KUED (channel 7), branded PBS Utah, is a PBS member television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It is owned by the University of Utah alongside public radio stations KUER-FM (90.1 MHz) and KUUB (88.3 FM). The three outlets share studios at the Eccles Broadcast Center on the university's campus on South Wasatch Drive in the northeastern section of Salt Lake City; KUED's transmitter is located on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City. KUED has a large network of broadcast translators that extend its over-the-air coverage throughout Utah.
Prior to July 2018, KUED was one of two PBS member stations serving Utah, the other being Provo-licensed KBYU-TV (channel 11), owned by Brigham Young University. In October 2017, it was announced that KBYU would drop PBS programming on June 30, 2018, in favor of its own BYUtv service, leaving KUED as the sole PBS station for the state.[2]
History
The station first signed on the air on January 20, 1958, with an episode of The Friendly Giant. The station originally broadcast from improvised studios set up in the basement of the old student union building on the University of Utah campus. The station had humble beginnings with no props, primitive equipment, and a donated transmitter, courtesy of