KUED

KUED
Salt Lake City, Utah
United States
Branding KUED 7
Slogan TV Worth Watching
Channels Digital: 27 (UHF)
Virtual: 7 (PSIP)
Affiliations
Owner University of Utah
First air date January 20, 1958 (1958-01-20)
Call letters' meaning Utah EDucation
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 7 (VHF, 1958–2009)
  • Digital:
  • 42 (UHF, until 2018)
Former affiliations NET (1958–1970)
Transmitter power 158 kW (STA)
374 kW (CP)
Height 1,266 m (4,154 ft)
Facility ID 69396
Transmitter coordinates 40°39′33″N 112°12′10″W / 40.65917°N 112.20278°W / 40.65917; -112.20278Coordinates: 40°39′33″N 112°12′10″W / 40.65917°N 112.20278°W / 40.65917; -112.20278
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.kued.org

KUED, virtual channel 7 (UHF digital channel 27), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The station is owned by the University of Utah. KUED's studios are located on Wasatch Drive in the northeastern section of Salt Lake City, and its transmitter is located on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City. The station has a large network 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 being Provo-licensed KBYU-TV (channel 11), owned by Brigham Young University. In October 2017, it was announced that KBYU would drop PBS programming on June 30, 2018 in favor of its own BYUtv service, leaving KUED as the sole PBS station for the area.[1]

History

The station first signed on the air on January 20, 1958, with an episode of The 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, thanks to Time-Life Inc., then-owners of KTVT (channel 4, now KTVX). A $100,000 grant from the Ford 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 from National Educational Television (NET) and other sources. When the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) succeeded NET in 1970, the focus of programming changed to educational and entertainment programming.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[2]
7.1720p16:9KUED-HDMain KUED programming / PBS
7.2480iWorldWorld
7.3KidsPBS Kids
7.4CreateCreate

On March 7, 2017, KUED replaced V-me on digital 7.3 with PBS Kids.[3]

On December 29, 2017, KUED added Create on digital subchannel 7.4[4]

Analog-to-digital conversion

KUED shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[5] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 42,[6] using PSIP to display KUED's virtual channel as 7 on digital television receivers.

Rebroadcasters

KUED has two full power relay stations serving rural areas of Utah, both digital-only:

Station City of license Channel
RF / VC		 First air date ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter Coordinates
KUES Richfield 19 (UHF)
19 (PSIP)		 2000 0.33 kW 441 m (1,447 ft) 82576 38°38′3.9″N 112°3′35.7″W / 38.634417°N 112.059917°W / 38.634417; -112.059917 (KUES)
KUEW St. George 18 (UHF)
18 (PSIP)		 2002 1.62 kW 66.5 m (218 ft) 82585 37°3′49.9″N 113°34′22.8″W / 37.063861°N 113.573000°W / 37.063861; -113.573000 (KUEW)

Additionally, KUED can be seen on over 85 translator stations covering all of Utah, plus parts of Arizona, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming.

CityCallsignCityCallsignCityCallsign
Hatch, UtahK36FV-D Parowan, UtahK38CM-D
Heber & Midway, UtahK33FX-D
Helper, UtahK07NS Preston, IdahoK50IE-D
Beaver, Utah, etc.K07GY Randolph & Woodruff, UtahK38GN-D
Brian Head, UtahK43IO Huntsville, Utah, etc.K35GG-D
Roosevelt, UtahK45GN-D
Cedar City, UtahK07GQ-D Rural Garfield County, UtahK22FT-D
Cedar City, UtahK45HD-D
Circleville, UtahK33JD-D Laketown, Utah, etc.K46GD-D Rural Juab County, Utah, etc.K49AO-D
Rural Sevier County, UtahK33DU-D
Delta & Oak City, UtahK47HM-D Little America, Wyoming, etc.K45GO-D
Duchesne, UtahK03CN Long Valley Junction, UtahK50GD-D Salina & Redmond, UtahK15FF-D
East Price, UtahK07OQ Salina & Redmond, UtahK22HY-D
Emery, UtahK43EV Manti & Ephraim, UtahK30JI-D
Enoch & Summit, Utah, etc.K50HI Manti & Ephraim, UtahK33FT-D Spring Glen, Utah, etc.K06DR
Mexican Hat, Utah, etc.K14QC-D Summit County, UtahK47HB-D
Fillmore, Utah, etc.K48ED Milford, Utah, etc.K20GH-D
Garrison, etc., Utah, etc.K35IR-D Modena, Utah, etc.K21EI-D
Monticello, Utah, etc.K40AF-D Vernal, Utah, etc.K13HF
Montpelier, IdahoK14NT-D
Mount Pleasant, UtahK22FW-D
Green River, UtahK07OV Orangeville, Utah, etc.K22FX Wendover, UtahK15GZ-D
Hanna & Tabiona, UtahK03HM Orderville, Utah, etc.K07OY

References

  1. ↑ Pierce, Scott D. (October 23, 2017). "KBYU-TV will no longer be a PBS station in 2018 — and KBYU-FM will abandon classical music". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KUED
  3. ↑ KUED to Launch KUED PBS Kids Channel Services
  4. ↑ KUED to Add Create Channel
  5. ↑ List of Digital Full-Power Stations Archived 2013-08-29 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ [http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11628657 Congress delays digital TV switch until June; Utah sticks to original cutoff, Vince Horiuchi, Salt Lake Tribune February 4, 2009
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