KUED
KUED, virtual channel 7 (UHF digital channel 27), branded on-air as PBS Utah, 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 at the Eccles Broadcast Center 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 state. 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, courtesy of 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 PBS succeeded NET in 1970, the focus of  programming changed to educational and entertainment programming. After having branded with its call letters and channel number for virtually its entire history, KUED announced on November 4, 2019 that it would rebrand as "PBS Utah" on November 25, adopting the updated national PBS logo and branding that was unveiled the same day. Technical information. Subchannels. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: On March 7, 2017, KUED replaced V-me on digital 7.3 with PBS Kids. On December 29, 2017, KUED added Create on digital subchannel 7.4. 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. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 42, using PSIP to display KUED's virtual channel as 7 on digital television receivers. Satellite stations and translators. KUED has two full power satellites serving rural areas of Utah, both digital-only: Notes: Aside from their transmitters, KUES and KUEW do not maintain any physical presence in their cities of license. Additionally, KUED can be seen on over 85 translator stations covering all of Utah, plus parts of Arizona, Idaho , Nevada and Wyoming.