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Sunday, November 13, 2011

The Return Of Logan's KUTF-DT1, Channel 12.1

KUTF 12, Logan, UT
What is KUTF-DT1 (Channel 12.1), you ask?
Why, it's Logan, UT's only full power TV station, that's not even located in Logan, UT!

(Aren't you glad you asked?)
Quoted from Wikipedia:
KUTF is a Daystar Television Network owned-and-operated station in Logan, Utah that serves the Salt Lake City media market which broadcasts in digital on channel 12. Prior to June 2009, it was a Spanish-language television station owned by Equity Media Holdings and affiliated with TeleFutura. Founded June 9, 2000 and launched on January 1, 2001, the station was at one point simulcast on analog low-power K45GX in Salt Lake City. There are now no longer any Federal Communications Commission records of that repeater.
The channel 12 frequency in Logan previously belonged to KUSU-TV, an educational station owned and operated by Utah State University, which broadcast during the 1960s [1], while the call letters KUTF originally belonged to the CW affiliate in Portland/Salem, Oregon, KRCW-TV.
KUTF was sold at auction to the Daystar Television Network on April 16, 2009, indicating a programming change is planned.[1] On the digital transition date of June 12, the station's analog transmitter went dark.
 So, channel 12 has been silent since June, 2009. It is now broadcasting again as a digital Daystar Network owned and operated station as a single SD 480i channel.
Daystar is a Christian religious network Owned by the Word Of God Fellowship, with over 50 US stations, many international stations, and also broadcasts by satellite. More information about the Daystar network can be found on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daystar_Television_Network .

Now, although KUTF is "located" in Logan, the actual location of the transmitter is Point Lookout Mountains - closer to Tremonton and Riverside. If you are getting your TV from either Franklin (north) or Cache County (south), chance is located at 90 degrees West of where your antenna is pointing, typically a "dead zone" for most antennas. If you REALLY want to watch KUTF, you're going to have to install a rotor for your antenna. A rotor is typically about a $100 expense for a do-it-yourselfer.

So for most of Cache Valley, you won't be seeing "Logan's own" channel 12 unless you really want to see it, or by fate, your antenna is aimed in a direction such that you get some signal from the tower on Point Lookout Mountains.

To sum up, Channel 12 is back, and my sources report that - quote - "Nobody's interested, and nobody cares".

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