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Branding | Telemundo Utah |
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Founded | December 8, 1997 |
First air date | March 31, 2001 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 20 (UHF, 2001–2009) |
Call sign meaning | "The Mountain West" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 10177 |
ERP | 55.3 kW |
HAAT | 1,171 m (3,842 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°39′12″N 112°12′9″W / 40.65333°N 112.20250°W |
Translator(s) | see § Translators |
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Website | www |
KTMW (channel 20) is a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Telemundo network to the state of Utah. Owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group, the station maintains studios are located on South Redwood Road in the northwestern section of Salt Lake City, and its transmitter is located on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City.
KTMW's programming is relayed on three low-power digital translators: Class A stations KULX-CD (UHF channel 14) in Ogden and KEJT-CD (UHF channel 21) in Salt Lake City, and KULU-LD (UHF channel 16) in Park City.
The channel 20 allocation in Salt Lake City was originally occupied by KSTU (an independent station at the time, now a Fox affiliate) from 1978 to 1987. As part of a deal that was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the KSTU intellectual unit moved to channel 13 in 1987 and currently operates under a separate license. The old channel 20 license was deleted; KTMW's license dates back to its filing on December 8, 1997. Alpha & Omega Broadcasting, former owners of KOOG (channel 30), was granted the license in 1998. KTMW signed on March 31, 2001, with a religious format. The station would run shows like The 700 Club, Joyce Meyer, James Robison, and others; the original meaning of the calls stood for "The Master's Way". It eventually affiliated with FamilyNet and ran its classic TV shows for about a third of the day.
On April 1, 2015, Alpha & Omega Communications filed an application to sell KTMW to Serestar Communications.[2] It was approved by the FCC on August 13, 2015. The sale was completed on August 31, 2015.[3]
On July 30, 2015, Airwaves, Inc. filed an application to sell KULX-CD and KULU-CD to Serestar, who immediately took over the station's operations through a time brokerage agreement (TBA).[4] The sale was completed on October 7, 2015.[5] Later that month, KTMW switched to Telemundo, simulcasting low-power sister station KULX-CD.
Serestar agreed to sell KTMW, KULX-CD, and KULU-CD to NBCUniversal on November 28, 2018, as part of a $21 million deal;[6] that transaction closed on March 5, 2019.[7] NBCUniversal already owned the KEJT-CD license, with Serestar operating it under a TBA that was terminated concurrent with the sale.[8]
KEJT-CD was the second property in Utah to be owned by NBC as it previously owned KUTV (channel 2, now a CBS affiliate) until 1995 when it was sold to CBS alongside then-sister station KCNC-TV in Denver. KUTV is currently owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group as of 2021.
When it was owned by Alpha & Omega Communications, KTMW's original programming had included:[9]
The station's signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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20.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KTMW | Telemundo |
20.2 | 480i | Xitos | TeleXitos | |
20.3 | TheGrio | TheGrio | ||
20.4 | 4:3 | LX | NBC LX Home | |
20.5 | 16:9 | Oxygen | Oxygen |
Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997,[23] the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. KTMW shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 20, on June 12, 2009,[24] and "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 20. KTMW used NVerzion Automation to complete the flash cut.[25]
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