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| City | St. George, Utah |
| Channels | |
| Branding | My Utah TV |
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| KUTV,KJZZ-TV | |
| History | |
| Founded | September 11, 1989 |
First air date | August 21, 1999 (26 years ago) (1999-08-21) |
Former call signs | KUSG (1999–2010) |
Former channel numbers | Analog: 12 (VHF, 1999–2009) |
Call sign meaning | MyNetworkTV Utah |
| Technical information[3] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 35822 |
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| Transmitter coordinates | 37°3′48″N113°34′26″W / 37.06333°N 113.57389°W /37.06333; -113.57389 |
| Repeaters | KUTV 2.2 (34.2 UHF) Salt Lake City and dependent translators |
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Public license information | |
| Website | kmyu |
KMYU (channel 12) is atelevision station licensed toSt. George, Utah, United States, serving as theMyNetworkTV affiliate for the state of Utah. It is owned bySinclair Broadcast Group alongsideSalt Lake City–basedCBS affiliateKUTV (channel 2) andindependent stationKJZZ-TV (channel 14). The stations share studios on South Main Street indowntown Salt Lake City; KMYU's transmitter is located atopWebb Hill,2+1⁄4 miles (3.6 km) south of downtown St. George. Previously, KMYU-TV maintained separate studios in the J. C. Snow Building on East St. George Boulevard in downtown St. George, while KUTV's facilities only housed KMYU'smaster control and some internal operations.
KUTV's plans to install a full-power station in southern Utah dated to the late 1980s, but while KUTV began selling local advertising on its existing southern Utah translators in 1993, what was then known as KUSG did not begin broadcasting until 1999. In 2008, the station was spun out as "Utah's RTN", an affiliate of theRetro Television Network, which switched to programming fromThis TV in 2009 and to MyNetworkTV in 2010. KMYU airs MyNetworkTV and syndicated shows as well as repeats of KUTV newscasts and several local sports programs.
Outside of southwestern Utah, KMYU is broadcast statewide on KUTV and its translator network (as subchannel 2.2). Likewise, KUTV is simulcast on one of KMYU's digital subchannels.
In 1986, Steven D. King, an Atlanta businessman, successfully petitioned theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) to add channel 12 to St. George as its first full-service television allocation.[4] In 1987, applications were received from Red Mountain Broadcasting Company, whose backers includedJim Rogers, owner ofLas Vegas stationKVBC;[5] and by KUTV, Inc.[6] The FCC designated these applications forcomparative hearing in February 1988,[7] but before the hearing could begin, a settlement agreement was reached and approved on May 23 in which KUTV was granted the permit.[8]
Even though the station would not begin broadcasting until 1999, KUTV began to lay the groundwork for the new station, which received the call sign KUSG.[9][10] Potential was also recognized for KUSG to possibly create a new media market for southern Utah that then could lead toKCCZ inCedar City becoming a network affiliate as well.[11] KUTV then drew the ire of theWashington County government, which owned KUTV's translators in the area, by proposing to begin local advertising insertion for the St. George area on the translators—in part to begin building an advertising base in southern Utah.[12] This was possible because of the way the signal was delivered from Salt Lake City. The first hop on the translator network going south was atLevan. The KUTV translator at Levan, which was owned by the station, was authorized as alow-power television station with program origination capabilities.[13] However, competing broadcasters, especially KCCZ, believed the deal gave KUTV an unfair advantage by allowing it to use translator infrastructure owned by local authorities.[12][14] To defuse this controversy, KUTV management worked out deals with service companies who took over maintenance of the translators in Washington andIron counties, and local ad insertion began in February 1992.[15] In the meantime, plans to build KUSG itself continued to be delayed.[16][a]
KUSG began broadcasting on August 21, 1999, and initially operated as asatellite station of KUTV. However, afterFour Points Media Group, a broadcast holding company operated by private equity firmCerberus Capital Management, acquired KUTV, KUSG, and other smaller-market CBS-owned stations in January 2008,[20] Four Points spun out KUSG with separate programming. It became known as "Utah's RTN", an affiliate of theRetro Television Network (RTN) featuring Southern Utah news updates from KUTV; KUTV remained available over the air from its other translator on channel 49 as well as on cable and satellite, and the station estimated this switch left a small number of viewers without KUTV programming.[21]
Equity Media Holdings, which owned RTN, soon fell into major financial difficulties. Initially, KUSG's RTN programming was relayed on Equity-owned KUBX-LP (channel 58) in Salt Lake City andKCBU (channel 3) inPrice, which respectively brought the station's programming into Salt Lake City and earned itmust-carry status on cable and satellite systems. However, on January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity andLuken Communications (which had acquired RTN in June 2008) interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates.[22] As a result, Luken moved RTN operations to its headquarters inChattanooga, Tennessee, and dropped all Equity-owned affiliates, including KUBX and KCBU, immediately.[23] KUSG itself was not affected (aside from the aforementioned interruption in network programming), as it was not an Equity station, but its satellite and Salt Lake City-areaComcast coverage was lost, as they received the station's programming via KUBX/KCBU.[24]
By June 2009, KUSG had dropped RTN (which rebranded to RTV that month) forThis TV;[25] it then added programming fromMyNetworkTV on September 20, 2010, and changed its call sign to KMYU on November 16, 2010.[9] Outside of MyNetworkTV, KMYU continued to air This TV programs until 2015. On September 8, 2011,Sinclair Broadcast Group announced its intent to purchase Four Points from Cerberus Capital Management for $200 million; Sinclair began managing the stations, including KMYU, under local marketing agreements following antitrust approval.[26] The deal was completed on January 3, 2012.[27]
In September and early October 2011, the station airedNBC's newperiod dramaThe Playboy Club in lieu ofKSL-TV (channel 5), which refused to air it due to management concerns about content and the program's promotion ofPlayboy magazine. The program aired at NBC's original Monday night 9 p.m. (MT) timeslot for the series on KMYU.[28] LikeCoupling in 2003 however, which KSL also declined to air and aired on the then-KUWB (channel 30, nowKUCW), it only aired three episodes before the network made it the first canceled new series of the new television season.[29]
In 2017, Sinclairproposed the purchase of Tribune Media, which owned Salt Lake CityFox affiliateKSTU (channel 13).[30] As part of divestitures related to the deal, Sinclair announced in April 2018 that it would have sold KMYU toHoward Stirk Holdings while continuing to provide services to the station.[31] However, flaws with the deal in other cities—notably Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and St. Louis—resulted in the FCC commissioners designating the transaction for hearing before anadministrative law judge in July 2018,[32] which led to its cancellation the following month.[33]
KMYU's sports programming includes liveUtah High School Activities Associationhigh school football games, including state championships; KMYU also airsTalkin' Sports, a nightly sports talk show aired after KUTV's 10 p.m. newscast, which it simulcasts. In 2015, KMYU became the main regional broadcaster ofMajor League Soccer's Real Salt Lake.[34] Sinclair renewed its contract in 2018.[35][36][37][b] KMYU has also aired matches from RSL's reserve teamReal Monarchs (in theUSL) and its women's teamUtah Royals FC (NWSL).[39][40][41] In 2024, KMYU began broadcasting weekend home games for theSalt Lake BeesMinor League Baseball team.[42]
After KUSG adopted its own separate schedule in 2008, it began airing Southern Utah-specific news updates.[43] Even though multiple KUTV newscasts are repeated or simulcast on KMYU, the station has no dedicated newscasts. National news coverage is provided by the Sinclair-producedThe National Desk and the airing of Sinclair'sFull Measure withSharyl Attkisson.[44]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 12.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KMYU-HD | MyNetworkTV |
| 2.1 | 1080i | KUTV-HD | CBS (KUTV) |
KMYU shut down its analog signal, overVHF channel 12, on June 12, 2009, as part of thefederally mandated transition from analog to digital television, continuing to broadcast in digital on VHF channel 9 (usingvirtual channel 12).[46]
Two translators in Iron County rebroadcast KMYU, with most of its coverage coming as a KUTV subchannel on that station's translators.[45]
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