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The Dolores Doré Eccles Broadcast Center (often shortened to Eccles Broadcast Center) is headquarters of three broadcast stations and a statewide educational consortium. The center houses KUED, KUER, KUEN and the Utah Education Network.[1] The facility is northeast of the Jon M. Huntsman Center and southwest of the Huntsman Cancer Institute on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City.[2]
The facility started in 1993 with a $5.5 million gift from the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation and included 59,191 square feet (5,499.0 m2).[3] An expansion, completed in 2001, added 40,307 square feet (3,744.6 m2). The original structure cost $8.8 million. The cost of the expansion was $7.6 million according to an Open House brochure published December 7, 2001. Architect Dick Huss, AIA of Babcock Design Group planned the original structure and the addition. Okland Construction Company served as general contractor.[citation needed]
