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Provo/Salt Lake City, Utah United States |
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City | Provo, Utah |
Branding | Eleven |
Slogan | At Home With Eleven |
Channels |
Digital: 44 (UHF) Virtual: 11 () |
Subchannels | 11.1 PBS 11.2 BYUtv 11.3 BYUtv International |
Affiliations | PBS |
Owner | Brigham Young University |
First air date | November 15, 1965 |
Call letters' meaning |
Brigham Young University |
Sister station(s) | KBYU-FM |
Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 11 (VHF, 1965–2009) |
Former affiliations | NET (1965–1970) |
Transmitter power | 346 kW |
Height | 1257 m |
Facility ID | 6823 |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°39′33″N 112°12′7″W / 40.65917°N 112.20194°W |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
Website | www.kbyutv.org |
KBYU-TV, virtual channel 11 (UHF digital channel 44), is a PBS member television station serving Salt Lake City, Utah, United States that is licensed to Provo. The station is owned by Brigham Young University BYU), which is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). KBYU maintains studio facilities located on the BYU campus in Provo, 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, as well as portions of Idaho and Colorado. It is one of at least two PBS member stations that is owned and operated by a religious-based organization (the other being KMBH in Harlingen, Texas).
KBYU-TV was first licensed by the Federal Communications Commission on November 7, 1965. It first signed on the air just over a week later, on November 15. This made Salt Lake City one of the smallest markets with two non-commercial educational stations. In 2010, KBYU rebranded as "Eleven."
The station's digital channel is multiplexed: