KUTH
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Provo/Salt Lake City, Utah United States |
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| City | Provo, Utah |
| Branding | Univision 32 (general) Noticias 32 Salt Lake City (newscasts) |
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Digital: 32 (UHF) Virtual: 32 () |
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Univision Communications (Univision Salt Lake City LLC) |
| First air date | April 17, 2003 |
| Call letters' meaning | UTaH |
| Former callsigns | KCBU (2003–2004) |
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| Former affiliations | Independent (2003–2004) |
| Transmitter power | 194 kW |
| Height | 812 m |
| Facility ID | 81451 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°16′45″N 111°56′0″W / 40.27917°N 111.93333°WCoordinates: 40°16′45″N 111°56′0″W / 40.27917°N 111.93333°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KUTH-DT, virtual and UHF digital channel 32, is a Univision owned-and-operated television station serving Salt Lake City, Utah, United States that is licensed to Provo. The station is owned by Univision Communications. KUTH maintains studio facilities located on West Amelia Earhart Drive in the northwestern section of Salt Lake City, and its transmitter located west of Orem, in the Lake Mountains.
The station first signed on the air on April 17, 2003 as KCBU, operating as an independent station; it was originally owned by Cocola Broadcasting. Univision Communications bought the station in October 2004 and entered into an outsourcing agreement with Equity Broadcasting (which Univision's principals held a stake in at the time) to operate the station. At that time, channel 32 swapped affiliations and call signs with what was then KUTH (Utah's original full-power Univision affiliate on channel 12, licensed to Logan, Utah, which became KUTF in 2005) and became the new Univision affiliate.
When Univision sold the last of its shares in Equity Broadcasting in 2007, KUTH was supposed to go to Equity outright; however, the transfer of KUTH from Univision to Equity never materialized. Later, Univision planned to purchase KUTF to create a duopoly with KUTH but cancelled its plans shortly after Newport Television announced the sale of its Salt Lake City duopoly to High Plains Broadcasting; by that time, private-equity firm Providence Equity Partners owned sizable stakes in both Univision and Newport Television. This cancellation resulted in Newport Television retaining ownership of KTVX (channel 4) and selling only KUCW (channel 30) to High Plains Broadcasting (with Newport Television continuing to control both of those stations).
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