KSTU
KSTU (
"FOX13") is the
Fox owned-and-operated television station serving the
Salt Lake City, Utah television market. It broadcasts on analog channel 13, and digital television channel 28.
Other than first run programming and sports from Fox, the station also airs court shows, reality shows, talk shows, off-network sitcoms, and over 30 hours of local news programming a week. The station carries
4Kids TV on Saturday mornings.
KSTU began operation on
October 9,
1978 as the first
independent station in Utah, under the ownership of
Massachusetts-based
Springfield Television, who also owned
NBC-affiliate
WWLP in
Springfield, Massachusetts and
ABC-affiliate
WKEF in
Dayton, Ohio. The station originally transmitted on UHF channel 20, and aired cartoons, off-network classic TV Sitcoms, old movies, and drama shows.
The station became a Fox affiliate in the spring of 1987, and came under the ownership of Adams Communications later that year following a merger. The
FCC soon dropped in an additional VHF allocation for Salt Lake City on channel 13, and Adams Communications acquired the construction permit for that allocation. KSTU then moved to channel 13, and returned the channel 20 license to the FCC. The station was known as
"FOX13" by 1989, and was sold to Fox the next year, making it a Fox O&O.
The station replaced most of the classic sitcoms on its lineup with talk shows in the mid-1990s. It launched a 9pm newscast in 1996, and added a morning newscast (
Good Day Utah) a few years later, replacing morning cartoons. The station added more reality shows and court shows in 2002, once Fox dropped the weekday children's block nationally.
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FOX13 Good Day Utah - 5-9AM
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FOX13 News Live at 11 - 11AM-12PM
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FOX13 News at 5 - 5-5:30PM (Weekends Only)
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FOX13 News at 9 - 9-10:05PM
Image:Kstu2083.jpg|Logo for KSTU on channel 20, from 1983. The compass in the logo was used in the logos of all stations owned by Springfield Television.*
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