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{{Short description|Television station in Salt Lake City}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign = KSL-TV
| logo = KSL NBC 5.svg
| logo_size = 220px
| image = Triad center slc utah.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| branding = KSL 5; ''KSL News''
| digital = 23 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 5
| translators = ''see {{Section link||Translators}}''
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''5.1:''' [[NBC]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner = [[Bonneville International Corporation]]
| location = [[Salt Lake City]], Utah
| country = United States
| airdate = {{start date and age|1949|6|1|p=y}}
| callsign_meaning = Salt Lake City
| sister_stations = {{ubl|'''TV:''' [[KBYU-TV]]|'''Radio:''' [[KRSP-FM]], [[KSFI]], [[KSL (AM)|KSL]], [[KSL-FM]]}}
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 5 ([[VHF]], 1949–2009)|'''Digital:''' 38 (UHF, 1999–2018)}}
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[CBS]] (1949–1995)|[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] (secondary, 1949–1954)|[[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]] (secondary, 1949–1955)}}
| erp = 398 [[kW]]
| haat = {{convert|1267|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 6359
| coordinates = {{coord|40|39|33|N|112|12|10|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline, title}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|https://ksltv.com/}}
}}

[[File:Triad Center (SLC) - 5 September 2012.JPG|235px|thumb|right|The Triad Center, in downtown Salt Lake City, with the KSL Broadcast House at far left.]]
'''KSL-TV''' (channel 5) is a [[television station]] in [[Salt Lake City]], Utah, United States, affiliated with [[NBC]]. It is the [[Flagship (broadcasting)|flagship]] television property of locally based [[Bonneville International]], the for-profit broadcasting arm of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church), and is [[sister station|sister]] to radio stations [[KSL (AM)|KSL]] (1160 AM) and [[KSL-FM]] (102.7). The three stations share studios at the Broadcast House building in Salt Lake City's [[Triad Center]]; KSL-TV's transmitter is located on [[Farnsworth Peak]] in the [[Oquirrh Mountains]], southwest of Salt Lake City. The station has a large [[#Translators|network of broadcast translators]] that extend its over-the-air coverage throughout [[Utah]], as well as portions of [[Arizona]], [[Idaho]], [[Nevada]] and [[Wyoming]].

KSL-TV is one of a few for-profit U.S. television stations owned by a religious institution (most U.S. TV stations owned by religious institutions are affiliated with [[non-profit]] [[religious broadcasting]] networks).

==History==
===Primary CBS affiliate===
Radio Service Corporation of Utah, owner of [[KSL (AM)|KSL]] (1160 AM), filed the application to apply for a construction permit on May 26, 1948, and was granted on July 29.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=85409 |title=History Cards for KSL-TV |publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]}} ([[Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio Stations/History Cards|Guide to reading History Cards]])<!--Converted from {{FCC letter}}--></ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Station KSL Sets June Video Casts |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/deseret-news-station-ksl-sets-june-video/172935898/ |access-date=May 22, 2025 |newspaper=The Deseret News |date=March 6, 1949 |location=Salt Lake City, Utah |page=B-1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Television in Salt Lake City has been first conducted by KSL in 1946.<ref>{{cite news |title=KSL Gets Television Permit |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/deseret-news-ksl-gets-television-permit/172936124/ |access-date=May 22, 2025 |newspaper=The Deseret News |date=November 14, 1948 |location=Salt Lake City, Utah |page=R-19 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

The station first signed on the air on June 1, 1949, operating from studios in the Union Pacific Building on Main Street. It was owned by the ''[[Deseret News]]'', who also owned KSL radio (1160 AM and 100.3 FM, now [[KSFI]]). It originally operated as a [[CBS]] affiliate, owing to its sister radio station's longtime affiliation with the [[CBS Radio Network]]. In addition to its primary CBS affiliation, the station also shared [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] programming with NBC affiliate KDYL-TV (channel 4, now [[KTVX]]). The two stations continued to share ABC programming until [[KUTV]] (channel 2) signed on in September 1954 as the [[media market|market]]'s full-time ABC affiliate. The station also broadcast some programming from the [[DuMont Television Network]], and during the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the [[NTA Film Network]].<ref name="Boxoffice7">{{Citation|title=Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films |journal=Boxoffice |pages=13 |date=November 10, 1956 |url=http://issuu.com/boxoffice/docs/boxoffice_111056-1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090614204506/http://issuu.com/boxoffice/docs/boxoffice_111056-1 |archive-date=June 14, 2009 }}</ref>

A few months after its sign-on, KSL moved its operations to studio facilities at the Broadcast House on [[Social Hall Avenue]]. In 1952, a {{convert|370|ft|m|adj=on}} transmission tower was constructed on Farnsworth Peak to improve the station's signal coverage along the [[Wasatch Front]] and into [[Tooele County]]. It also began building a massive translator network that eventually stretched across five states.

When KSL first began broadcasting, all programs were produced locally or recorded content from out of the area (such as delayed [[Kinescope]] recordings).<ref>{{cite news |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=May 31, 1941 |title=Co-Axial Cable Completion Will Hook East, West Coasts |url=https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s699362x/25654652 |newspaper=[[Deseret News]] |location=Salt Lake City |page=TV-12 |access-date=January 4, 2025}}</ref> This changed in 1951, when AT&T completed their coast-to-coast [[AT&T Communications (1984–2010)#Microwave relay network|microwave relay network]] allowing the station to tap into live television feeds from its affiliated networks. KSL first broadcast live network programming on September 30, 1951, with a broadcast of ABC's ''[[Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue]]''.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=September 30, 1951 |title=Durante's Long Nose Proves Ubiquitous |url=https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6353jbd/25634682 |newspaper=[[Deseret News]] |location=Salt Lake City |page=1B |access-date=January 4, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=September 25, 1951 |title=Coast-to-Coast Network Television |url=https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qz78z6/25634522 |newspaper=[[Deseret News]] |location=Salt Lake City |page=6T |access-date=January 4, 2025}}</ref> Prior to this, KSL had been producing 40 live shows weekly.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=September 26, 1951 |title=Opening of Network Brings New TV Era to West |url=https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sb9r9n/29008630 |newspaper=[[The Salt Lake Tribune]] |location=Salt Lake City |at=Television News Section, pp. 1, 4 |access-date=January 4, 2025}}</ref>

The KSL stations operated as 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 began broadcasting its programming in color. In 1984, the station moved to its current facility at Triad Center, also named Broadcast House.<ref>{{cite news |title=Broadcast House at Triad Center-A Reflection of KSL's Commitment to the Future |newspaper=[[Deseret News]]|location=[[Salt Lake City]]|date=July 12, 1984}}</ref>

===Switch to NBC affiliate===
{{further|1994–1996 United States broadcast television realignment}}
In July 1994, CBS and [[Westinghouse Broadcasting]] (Group W) agreed to a long-term affiliation deal for the five Group W television stations, including longtime NBC affiliate [[KYW-TV]] in [[Philadelphia]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Carter|first=Bill|title=CBS to Add Three Affiliates in Deal With Westinghouse|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/15/business/the-media-business-cbs-to-add-three-affiliates-in-deal-with-westinghouse.html|access-date=July 12, 2012|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 15, 1994}}</ref> That November, NBC agreed to trade their O&O stations [[KCNC-TV]] and KUTV (which was acquired by NBC earlier that year) to CBS in return for CBS' former O&O in Philadelphia, [[WCAU-TV]], as a result of a complex ownership deal between the network, Westinghouse and NBC.<ref name="CBS, NBC Changing Channels">[http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1994-11-22/news/9411210600_1_wcix-nbc-programs-stations CBS, NBC Changing Channels] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703093638/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1994-11-22/news/9411210600_1_wcix-nbc-programs-stations |date=July 3, 2011 }}, ''[[South Florida Sun-Sentinel]]'', November 22, 1994.</ref> NBC also traded their VHF channel 4 frequency and transmitter in [[Miami]] (then home to [[WTVJ]]) to CBS in exchange for the channel 6 frequency in Miami (then home to WCIX, which subsequently became [[WFOR-TV]]).<ref name="CBS, NBC Changing Channels"/> The deal took effect on September 10, 1995, resulting in the first network affiliation switch in Salt Lake City since KTVX swapped affiliations with KUTV and became an ABC affiliate in 1960. Initially, NBC sought to reaffiliate with KTVX; but after that station renewed its affiliation agreement with ABC, NBC then secured an affiliation deal with KSL-TV. KUTV continued to air one NBC program, ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', for five more months until January 1996, when it was moved to then-WB affiliate KOOG-TV (now [[The CW|CW]] [[owned-and-operated station]] [[KUCW]]).

On January 14, 1999, a shooter entered the station's Broadcast House facility, allegedly looking for a KSL-TV reporter. Anne Sleater, an employee of another company that was housed in the building, [[AT&T Mobility|AT&T Wireless Services]], was shot during the incident and later died from her injuries. De-Kieu Duy, a 24-year-old female, was arrested in connection with the shooting.<ref>{{citation |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyRGQRsyZKw  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/UyRGQRsyZKw |archive-date=December 22, 2021 |url-status=live|title= KSL Triad Center Shooting |date= March 26, 2021 |accessdate= May 11, 2021 |first= Sonny |last= Graham }}{{cbignore}}</ref> Duy was later found mentally incompetent to stand trial and is currently housed in the [[Utah State Hospital]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Infamous shooting incidents in Salt Lake County |last=Ogata|first=Wendy|newspaper=[[Deseret Morning News]] |date=February 13, 2007 |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/660195182/Infamous-shooting-incidents-in-Salt-Lake-County.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110111044658/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/660195182/Infamous-shooting-incidents-in-Salt-Lake-County.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 11, 2011|publisher=[[Deseret Digital Media]]|location=[[Salt Lake City]]|access-date=April 5, 2013}}</ref>

In 2002, Bruce Christensen was named the president of KSL-TV; Christensen was a former president of [[PBS]], the former dean of the [[BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications]], as well as a former KSL-TV reporter. During the [[2002 Winter Olympics]] in Salt Lake City, KSL-TV was very influential in bringing coverage and technology to NBC. The station heavily lobbied to NBC that the Games be broadcast live locally.

In July 2010, KSL-TV entered into a [[local marketing agreement]] (LMA) with [[independent station]] [[KJZZ-TV]] (channel 14), after the LMA between that station and KUTV concluded after five years; the LMA was terminated in 2016, after KUTV's owner, [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]], purchased KJZZ.<ref name="slt-kjzzbonnevilleend">{{cite news|last1=Pierce|first1=Scott|title=KUTV's parent buys KJZZ from Millers|url=http://www.sltrib.com/home/3831761-155/kutvs-parent-buys-kjzz-from-millers|access-date=June 20, 2016|work=[[The Salt Lake Tribune]]|date=April 28, 2016}}</ref>

==Programming==
In addition to locally produced news and sports programs, and syndicated shows, KSL broadcasts most of the programs seen on NBC's schedule.

Due to its ties to the LDS Church, KSL-TV also airs programs relevant to [[Mormonism]], such as ''[[History of the Saints]]'', ''[[Music and the Spoken Word]]'' and ''[[Mormon Times]]'', and preempts regularly scheduled programming to carry the twice yearly [[LDS General Conference]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Broadcast, transit information for Mormon general conference |last=Arave|first=Lynn |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700021330/Broadcast-transit-information-for-Mormon-general-conference.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409102512/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700021330/Broadcast-transit-information-for-Mormon-general-conference.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 9, 2010 |newspaper=[[Deseret News]]|publisher=[[Deseret Digital Media]]|location=[[Salt Lake City]] |date=April 2, 2010 |access-date=April 5, 2013}}</ref> KSL-TV is one of the few remaining television stations in the United States that still "signs off" at night (though only nominally, because programming immediately continues afterward), doing so at 3:30&nbsp;a.m. on Sundays.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}

===Program preemptions and deferrals===
Historically, KSL-TV has been known to occasionally preempt or assign out-of-pattern scheduling to certain network programs, either to make room for other local or syndicated programs or because of internal concerns over subject matter that station management deems objectionable, typically due to conflicts with to longstanding LDS Church beliefs. (Many of these preempted programs have aired instead on KUCW (channel 30) or [[KMYU]] (channel 12) over the years.) Preemptions based on content objections have periodically led to inquiries over the sustainability of a religious institution owning a network-affiliated station as content standards and practices in broadcast television have relaxed in recent decades in a reflection of cultural change.<ref name="deseret-cbsksl">{{cite news|title=AS CBS PROGRAMS BECOME MORE RISQUE, WILL KSL-CH. 5 REMAIN A NETWORK AFFILIATE?|url=https://www.deseret.com/1993/1/26/19028883/as-cbs-programs-become-more-risque-will-ksl-ch-5-remain-a-network-affiliate|first=Scott D.|last=Pierce|newspaper=Deseret News|date=January 26, 1993|access-date=July 12, 2021}}</ref>

As a CBS affiliate, in 1977, ''[[Match Game]]'' host [[Gene Rayburn]] mentioned that the often risque then-CBS daytime game show was not being aired in Salt Lake City.<ref>{{cite web|title=Match Game CBS episode 978 (via YouTube)| website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpXP8nNr_CU&t=1080s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/FpXP8nNr_CU |archive-date=December 22, 2021 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 1987, the station was among several affiliates that announced that it would not air the children's animated series ''[[Garbage Pail Kids (TV series)|Garbage Pail Kids]]'' ahead of its originally scheduled premiere amid criticism from parental organizations over concerns about the show's violent content and humor ridiculing the handicapped and the perceived likelihood of it merely being a program-length ad for the [[Garbage Pail Kids|controversial namesake toys and trading cards]].<ref>{{cite news |title=CBS gives in to pressure, dumps 'Garbage Pail Kids' |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=X4ROAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ufoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4985%2C641858 |newspaper=Spokane Chronicle |agency=Associated Press |date=September 18, 1987 |page=20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Affiliated Stations Backing Out |url=http://www.geocities.com/adambombcartoons/why.htm |website=geocities.com/adambombcartoons |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021132611/http://geocities.com/adambombcartoons/why.htm |archive-date=October 21, 2009}}</ref> (Amid the controversy, CBS elected not to air it in the U.S., though its [[CBS Productions|distribution arm]] syndicated it in some international markets.) In the years leading to its switch to NBC, KSL also preempted the 1989–91 [[sitcom]] ''[[Doctor Doctor (American TV series)|Doctor Doctor]]'' (partway into its third and final season in November 1990),<ref>{{cite news|title=KSL YANKS 'DOCTOR, DOCTOR'; CBS PREDICTS 4TH-QUARTER LOSS|url=https://www.deseret.com/1990/11/23/18892808/ksl-yanks-doctor-doctor-cbs-predicts-4th-quarter-loss|first=Scott D.|last=Pierce|newspaper=Deseret News|date=November 23, 1990|access-date=July 12, 2021}}</ref> and three shorter-lived series—''[[Dirty Dancing (1988 TV series)|Dirty Dancing]]'' (in 1988),<ref>{{cite news|title=FIRST OFF...|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-11-03-ca-767-story.html|first=John|last=Voland|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=November 3, 1988|access-date=July 12, 2021}}</ref> prime time [[soap opera]] ''[[2000 Malibu Road]]'' and adult-oriented sitcom ''[[Grapevine (TV series)|Grapevine]]'' (both in 1992)—because of their sexual content.<ref name="deseret-cbsksl"/> KSL removed ''[[Picket Fences]]'' midway through its first season, partly due to objections over a January 1993 episode ("Nuclear Meltdowns") centering on a teenage girl who becomes pregnant through an incestuous plural marriage with a [[polygamist]] Mormon and the perpetrator's allusion that, although plural marriage within the LDS Church ceased after the [[1890 Manifesto]] (issued in response to [[Edmunds–Tucker Act|Congressional acts]] to disincorporate and seize assets of the church over the practice), many Mormons still held polygamist beliefs.<ref>{{cite news|title=KSL PULLS 'PICKET FENCES,' CALLS THE SHOW 'OFFENSIVE'|url=https://www.deseret.com/1993/1/25/19028676/ksl-pulls-picket-fences-calls-the-show-offensive|newspaper=Deseret News|date=January 25, 1993|access-date=July 12, 2021}}</ref> The drama series returned to KSL in its normal network time slot in April 1993,<ref>{{cite news|title=NBC HAS BIG PLANS FOR THE 'CHEERS' FINALE|url=https://www.deseret.com/1993/3/6/19035748/nbc-has-big-plans-for-the-cheers-finale|first=Scott D.|last=Pierce|newspaper=Deseret News|date=March 6, 1993|access-date=July 12, 2021}}</ref> before being shifted to a one-day delay at 11&nbsp;p.m. Saturdays for its second season in September 1993.<ref>"NBC finalizes Salt Lake station deal." - ''[[Adweek]] Western Edition'' January 2, 1995.</ref> The station refused CBS' late night ''[[Crimetime After Primetime]]'' block from September 1990 until its discontinuation after the August 1993 premiere of ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]'' (though this was based more on retaining local control of its late night schedule than over content concerns after the failure of the preceding ''[[Pat Sajak Show]]''),<ref>{{cite news|title=NBC ADDS 3 NEW SHOWS AND CHANGES ITS SCHEDULE ON EVERY NIGHT BUT TUESDAY|url=https://www.deseret.com/1990/12/14/18896180/nbc-adds-3-new-shows-and-changes-its-schedule-on-every-night-but-tuesday|first=Scott D.|last=Pierce|newspaper=Deseret News|date=December 14, 1990|access-date=July 12, 2021}}</ref> and preempted the network's Saturday morning children's program lineup after September 1989. It also was among several Mountain Time CBS stations that aired ''[[CBS This Morning]]'' and [[The Early Show#History of CBS's morning news shows|its predecessors]] on a one-hour-ahead basis (from 6 to 8&nbsp;a.m.) until it shifted the [[morning show]] in-pattern in September 1994 to accommodate an expanded (and relocated, as it was moved up two hours to 6&nbsp;a.m.) local morning newscast.<ref>{{cite news|title=KSL ADDS MORNING NEWS; ELLEN GIVES UP STAND-UP|url=https://www.deseret.com/1994/8/2/19123066/ksl-adds-morning-news-ellen-gives-up-stand-up|first=Scott D.|last=Pierce|newspaper=Deseret News|date=August 2, 1994|access-date=July 12, 2021}}</ref>

As an NBC affiliate, KSL declined to air ''Saturday Night Live'' throughout its first 18 years with the network; despite this, between 1995 and 2013, the station carried all of the long-running sketch comedy's "best-of" compilations, actor tributes, documentary specials and Saturday evening repeats that NBC aired in prime time. Unlike most of the later preemptions, while potentially objectionable content in the series were somewhat an issue for the station (NBC rebuffed KSL management inquiries about delaying ''SNL'' to midnight), the decision was largely made to retain its popular local sports discussion and highlight program ''SportsBeat Saturday''. ''SNL'' initially remained on KUTV under arrangement with CBS until January 1996, before moving to then-WB affiliate KOOG (now KUCW).<ref>{{cite news|title=MIKITA TO ANCHOR NEW KSL AFTERNOON NEWSCAST|url=https://www.deseret.com/1995/7/19/19183118/mikita-to-anchor-new-ksl-afternoon-newscast|first=Scott D.|last=Pierce|newspaper=Deseret News|date=July 19, 1995|access-date=July 12, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=CARROLL O'CONNOR JOINS THE 'PARTY'|url=https://www.deseret.com/1996/1/31/19222360/carroll-o-connor-joins-the-party|first=Scott D.|last=Pierce|newspaper=Deseret News|date=January 31, 1996|access-date=July 12, 2021}}</ref> In June 2013, KSL announced that it would start airing ''SNL'' in its regular timeslot beginning that fall, after revealing that viewership for ''SportsBeat'' had declined in recent years (and was also being beaten by the similar KUTV program ''Talkin' Sports'' in its slot); the [[Utah Utes]] playing more later evening games against [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] opponents following its 2011 shift to the [[Pac-12 Conference]] from the [[Mountain West Conference]] (which played most of its football games in the afternoon) had also made it difficult for ''SportsBeat'' to analyze, carry, and package highlights of games that were often still in progress as it aired.<ref name=slt-snlonksl>{{cite web|title=TV shocker — KSL will start airing "Saturday Night Live" in the fall|url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogstv/56518025-63/ksl-nbc-saturday-channel.html.csp|work=The Salt Lake Tribune|access-date=June 27, 2013}}</ref> KSL-TV also did not air the 1997–99 NBC daytime soap opera ''[[Sunset Beach (TV series)|Sunset Beach]]''; the soap was seen locally on KOOG instead.

Content-wise, Channel 5 declined the short-lived 2003 sitcom ''[[Coupling (American TV series)|Coupling]]'' because of its sexual humor and content, and preempted much of NBC's [[Poker on television|poker programming]] (such as ''[[Poker After Dark]]'' throughout its 2007–11 run) due to Church, ownership and LDS-member viewers' objections toward gambling. In September 2011, KSL-TV also preempted ''[[The Playboy Club]]'' (replacing it with the locally produced [[newsmagazine]] ''We Are Utah''),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/ksl-airs-local-show-in-place-of-playboy-club/|title=KSL Airs Local Show in Place of 'Playboy Club'|last=Gauthier|first=Andrew|date=September 20, 2011|publisher=[[Mediabistro.com|TVSpy.com]]|access-date=April 5, 2013}}</ref> on grounds that the fledgling drama was "completely inconsistent" with the station's mission and branding, not wanting to be associated with the [[Playboy Enterprises|Playboy brand]], even though the program did not specifically focus on the magazine nor include any nudity.<ref name="Playboy_Club_announcement">{{cite news |title=KSL removes Playboy Club from fall TV schedule |url=http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=15941949 |work=ksl.com|publisher=[[Deseret Digital Media]]|location=[[Salt Lake City]]|date=June 12, 2011 |access-date=June 13, 2011}}</ref> (KSL sponsors "Out in the Light", a campaign aimed at educating Utahns on mental, marital and sociological issues associated with viewing [[pornographic material]].)<ref>{{cite news |title=NBC's Playboy bunnies bounced in Salt Lake City |last=de Moraes|first=Lisa |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tv-column/post/nbcs-playboy-bunnies-bounced-in-salt-lake-city/2011/06/13/AGfWjbTH_blog.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|date=June 13, 2011 |access-date=April 5, 2013}}</ref> The program aired on KMYU in its Monday 9&nbsp;p.m. time slot<ref name="tvgpbcnbc">{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/News/Exclusive-Playboy-Club-1034690.aspx|title=Exclusive: The Playboy Club Lands New Home in Salt Lake City|last=Schneider|first=Michael|date=June 28, 2011|publisher=[[TV Guide|TV Guide.com]]|access-date=June 29, 2011}}</ref> until it was canceled by NBC after its third episode. KSL continued to air already-recorded episodes of ''We Are Utah'' in the 9&nbsp;p.m. slot until the October 31, 2011, premiere of ''[[Rock Center with Brian Williams]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogstv/52677344-63/playboy-club-ksl-monday.html.csp|title=NBC axes "The Playboy Club," much to KSL's relief|last=Pierce|first=Scott|date=October 4, 2011|work=[[Salt Lake Tribune]]|location=[[Salt Lake City]]|access-date=October 4, 2011}}</ref> On August 24, 2012, KSL-TV preempted ''[[The New Normal (TV series)|The New Normal]]'' (replacing it with the [[Live Well Network]] series ''My Family Recipe Rocks!'') on a Tuesday timeslot due to objections to the sitcom's storyline surrounding [[gay parenting]], crude dialogue and potentially offensive characterizations. KUCW ran ''The New Normal'' instead in a Saturday night slot.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/54759750-80/ksl-nbc-normal-gay.html.csp|title=KSL won't air gay-themed NBC sitcom 'New Normal'|newspaper=[[The Salt Lake Tribune]]|location=[[Salt Lake City]]|last=Pierce|first=Scott|date=August 24, 2012|access-date=April 5, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/blog-21-8298-tv-tonight-my-family-recipe-rocks_.html|title=TV Tonight: My Family Recipe Rocks!|work=[[Salt Lake City Weekly]]|location=[[Salt Lake City]]|date=September 10, 2012|access-date=April 5, 2013}}</ref> In a twist, although the show was canceled after its first season in May 2013, ''The New Normal'' was the first NBC prime time show that KSL has declined to air since it joined the network in 1995 (and the first prime time network show to have been preempted by Channel 5 since ''Picket Fences'') that lasted at least a full season. (Other prime time series declined by the station for objectionable content have, by coincidence due to insufficient national viewership, been among the network's initial cancellation orders during their debut seasons.)

On April 29, 2013, KSL-TV pulled ''[[Hannibal (TV series)|Hannibal]]'' after four episodes, due to the drama's graphic violent content and material revolving around the [[Hannibal Lecter (franchise)|Hannibal Lecter]] series of novels and films, an action compared by executive producer [[Bryan Fuller]] to how Russian newspaper ''[[Pravda]]'' structured its news coverage to fit the [[Soviet Communist Party]]'s narrative.<ref>{{cite news|title=Scott D. Pierce: 'Hannibal' producer likens KSL to Russia|url=https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=57593213&itype=cmsid|first=Scott D.|last=Pierce|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune|publisher=MediaNews Group|date=February 27, 2014|access-date=July 12, 2021}}</ref> KUCW aired the program on Saturday nights (initially following ''Saturday Night Live'', before moving to 11&nbsp;p.m. for the show's second season), while ''Hannibal''{{'}}s regular timeslot was occupied on Channel 5 by the weekly newsmagazine ''KSL In Depth''.<ref name=slt-kslnohannibal>{{cite news|last=Pierce|first=Scott D.|title=KSL yanks violent "Hannibal" off its schedule|url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogstv/56236258-63/hannibal-ksl-violent-nbc.html.csp|access-date=April 30, 2013|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune|date=April 29, 2013}}</ref><ref name=ksl-nohannibal>{{cite news|last=Ivins|first=Jessica|title=KSL no longer airing NBC's 'Hannibal'|url=http://www.ksl.com/?sid=24990330&nid=1205&s_cid=rss-extlink|access-date=April 30, 2013|newspaper=KSL.com|date=April 29, 2013}}</ref> ''Hannibal'' was cancelled after its last episode in August 2015, and the station cleared NBC's entire seasonal prime time schedule for the first time in the 2015–16 season. 

On September 4, 2013, KSL announced it was moving ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' out of daytime to 1:05&nbsp;a.m., leading out of the network's late-night talk lineup, effective September 9; a local lifestyle program replaced ''Days'' in its former 2&nbsp;p.m. slot (one of the alternate timeslots that NBC assigned for affiliates to air the soap opera). Other than the plausible outcome that locally originated programming in the daytime hour could allow KSL to attain much more ad revenue with a local program, no reason for the move was explicitly stated, with a common theory floated for the move being a storyline involving openly gay characters [[Will Horton]] and [[Sonny Kiriakis]] (who later became the first gay couple to be legally married in-canon on a network soap opera), citing historical opposition within the LDS Church to same-sex relationships. It also gave the show a steady DVR-friendly timeslot, where its preemption by [[breaking news]] in an overnight timeslot was much rarer than it would be in the afternoon, reducing overall station complaints. The latter reason is much more likely, as KSL continued to air ''Days'' in late night until the series moved exclusively to the [[Peacock (streaming service)|Peacock]] streaming service (owned by NBC parent [[Comcast]]) in September 2022, even with the subsequent "[[killing off]]" and "resurrection" of Will in the series, and Sonny and Will's summer 2020 departure from the show.<ref name=slt-ksl-gay-daytime-channel>{{cite web|title=KSL won't be airing 'Days of Our Lives' during day |url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment2/56819585-223/ksl-gay-daytime-channel.html.csp |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |access-date=September 6, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907015132/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment2/56819585-223/ksl-gay-daytime-channel.html.csp |archive-date= September 7, 2013 }}</ref> The NBC News Now-produced afternoon newscast ''[[NBC News Daily]]''—which replaced ''Days'' on NBC's schedule upon the soap's shift to Peacock—was not carried by KSL during the 2022–23 season, due to existing timeslot commitments to air ''[[Dr. Phil (talk show)|Dr. Phil]]'' and ''[[Rachael Ray (talk show)|Rachael Ray]]''; it began clearing the program (airing at 1&nbsp;p.m. weekdays) in September 2023, after the two syndicated talk shows ended their runs.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/nbc-news-daily-is-an-example-of-how-you-would-want-a-network-and-affiliate-relationship-to-be-working-frankly-says-station-exec-tanya-vea|title='NBC News Daily' Is 'An Example of How You Would Want a Network and Affiliate Relationship to be Working, Frankly,' Says Station Exec Tanya Vea|last=Lafayette|first=Jon|date=November 28, 2023|work=[[Broadcasting & Cable]]|access-date=November 29, 2023}}</ref> (KSL began airing the network's overnight rebroadcast of NBC News Now's ''Top Story with [[Tom Llamas]]'' the season before in the timeslot vacated by ''Days''.)

Even with its tradition of screening possibly objectionable programs, some, such as ''[[The Book of Daniel (TV series)|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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.deseret.com/2006/1/7/19931643/ksl-tv-airs-the-book-of-daniel/|title=KSL-TV airs 'The Book of Daniel'|newspaper=[[Deseret News]]|publisher=[[Deseret Digital Media]]|location=[[Salt Lake City]]|date=January 7, 2006|access-date=August 26, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-20-bush-ad_x.htm|title=TV station refuses to air anti-war ad days before Bush visit|newspaper=[[USA Today]]|location=[[Tysons Corner, Virginia]]|date=August 21, 2005|access-date=August 26, 2012}}</ref>

===Sports programming===
Owing to [[Olympics on NBC|NBC]]'s longstanding contract with the [[International Olympic Committee]] (IOC), KSL-TV was the local broadcaster of the 2002 Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City. As host city, NBC excluded KSL from its long-time mandate that its Olympics telecasts be [[tape delayed]] on the West Coast (a policy that applied for all other stations, even though the Games were being held in a time zone only an hour ahead of [[Pacific Time]]).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sandomir |first=Richard |date=February 12, 2002 |title=OLYMPICS: TELEVISION; NBC's Olympic Coverage Is Shown 'Live' on Tape |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/12/sports/olympics-television-nbc-s-olympic-coverage-is-shown-live-on-tape.html |access-date=August 20, 2021 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=April 6, 2001 |title=TV briefs |url=https://www.deseret.com/2001/4/6/19579164/tv-briefs |access-date=August 20, 2021 |work=Deseret News |language=en}}</ref>

The station also aired [[Utah Jazz]] games selected for national broadcast, first through [[NBA on CBS|CBS Sports]] from the team's move to Salt Lake City in [[1979–80 Utah Jazz season|1979]] until [[1989–90 Utah Jazz season|1990]], then [[NBA on NBC|NBC Sports]] from [[1995–96 Utah Jazz season|1995]] to [[2001–02 Utah Jazz season|2002]], and again from [[2025–26 Utah Jazz season|2025]] onward. The NBC years saw two Jazz appearances in the [[NBA Finals]] ([[1997 NBA Finals|1997]] and [[1998 NBA Finals|1998]]), both ending in losses to [[Michael Jordan]] and the [[Chicago Bulls]].

===News operation===
[[File:Gardner execution protest Utah news media.jpg|216px|thumb|right|KSL [[Electronic news gathering|ENG]] SUV at the Utah State Capitol.]]
KSL-TV presently broadcasts {{frac|30|1|2}} hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with {{frac|5|1|2}} hours each weekday and {{frac|1|1|2}} hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). Despite its roots in the ''Deseret News'' and its link to KSL radio, channel 5 was initially an also-ran in news. That changed in 1965, when the station poached sportscaster [[Paul James (sportscaster)|Paul James]] (better known as the voice of [[BYU]] [[BYU Cougars football|football]] and [[BYU Cougars men's basketball|basketball]]) and weatherman Bob Welti from KCPX-TV and teamed them with anchor [[Dick Nourse]]. Within a few months, channel 5 had rocketed into first place. It would be the dominant news station in Utah for most of the next 45 years, garnering some of the highest ratings in the country. Nourse, James and Welti would remain together until 1991, with Nourse staying on as top anchorman until 2007. In 2008, KSL-TV became the second television station in the Salt Lake City market (after KUTV, which converted in April of that year) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in [[high-definition television|high definition]]. For a long time, the station's newscasts were branded as ''Eyewitness News''; the name was scrapped in 2009 in favor of ''KSL 5 News'', and is now known simply as ''KSL News''.

In November 2010, KUTV, long a distant runner-up, unseated KSL-TV in most timeslots, though channel 5 remained ahead at 10 p.m. However, in February 2011, KSL-TV lost the lead at 10 p.m. for the first time in almost half a century. In December 2011, KSL-TV restored its lead in every time slot in the Nielsen ratings except one—the early morning news slot on weekdays (in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic), where the station finished in third place.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=18595144|title=KSL TV dominates 'core demos' in November|work=ksl.com|publisher=[[Deseret Digital Media]]|location=[[Salt Lake City]]|date=December 21, 2011|access-date=April 5, 2013}}</ref> Since then, however, KSL-TV has dropped back to a distant runner-up behind KUTV in most time slots. According to media observers, channel 5's ratings slumped after Mark Willes became president of [[Deseret Management Corporation]], the for-profit arm of the LDS Church and Bonneville's parent company, and abandoned the station's longtime focus on hard news in favor of "values-based" reporting. Willes was fired in 2012, but the station's ratings have yet to recover.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/55853177-79/ksl-news-kutv-willes.html.csp|title=Utah TV viewers continue to abandon KSL Ch. 5|newspaper=[[Salt Lake Tribune]]|location=[[Salt Lake City]]|date=March 3, 2013|access-date=May 8, 2013}}</ref>

It has used the slogan "(The) News Specialists" in some variation or form since at least the 1980s, while still affiliated with CBS.

====Notable former on-air staff====
* [[Craig Bolerjack]] – sports anchor
* [[Jane Clayson]] – weekend anchor
* [[Paul James (sportscaster)|Paul James]] – sports anchor (1965–1991)
* [[Whit Johnson]] – weekday anchor and reporter
* [[Bruce Lindsay (broadcaster)|Bruce Lindsay]] – weeknight 5, 6 and 10 p.m. anchor
* [[Dave McCann (sportscaster)|Dave McCann]] – anchor
* [[Jim Nantz]] – sports anchor<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbssports.com/cbssports/team/jnantz|title=Jim Nantz bio|publisher=[[CBSSports.com]]|access-date=March 13, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Dick Nourse]] – weeknight 10 p.m. anchor (part of Nourse/Welti/James team)

==Technical information==

===Subchannels===
The station's signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KSL-TV<ref name=rabbitears>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KSL#station |title=RabbitEars TV Query for KSL|website=[[RabbitEars.info]]|accessdate=January 5, 2025}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 5.1 
| rowspan=3|[[1080i]] || rowspan=3 | [[16:9]] || KSL-DT || [[NBC]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 5.2 
| rowspan=2|COZI-TV || rowspan=2|[[Cozi TV]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://twitter.com/kslcom/status/417345170380570624|title=KSL.com|work=Twitter|location=[[Salt Lake City]]|date=December 29, 2013|access-date=January 1, 2014}}</ref>
|-
! scope = "row" | 5.3 
|}

On [[New Year's Day|January 1]], 2009, KSL ended its affiliation with [[NBC Weather Plus]] on its 5.3 subchannel due to the service's discontinuation by NBC, and relaunched the subchannel as a locally compiled automated weather channel, the ''Live 5 Weather Channel'', which was one of the first local digital weather subchannels in the country to be presented in [[480i]] [[widescreen]]. KSL-TV also carried [[Universal Sports]] on its 5.2 subchannel until it began to be exclusively distributed through cable and satellite television in January 2012; it was replaced by Live Well Network thereafter.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/live-well-adds-salt-lake-city-boston-market-43218|title=Live Well Adds Salt Lake City, Boston Market|work=Broadcasting & Cable|location=[[New York City]]|date=December 13, 2011|access-date=April 5, 2013}}</ref> On January 1, 2014, KSL replaced Live Well Network with [[Cozi TV]] on digital subchannel 5.2.

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KSL-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, over [[VHF]] channel 5, on June 12, 2009, as part of the [[Digital television transition in the United States|federally mandated transition from analog to digital television]].<ref name="Analog to Digital">[http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf List of Digital Full-Power Stations] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition [[UHF]] channel 38,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=11665656&itype=NGPSID&keyword=&qtype=|title=KUCW changes digital deadline|newspaper=[[The Salt Lake Tribune]]|last=Horiuchi|first=Vince|location=[[Salt Lake City]]|date=February 9, 2009|access-date=April 5, 2013}}</ref> using [[virtual channel]] 5. As part of the [[SAFER Act]], KSL-TV kept its analog signal on the air until June 26 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of [[public service announcement]]s from the [[National Association of Broadcasters]].<ref name="FCC Nightlight">{{cite web|url=https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-291375A1.pdf|title=UPDATED List of Participants in the Analog Nightlight Program|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|date=June 12, 2009|access-date=June 14, 2024}}</ref>

Effective September 17, 2018, the station moved its digital signal from channel 38 to channel 23, as part of the broadcast spectrum repacking.

===Translators===
KSL-TV is rebroadcast on these following translators:<ref name=rabbitears/>
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* [[Cedar City, Utah|Cedar Canyon]]: K03IW-D
* [[Long Valley Junction, Utah|Long Valley Junction]]: K04RU-D
* [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]]: K05AR-D
* [[Toquerville]]: K07CG-D
* [[Enterprise, Utah|Enterprise]]: K07ED-D
* [[Virgin, Utah|Virgin]]: K08BO-D
* [[Pine Valley, Washington County, Utah|Pine Valley]], etc.: K08EN-D
* [[Helper, Utah|Helper]]: K08QG-D
* [[Sigurd, Utah|Sigurd]]−[[Salina, Utah|Salina]]: K09ZP-D
* [[Marysvale]]: K09ZQ-D
* [[Woodland, Utah|Woodland]]−[[Kamas, Utah|Kamas]]: K09ZR-D
* East [[Price, Utah|Price]]: K09ZU-D
* [[Roosevelt, Utah|Roosevelt]], etc.: K09ZW-D
* [[Big Piney, Wyoming|Big Piney, etc., WY]]: K10HO-D
* Rural [[Juab County]]: K10RG-D
* [[Blanding, Utah|Blanding]]−[[Monticello, Utah|Monticello]]: K10RK-D
* [[Ruth, Nevada|Ruth]]: K11ED-D
* [[Ely, Nevada|Ely]]−[[McGill, NV]]: K11EE-D
* [[Hildale]], etc.: K11QQ-D
* [[Lund, Nevada|Lund]]−[[Preston, Nevada|Preston, NV]]: K12DE-D
* [[Laketown, Utah|Laketown]], etc.: K12MI-D
* [[Cedar City]]: K13CP-D
* [[Mink Creek, Idaho|Mink Creek, ID]]: K13HA-D
* [[Beowawe, NV]]: K14NU-D
* [[Circleville, Utah|Circle]]: K14RG-D
* [[Mexican Hat, Utah|Mexican Hat]]: K15JV-D
* Rural [[Sevier County, Utah|Sevier County]]: K16MC-D
* [[Teasdale, Utah|Teasdale]]−[[Torrey, Utah|Torrey]]: K16MD-D
* [[Richfield, Utah|Richfield]], etc.: K16ME-D
* [[Koosharem]]: K16MF-D
* [[Panguitch]]: K16MG-D
* [[Montezuma Creek, Utah|Montezuma Creek]]−[[Aneth]]: K16MQ-D
* [[Henrieville]]: K16MH-D
* [[Nephi, Utah|Nephi]]: K16MI-D
* [[Price, Utah|Price]]: K16NA-D
* [[Fruitland, Utah|Fruitland]]: K16NC-D
* [[Green River, Utah|Green River]]: K17HW-D
* [[Navajo Mountain, Utah|Navajo Mountain]] [[Navajo Mountain High School|School]]: K17IE-D
* [[Oljeto, Utah|Oljeto]]: K17IF-D
* [[Mexican Hat, Utah|Mexican Hat]], etc.: K17JH-D
* [[Garfield, Utah|Garfield]], etc.: K17MT-D
* [[Cedar City]]: K17NK-D
* [[Orangeville, Utah|Orangeville]]: K17NQ-D
* [[Mayfield, Utah|Mayfield]]: K18IU-D
* [[Montpelier, ID]]: K19DQ-D
* [[Hatch, Utah|Hatch]]: K19GJ-D
* [[Overton, NV]]: K19ME-D
* [[Bloomington, Utah|Bloomington]]: K20GJ-D
* [[Wendover, Utah|Wendover]]: K20LF-D
* [[Logan, Utah|Logan]]: K20NC-D
* [[Malad City, Idaho|Malad]]: K20OF-D
* [[Myton, Utah|Myton]]: K21FT-D
* [[Mount Pleasant, Utah|Mount Pleasant]]: K21IC-D
* [[Scipio, Utah|Scipio]]−[[Holden, Utah|Holden]]: K21NN-D
* [[Leamington, Utah|Leamington]]: K21NO-D
* [[Big Piney, WY]]: K22IY-D
* [[Eureka, NV]]: K22NG-D
* [[Preston, ID]]: K23GR-D
* [[Huntsville, Utah|Huntsville]], etc.: K23IC-D
* Rural [[Beaver County, Utah|Beaver County]]: K23KO-D
* [[Summit County, Utah|Summit County]]: K23NV-D
* [[Kanarraville]]: K23OA-D
* [[Beaver, Utah|Beaver]], etc.: K24FE-D
* [[Orderville]]: K24LX-D
* [[Manti, Utah|Manti]], etc.: K26IH-D
* [[Duckwater, NV]]: K26JY-D
* [[Fillmore, Utah|Fillmore]], etc.: K26OB-D
* [[Heber, Utah|Heber]]−[[Midway, Utah|Midway]]: K27GC-D
* [[Park City, Utah|Park City]]: K27GD-D
* [[Kanab]]: K27JV-D
* [[Loa, Utah|Loa]], etc.: K28OL-D
* [[Beryl, Utah|Beryl]]−[[Modena, Utah|Modena]], etc.: K29FA-D
* [[Alton, Utah|Alton]]: K29JA-D
* [[Ely, NV]]: K30CN-D
* [[Hanksville]]: K30OP-D
* [[Fish Lake (Utah)|Fishlake Resort]]: K30OW-D
* [[Fillmore, Utah|Fillmore]], etc.: K30PF-D
* [[Vernal, Utah|Vernal]], etc.: K31JL-D
* [[Morgan, Utah|Morgan]], etc.: K32HK-D
* [[Duchesne, Utah|Duchesne]]: K32HX-D
* [[Manila, Utah|Manila]], etc.: K32IA-D
* [[Cortez, CO]]: K32IJ-D
* [[Scofield, Utah|Scofield]]: K32IZ-D
* [[Escalante, Utah|Escalante]]: K32MR-D
* [[Spring Glen, Utah|Spring Glen]]: K32NF-D
* [[Boulder, Utah|Boulder]]: K33IZ-D
* [[Garfield, Utah|Garfield]], etc.: K33OJ-D
* [[Caineville]]: K33OM-D
* [[Samak, Utah|Samak]]: K33OX-D
* [[Beaver, Utah|Beaver]], etc.: K33PF-D
* [[Garrison, Utah|Garrison]], etc.: K33PH-D
* [[Clear Creek, Utah|Clear Creek]]: K33PO-D
* [[Hanna, Utah|Hanna]], etc.: K34IW-D
* [[Fountain Green, Utah|Fountain Green]]: K34KQ-D
* [[Capitol Reef National Park]]: K34OA-D
* [[Antimony, Utah|Antimony]]: K34OC-D
* [[Tropic, Utah|Tropic]], etc.: K34OD-D
* [[Wanship]]: K34OL-D
* [[Henefer]], etc.: K34OM-D
* [[Delta, Utah|Delta]], etc.: K34OX-D
* [[Emery, Utah|Emery]]: K34PB-D
* [[Green River, Utah|Green River]]: K34PC-D
* [[Ferron, Utah|Ferron]]: K34PH-D
* [[Huntington, Utah|Huntington]]: K34PI-D
* [[Santa Clara, Utah|Santa Clara]], etc.: K35FS-D
* [[Soda Springs, ID]]: K35HD-D
* [[Peoa]]−[[Oakley, Utah|Oakley]]: K35IS-D
* [[Parowan]]−[[Enoch, Utah|Enoch]], etc.: K36AI-D
* [[Randolph, Utah|Randolph]]: K36FS-D
* [[Coalville, Utah|Coalville]]: K36OT-D}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|ksltv.com}}
*[http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/2468 G. Donald Gale collection of KSL editorials, MSS 8013] at [https://sites.lib.byu.edu/sc/ L. Tom Perry Special Collections], [[Brigham Young University]]. Contains copies of televised video editorials from 1978 to 1997.

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