KTVX
 
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Salt Lake City, Utah United States |
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| Branding | ABC 4 Utah (general) ABC 4 Utah News (newscasts) MeTV Utah (DT2) |
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Good 4 Utah (general) Utah's First TV Station (alternate) |
| Channels |
Digital: 40 (UHF) Virtual: 4 () |
| Translators | (see article) |
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| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | April 19, 1948 |
| Call letters' meaning | TeleVision EXcellence |
| Sister station(s) | KUCW |
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| Transmitter power | 475.7 kW |
| Height | 1,256 m |
| Facility ID | 68889 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°39′33″N 112°12′7″W / 40.65917°N 112.20194°WCoordinates: 40°39′33″N 112°12′7″W / 40.65917°N 112.20194°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.good4utah.com |
KTVX, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 40), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The station is owned by the Nexstar Media Group, as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate KUCW (channel 30). The two stations share studio facilities located on West 1700 South in Salt Lake City (along I-215), and its transmitter is located atop Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City. The station is also available on Comcast channel 4 and in high definition on digital channel 652. The station has a large network of broadcast translators that extend its over-the-air coverage throughout Utah, as well as portions of Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming.
KTVX traces its history back to the November 1946 sign-on of W6XIS, the first television station in Utah, which operated under an experimental broadcast license. The station began regular broadcasts on April 19, 1948 as KDYL-TV; it was originally owned by the Mountain Broadcasting Corporation (operated by Sid Fox), along with KDYL radio (1320 AM, now KFNZ, and 98.7 FM, now KBEE). The floor in the original studio facility was sloped and cameras would easily roll. The station's original transmitter sat atop the Walker Bank Building. Channel 4 originally operated as an NBC affiliate owing to KDYL-AM's longtime affiliation with the NBC Red Network; the radio station had been one of the network's original 26 affiliates when it launched in 1926. In addition, the station also shared ABC programming with CBS affiliate KSL-TV (channel 5, now an NBC affiliate) until KUTV (channel 2) signed on in September 1954 as a full-time ABC affiliate. KTVX is the oldest television station located in the Mountain Time Zone and the third oldest station located west of the Mississippi River. It was also the first independently owned television station to sign-on in the United States. The station changed its call letters to KTVT in 1953 (those call letters are now used on the CBS owned-and-operated station in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas), For a brief period during the mid-1950s, it was owned by Time Life Inc.
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