14 Facts About KTVX

KTVX is a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, affiliated with ABC.

KTVX has a large network of broadcast translators that extend its over-the-air coverage throughout Utah, as well as portions of Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming.

KTVX is the oldest television station located in the Mountain Time Zone and the third oldest station located west of the Mississippi River.

Station adopted its present-day KTVX call letters in October 1975, when United Television—then the broadcasting division of 20th Century Fox—acquired the station.

KTVX nearly lost its ABC affiliation in late 1994 when CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting announced a complex ownership trade with NBC.

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KTVX was the only Chris-Craft owned station to have never been affiliated with UPN during the time that the company owned a partial stake in the network.

WOAI-TV, which has been a sister station to KTVX since United Television acquired both stations in 1975, was one of the Newport stations sold to Sinclair, which resulted in the two stations coming under entirely separate ownership and management for the first time in over 37 years; as a result, WOAI is sister to rival KUTV.

KTVX became the first television station in Utah to broadcast a digital signal and the first to broadcast network programming in high-definition in 2000.

On September 9,2018, KTVX moved its frequency, from digital channel 40 to digital channel 30.

KTVX added a weekday afternoon newscast at 4 p m and began producing a half-hour 9 p m newscast for KUCW.

KUCW's 9 p m newscast ended on December 9,2011 due to low ratings; the move was concurrent with other changes at KTVX, including the expansion of the 4 p m newscast to an hour on January 9,2012.

In early 2008, KTVX carried "TheHive TV" on its second digital subchannel, which featured locally produced programs by Salt Lake City area residents and sports.

On November 1,2018, KTVX replaced a standard definition simulcast of KUCW on digital 4.

KTVX extends its coverage throughout the entire state of Utah plus parts of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming using a network of more than 100 community-owned translators listed below.