KUTF TV Salt Lake City UT

KUTF, virtual and VHF digital channel 12, is a Daystar owned-and-operated television station serving Salt Lake City, Utah, United States that is licensed to Logan. The station is owned by Word of God Fellowship. KUTF's transmitter is located on Cal Mountain near Tremonton. The channel 12 frequency in Logan previously belonged to KUSU-TV, an educational station owned and operated by Utah State University which broadcast from 1964 to 1970, while the call letters KUTF originally belonged to the CW affiliate in Portland/Salem, Oregon, now KRCW-TV. KUTF was 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. Prior to June 2009, KUTF was a Spanish-language television station owned by Equity Media Holdings and affiliated with TeleFutura. KUTF was sold at auction to Daystar 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. With Univision gaining full control of now former sister station KUTH-DT, TeleFutura (now UniMás) programming was later added to KUTH-DT's second digital subchannel. After Daystar took over in 2009, the station finally completed its digital transmission facilities and resumed broadcasting on April 21, 2010 with Daystar programming. KCBU in Price, acquired in the same group deal as KUTF, never completed its digital transition and its license was cancelled on July 6, 2010. As a result, Daystar programming is seen over-the-air only in the northern half of the market.