KSTU
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Salt Lake City, Utah United States |
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| Branding | Fox 13 (general) Fox 13 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Connect |
| Channels |
Digital: 28 (UHF) Virtual: 13 () |
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| Owner |
Tribune Broadcasting (KSTU License, LLC) |
| First air date | October 24, 1978 (current license dates from November 9, 1987) |
| Call letters' meaning |
Springfield Television of Utah (original owners) |
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| Former affiliations | Independent (1978–1986) |
| Transmitter power | 350 kW |
| Height | 1210 m |
| Facility ID | 22215 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°39′30″N 112°12′8″W / 40.65833°N 112.20222°WCoordinates: 40°39′30″N 112°12′8″W / 40.65833°N 112.20222°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | fox13now |
KSTU, virtual channel 13 (UHF digital channel 28), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Media Company. KSTU maintains studio facilities located on West Amelia Earhart Drive in the northwestern section of Salt Lake City, and its transmitter 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 Nevada.
The station first signed on the air on October 24, 1978 under the ownership of Massachusetts-based Springfield Television, which also owned NBC affiliate WWLP in Springfield, Massachusetts and ABC affiliate WKEF in Dayton, Ohio. It was the first independent station in Utah, as well as the first new commercial station to sign on in the area since KUTV (channel 2) hit the airwaves 24 years earlier. Salt Lake City had a fairly long wait for an independent station compared to other cities of its size; it had been big enough on paper to support one since the early 1960s. However, the Salt Lake City market covers all of Utah and large slices of Nevada and Wyoming, forcing all of the major stations to build a large network of low-power translators to cover it. The costs associated with building a translator network scared off most prospective investors until the 1970s. By the mid-1970s, however, cable television--a must for acceptable television in much of Utah--had gotten enough penetration in the market to lessen the need for translators and make an independent station viable.
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