Talk:KUTV

Merge notice

It's not standard practice on Wikipedia for a television station's list of transmitters to be a separate article from the one on the television station itself. Is there a specific reason it should be allowed to stand in this case? Bearcat 10:44, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Personality Merge

Given how large that article already is, I am against merging it to the main article. It keeps things organized. --milonica (talk) 22:08, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

I agree with Milonica. CKStark (talk)

As an explanation of the history, the merge tag was removed in June 2010. It was added again to the list article in October 2011. In September 2014 the list was reduced to 6 notable people (i.e. have their own article). I have merged that list into this article today. It should be kept to only listing notable people who have (or should have) their own article. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 08:02, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

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Oakland Raiders Announcers?

Why is this tagged with the 'Oakland Raiders Announcers' category? I don't see anything in the article that backs that up, and it doesn't seem to make sense to me.

But, perhaps I'm missing something. Anybody know? DaRkAgE7_[Talk] 07:38, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

GA review

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This review is transcluded from Talk:KUTV/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 17:24, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: ZKang123 (talk · contribs) 01:05, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Will take a look at this.--ZKang123 (talk · contribs) 01:05, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Prose

Lead:

• briefly swooned a bit unencyclopedic

History:

• KUTA radio moved its headquarters to 179 Motor Avenue, which would also be used as the studio for channel 2, given the call sign KUTV – "given the call sign KUTV" I guess refers to channel 2. A bit of a run-on sentence here
• This puzzled some A bit of WP:WESEAL. The source mentioned that people in the television industry were rather puzzled with the decision
• In 1978, an error and a shortage of tape machines meant that viewers of KTVB in Boise, Idaho, inadvertently received a censored version of part of the three-part TV movie Loose Change that KUTV had edited for air in the Salt Lake City market. Sentence a bit too long here
• general manager Jeffrey Hatch noted that the television industry was suffering during this period from the cancellation of advertising for news coverage during the Gulf War and a downturn in the national economy. Could be a separate sentence and would suggest even splitting this up.
• New York–based I thought a hyphen would be used here. I'm not particular as long as it's consistent. But there's also "VS&A-owned"
• KUTV came on the market at an opportune time. Is this phrase supported in the source?
• One NBC program remained on KUTV's schedule Is it specified? Also it's not SportsBeat Saturday right
• KUTV continued to air the program[49] through January 1996, when it was discontinued. – KUTV continued to air the program[49] until it was discontinued on January 1996.
  • Reworded to be clearer. If you don't know that Saturday Night Live is an NBC staple, I can see how you'd stumble here.
• Personally find it odd that the "Further information: Attempted acquisition of Tribune Media by Sinclair Broadcast Group" is in the body; would shift it up to just below the subheader "Four Points and Sinclair ownership"
  • I've moved it there, though it really applies to that one specific paragraph.
• The merger was terminated on August 9, 2018, by Tribune Media, nullifying both transactions;[70] this followed a public rejection of the deal by FCC chairman Ajit Pai and vote by the commission to designate it for hearing by an administrative law judge, which was seen as a death knell for the proposed transaction. Suggest splitting this

News operation:

• The move came at a time when – "at a time" is a bit redundant
• when the financial reverses the Hatches were experiencing led to low morale and low pay at KUTV A bit of a complex sentence here
• Through this period, KUTV continued to be a solid number-two in late news to KSL,[98] whose newscasts were among the highest-rated in major markets;[99] the challenge from KTVX faded as that station underwent newsroom and ownership turnover. same here
• On June 7, 2009, the station abruptly canceled its weekend morning newscasts; this was followed the next day by the cancellation of the newscast that the station produced for WTVX; as with many newscast cuts at that time, it was likely due to the Great Recession, while WTVX's newscast was stunted by low ratings. Long sentence and missing citation
  • Removed because I could not find a citation to match this. Not sure who added it or if it's a sentence I left behind. Oops!
• There is more than one linking to Great Recession
  • The above removal fixes this.

Will do a source check.--ZKang123 (talk · contribs) 03:17, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

@ZKang123: Did more sentence splits and other changes. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 17:46, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Source

• Per this revision
• Optional, but you might add subscriber access parameters to newspaper.com links in the future (apparently there's a limit of five per device). Would also recommend adding archived links, but that's also optional.
  • A bit of a note from me on these issues. Newspapers.com has made changes in the last year. Their pages are excluded from IA now (likely in line with many US newspapers which have done the same thing to avoid unauthorized AI scraping), and the 5-clipping limit was introduced. It's disappointing to see this, but Newspapers.com was likely goaded into acting because some of the publishers they work with and license content with are doing the same to their own websites. I think KUTV was done before they stopped permitting archival so the pages are archived (and I ran IABot on the page just now).
• Refs 1, 10, 20, 30, 38, 47, 57, 68, 77, 90, 100, 110, 119, 120 check out
• Add retrieved date for Ref 57
  • This was added when IABot ran.
• Ref 73 - Attribute quotes more directly to KUTV News Director Mike Youngren
  • Done.
• Ref 78 - Is a PhD thesis reliable in this context? (WP:THESIS)
  • Generally, I'd say so — usually the cutoff is dissertations (including this one) are. I've only ever used a master's thesis once (and then because it cited an interview with someone who worked at the TV station in question). This one was pretty in-depth on the news competition between Salt Lake TV stations and used a lot of surveys and other material.

Putting on hold.--ZKang123 (talk · contribs) 10:17, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• @ZKang123: Done. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 20:48, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

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