network, TeleFutura (the current-day UniMás) in 2005. At one point, it was simulcast in Salt Lake City via low-power station K45GX in Salt Lake City. Equity co-managed the station with Provo-licensed KCBU (now KUTH-DT, channel 32), which was owned by Univision itself but operated by Equity.

KUTF was part of a lot of stations sold at auction to Daystar on April 16, 2009, along with sister station KCBU in Price, which originally operated as a KUTF simulcast but by 2005, took on several English-language networks operated by Equity. [2] On the digital transition date of June 12, the station's analog transmitter went dark. Univision then purchased KUTH outright, and transitioned TeleFutura in the market to that station's second subchannel.

Daystar completed KUTF's digital facilities before the June 12, 2010, deadline to resume operations, and went on the air with Daystar programming on April 21. Daystar decided to pursue pay-TV coverage across Utah with KUTF rather than bring KCBU back on the air, and that station's license was canceled on July 6 of the same year.

Technical information

Subchannel of KUTF [3]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
12.1 480i 4:3 Daystar

Analog-to-digital conversion

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, [4] the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, at the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KUTF turned off its analog signal on June 12, 2009, and resumed broadcasting on the same channel with a digital signal (called a "flash-cut"), though it stayed dark until April 21, 2010, when Daystar activated its digital channel.

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KUTF". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "Takers found for 60 Equity stations". Television Business Report. April 18, 2009. Archived from the original on April 24, 2009. Retrieved April 20, 2009.
  3. ↑ "Digital TV Market Listing for KUTF". www.rabbitears.info. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Final DTV Channel Plan from FCC97-115".
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