KUCW

KUCW

Ogden–Salt Lake City, Utah United States
City	Ogden, Utah
Channels	Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 30
Branding	Utah's CW 30
Programming
Affiliations	30.1: The CW for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Media Inc.)
Sister stations	KTVX
History
Founded	May 24, 1983
First air date	October 19, 1985 (38 years ago) (1985-10-19)
Former call signs	KOOG-TV (1983–1998) KUPX (1998) KUWB (1998–2006)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 30 (UHF, 1985–2009) Digital: 48 (UHF, 2002–2018)
Former affiliations	Independent (1985–1995) HSN (secondary, 1986–1996) The WB (1995–2006)
Call sign meaning	"Utah's CW"
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	1136
ERP	432 kW
HAAT	1,259.3 m (4,132 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	40°39′33″N 112°12′10″W / 40.65917°N 112.20278°W / 40.65917; -112.20278
Translator(s)	see § Translators
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.abc4.com/cw30

KUCW (channel 30) is a television station licensed to Ogden, Utah, United States, broadcasting the CW network to Salt Lake City and the state of Utah. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside ABC affiliate KTVX (channel 4). The two stations share studios on West 1700 South in Salt Lake City; KUCW's main transmitter is located atop Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, extended by dozens of translators that carry its signal throughout Utah and portions of Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming.

Channel 30 from Ogden came on air in October 1985 as KOOG-TV an independent station owned by American Communications and Television. It struggled for its first decade-plus on the air with technical issues, some of which resulted from the transmitter being blocked from the Salt Lake Valley by terrain, and poor finances. The station curtailed its general-entertainment broadcasting and spent most of its day broadcasting the Home Shopping Network, which paid KOOG-TV for airtime. The original ownership was sold to Trivest Financial Services in 1991, laid off most employees in 1992, and sold the station in 1994 to Alpha and Omega Communications, a subsidiary of the Salt Lake City–based Miracle Rock Church.

KOOG-TV became Utah's affiliate of The WB upon the network's launch in January 1995. Alpha and Omega agreed to sell the station to Paxson Communications Corporation in 1996; as Paxson programmed infomercials on its stations, this put the future of the WB network in Utah in doubt. The issue was resolved when Roberts Broadcasting and ACME Communications reached a deal to swap the construction permit for channel 16 to Paxson in exchange for operating channel 30 as a WB station. In April 1998, the new management took over; the station was renamed KUWB, and it relocated its studios and offices to Murray.

Clear Channel Communications, which at the time owned KTVX, purchased KUWB in 2006 and combined their operations. That year, The WB and UPN merged to form The CW, and KUWB became KUCW to reflect its new network affiliation. Channel 30 has been co-owned with KTVX ever since through several sales and under Nexstar ownership since 2012. It airs 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. local newscasts from the KTVX newsroom.