{{infobox broadcast | call letters | KSL-TV| city | station_logo 200px| station_branding KSL 5 (general)KSL 5 News HD (newscasts)| analog | digital 38 (UHF) Virtual: 5 (PSIP)| other_chs (see article)| subchannels 5.1 NBC5.2 Universal Sports 5.3 Live 5 Weather Channel| network | founded | airdate June 1, 1949| location Salt Lake City, Utah| callsign_meaning Salt Lake| former_callsigns | former_channel_numbers Analog:5 (VHF, 1949–2009)| owner Bonneville International| licensee Bonneville Holding Company| sister_stations KSL radio, KRSP-FM, KSFI, KUTR(through a sister division it is also related to KBYU-TV and KBYU-FM)| former_affiliations ABC / DuMont / CBS (1949–1995)| effective_radiated_power 546 kW | HAAT 1267 m | class | facility_id 6359| coordinates | homepage tv.ksl.com| }} |
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KSL-TV is owned by Bonneville International Corporation, which is in turn owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). A sister station to KSL Newsradio (AM 1160 and FM 102.7), KSL-TV is also related to KBYU-FM and KBYU-TV in Provo through Brigham Young University (BYU), also owned by the LDS Church.
In 1952, a 370-foot transmission tower was constructed on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains to improve coverage all along the Wasatch Front and into Tooele County. It also began building a massive translator network stretching across five states, and now claims the largest coverage of any station in the United States.
KSL-AM-FM-TV was a division of the Deseret News until 1964, when Bonneville International was formed as the parent company for the LDS Church's broadcasting holdings. Soon afterward, channel 5 broadcast in color for the first time. In 1984 the station moved its Broadcast House to the Triad Center.
In 2002, Bruce Christensen was named the President of KSL-TV. Christensen is the former president of PBS, the former dean of the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications, as well as a former reporter for KSL-TV.
In July 2010, KSL-TV took over the local marketing agreement (LMA) for independent station KJZZ-TV upon the conclusion of the five-year LMA between that station and KUTV.
In 1995, KSL-TV became a NBC affiliate, after the network sold KUTV (which swapped affiliations with what is now KTVX in 1960) to a partnership of CBS and Group W as part of a swap involving stations in Denver, Miami and Philadelphia. Initially, NBC sought to reaffiliate with KTVX; but after KTVX renewed its ABC affiliation, NBC then secured its current affiliation agreement with KSL-TV.
On January 1, 2009 KSL discontinued their version of NBC Weather Plus due to discontinuation of the service by NBC, and relaunched the 5.3 subchannel as a locally-compiled automated weather channel, Live 5 Weather Channel, which unlike Weather Plus airs in 480i widescreen.
KSL-TV airs most of the programming on the NBC schedule, as well as locally produced news and sports programs. It also airs some independent programs relevant to Mormonism, such as History of the Saints, Music and the Spoken Word and Mormon Times. LDS General Conference is also carried live by the station, preempting any programs in the affected time slots. KSL-TV is one of the few remaining television stations in the United States that still signs off at night, doing so at 3:30 am Saturday nights.
Occasionally the station has decided not to air some network programs, such as the short-lived sitcom Coupling and the long-running Saturday Night Live (SNL). SNL is preempted for the local SportsBeat Saturday, a holdover from the station's CBS days (KUCW, a CW affiliate, currently airs SNL instead). As a CBS affiliate KSL-TV aired the drama Picket Fences at 11pm on Saturdays instead of 9pm on Fridays. On June 12, 2011, KSL-TV announced it had declined to carry the period drama The Playboy Club. The station's president stated the show was "completely inconsistent" with the station's own mission and branding. The station is a sponsor of the "Out in the Light Campaign," which educates people on problems associated with viewing pornography, and the station did not want to be associated with the Playboy brand. MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYU/KUTV-DT2 will air the program in the market at the original 9:00 pm Mountain Time Monday time slot, displacing one episode of a Law & Order: Criminal Intent rerun from the netlet's schedule to elsewhere.
Even with its tradition of screening possibly objectionable programs, some, such as The Book of Daniel (which was not shown by several other NBC affiliates, especially in Bible Belt states) and a paid political message criticizing the Iraq War (which featured Cindy Sheehan) have been aired by the station.
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Category:Television stations in Utah Category:Media in Salt Lake City, Utah Category:NBC network affiliates Category:Bonneville International Category:Deseret Management Corporation Category:Channel 38 digital TV stations in the United States Category:Television channels and stations established in 1949 Category:American Basketball Association flagship television stations
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