KUED

Salt Lake City, Utah United States
Channels	Digital: 27 (UHF) Virtual: 7
Branding	PBS Utah
Programming
Affiliations	7.1:PBS for others, see§ Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	University of Utah
Sister stations	KUEN KUER-FM
History
First air date	January 20, 1958 (67 years ago) (1958-01-20)
Former call signs	KUTA (CP, 1956–1957)[1]
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 7 (VHF, 1958–2009) Digital: 42 (UHF, 2002–2018)
Former affiliations	NET (1958–1970)
Call sign meaning	Utah Education
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	69396
ERP	374 kW
HAAT	1,266 m (4,154 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	40°39′33″N112°12′10″W / 40.65917°N 112.20278°W /40.65917; -112.20278
Translator(s)	see§ Satellite stations and translators
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.pbsutah.org

KUED (channel 7), brandedPBS Utah, is aPBS membertelevision station inSalt Lake City, Utah, United States. The station is owned by theUniversity of Utah, and has studios at theEccles Broadcast Center on Wasatch Drive in the northeastern section of Salt Lake City; its transmitter is located onFarnsworth Peak in theOquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City. KUED has a largenetwork of broadcast translators that extend its over-the-air coverage throughout Utah.

Prior to July 2018, KUED was one of two PBS member stations serving Utah, the other beingProvo-licensedKBYU-TV (channel 11), owned byBrigham Young University. In October 2017, it was announced that KBYU would drop PBS programming on June 30, 2018, in favor of its ownBYUtv service, leaving KUED as the sole PBS station for the state.^[3]

The station first signed on the air on January 20, 1958, with an episode ofThe Friendly Giant. The station originally broadcast from improvised studios set up in the basement of the old student union building on the University of Utah campus. The station had humble beginnings with no props, primitive equipment, and a donated transmitter, courtesy ofTime-Life Inc., then-owners of KTVT (channel 4, nowKTVX). A $100,000 grant from theFord Foundation made it possible from KUED to sign on the air.

Early programming was purely educational, in some cases consisting of nothing more than a teacher standing in front of a chalk board and lecturing. About half of the programs aired were locally produced, with the rest coming fromNational Educational Television (NET) and other sources. When PBS succeeded NET in 1970, the focus of programming changed to educational and entertainment programming.

For most of the time from 1965 to 1988, KUED was the default NET/PBS member station for most ofMontana; cable systems in most of the state fromButte eastward piped in KUED. WhenKUSM signed on fromBozeman as the first public television station in Montana, it simulcast KUED for PBS programming for its first three years on the air as part of a partnership between the U of U and KUSM's owner,Montana State University. This gave KUSM time to train its staff and build local support. In 1988,TCI Cable, which by then had become the dominant cable provider in most of Montana, began phasing out KUED, with KUSM completely replacing KUED across TCI's footprint by 1990.

After having branded with its call letters and channel number for virtually its entire history, KUED announced on November 4, 2019, that it would rebrand as "PBS Utah" on November 25, adopting the updated national PBS logo and branding that was unveiled the same day.^[4][5]

The stations' signals aremultiplexed:

On March 7, 2017, KUED replacedV-me on digital 7.3 withPBS Kids.^[9]

On December 29, 2017, KUED addedCreate on digital subchannel 7.4.^[10]

KUED shut down its analog signal, overVHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009, as part of thefederally mandated transition from analog to digital television.^[11] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transitionUHF channel 42,^[12] usingvirtual channel 7.

KUED has two full powersatellites serving rural areas of Utah, both digital-only:

Notes:

• 1. KUES used the callsign KAVT during its construction permit from September 15 to November 3, 1997.

Aside from their transmitters, KUES and KUEW do not maintain any physical presence in their cities of license.

Additionally, KUED can be seen on over 85translator stations covering all of Utah, plus parts ofArizona,Idaho,Nevada andWyoming.^[6]

• KUEN (also known as UEN-TV)
• KUER

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