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KMYU, virtual channel 12 (UHF digital channel 9), is a primary MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station located in St. George, Utah, United States. The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with Salt Lake City-based CBS affiliate KUTV (channel 2). The two stations share studio facilities located on South Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City, and its transmitter is located at Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City. As the broadcasting radius of KMYU's digital signal does not reach Salt Lake City due to its transmitter being located in the southern portion of the state, the station is simulcast over KUTV's second digital subchannel in order to reach that portion of the market. This signal can be seen on UHF channel 34.2 (or virtual channel 2.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter located at Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Business Services - Advertising & Marketing - KUSG in St. George, UT - StGeorge.biz )〕 similarly, because of the location of KUTV's transmitter, KMYU relays that station's signal on its second digital subchannel. ==History== The original construction permit for channel 12 was granted on May 23, 1988, and the station was assigned the call letters KUSG on September 11, 1989, however a license was not granted by the Federal Communications Commission until January 24, 2000. When KUSG first signed on the air on August 21, 1999, it was operated as a satellite station of KUTV, at that time a CBS owned-and-operated station. CBS sold KUTV and KUSG (along with five other smaller-market stations) to Four Points Media Group, a broadcast holding company operated by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, on January 10, 2008 (in a deal first announced on February 7, 2007). On March 17, 2008, KUSG became a separately programmed station from KUTV, operating as a Retro Television Network affiliate; the station estimated this switch left a small number of viewers without KUTV programming.〔 〕 Initially, KUSG's RTN programming was relayed on KUBX-LP (channel 58) and KCBU (channel 3), both owned by original RTN owner Equity Media Holdings, which brought the station's programming into Salt Lake City. However, on January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity and Luken Communications (which had acquired RTN in June 2008) interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates.〔(What’s Wrong with MyTV? )〕 As a result, Luken moved RTN operations to its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and dropped all Equity-owned affiliates, including KUBX and KCBU, immediately.〔(TV Newsday: "Financial Dispute Disrupts RTN Diginet", 1/5/2009. )〕 KUBX and KCBU were later sold to the Daystar Television Network; KUBX is currently silent while KCBU never completed its digital transition and went off the air for good. KUSG itself was not affected (aside from the aforementioned interruption in network programming), as it is not an Equity station, but its satellite and Salt Lake City-area Comcast coverage was lost, as they received the station's programming via KUBX/KCBU.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interruption in Utah’s RTN Program Schedule )〕 By June 2009, KUSG had dropped RTN (which rebranded to RTV that month) for This TV;〔 RTV has since moved to KCSG (channel 14). The station again changed affiliations on September 20, 2010, adding programming from MyNetworkTV.〔 KUSG retained This TV programming as a secondary affiliation. This switch briefly made it one of two MyNetworkTV affiliates serving the geographically large Utah media market, along with KCSG. The call letters were changed to KMYU on November 16, 2010.〔 In September and early October 2011, the station aired NBC's new period drama ''The Playboy Club'' in lieu of KSL-TV (channel 5), which refused to air it due to management concerns about content and the program's promotion of ''Playboy'' magazine. The program aired at NBC's original Monday night 9 p.m. (MT) timeslot for the series on KMYU. Like ''Coupling'' in 2003 however, which KSL also declined to air and aired on the then-KUWB (channel 30, now KUCW), it only aired three episodes before the network made it the first canceled new series of the new television season. On September 8, 2011, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced its intent to purchase Four Points from Cerberus Capital Management for $200 million; Sinclair began managing the stations, including KMYU, under local marketing agreements following antitrust approval.〔(Sinclair Buys Four Points Media For $200M ), ''TVNewsCheck'', September 8, 2011.〕 The deal was completed on January 3, 2012. On January 1, 2015, This programming moved over to KSL-TV's third subchannel, with Sinclair replacing the hours programmed by This TV with traditional syndicated programming, resembling most of Sinclair's other MyNetworkTV affiliates. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KMYU」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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