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{{short description|Daystar TV station in Logan, Utah}}
{{update|date=November 2010}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = KUTF
| city                   = Logan, Utah
| logo                   =
| branding               = 
| analog                 = 
| digital                = 12 ([[VHF]])
| virtual                = 12 
| translators            = 
| affiliations           = [[Daystar Television Network|Daystar]]
| network                = 
| founded                = 
| airdate                = {{start date and age|2001|1|1|p=y}}
| location               = [[Logan, Utah|Logan]]–[[Salt Lake City]], Utah
| country                = United States
| callsign_meaning       = {{ubl|Utah Telefutura|-or-|Univision Telefutura (former affiliations)}}
| former_callsigns       = {{ubl|KUTH (2001–2004)|KCBU (2004–2005)}}
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:''' 12 (VHF, 2001–2009)
| owner                  = [[Daystar Television Network]]
| licensee               = Word of God Fellowship, Inc.
| sister_stations        = 
| former_affiliations    = {{ubl|[[Univision]] (2001–2004)|[[Independent station|Independent]] (2004–2005)|[[TeleFutura]] (2005–2009)|[[Dark (broadcasting)|Dark]] (2009−2010)}}
| erp                    = 22.3 [[kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|690|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id            = 69694
| coordinates            = {{coord|41|47|2.7|N|112|13|57.8|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority    = [[FCC]]
| website                = {{URL|www.daystar.com}} 
}}
'''KUTF''' (channel 12) is a  [[religious television station]] licensed to [[Logan, Utah]], United States, serving the [[Salt Lake City]] area as an [[owned-and-operated station]] of the [[Daystar Television Network]]. The station's transmitter is located on Cal Mountain near [[Tremonton, Utah]].

==History==
The channel 12 frequency in Logan previously belonged to [[KUSU-TV]], a [[non-commercial educational station]] owned and operated by [[Utah State University]] which broadcast from 1964 to 1970. The KUTF calls were used previously from 1989 until 1992 for what is now [[KRCW-TV]] in [[Salem, Oregon]], which serves the [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] market.

KUTF was founded June 9, 2000, by [[Equity Media Holdings]] and launched on January 1, 2001, as a [[Univision]] affiliate, then shifted to Univision's secondary network, TeleFutura (the current-day [[UniMás]]) in 2005. At one point, it was simulcast in Salt Lake City via [[low-power broadcasting#Television|low-power]] station K45GX in Salt Lake City. Equity co-managed the station with [[Provo, Utah|Provo]]-licensed KCBU (now [[KUTH-DT]], channel 32), which was owned by Univision itself but operated by Equity.

KUTF was part of a lot of stations sold at auction to Daystar on April 16, 2009, along with sister station [[KCBU]] in [[Price, Utah|Price]], which originally operated as a KUTF simulcast but by 2005, took on several English-language networks operated by Equity.<ref name="tvbr-auctiondaystar">{{cite news|url=http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/tv_deals/14101.html |title=Takers found for 60 Equity stations |date=April 18, 2009 |work=Television Business Report |access-date=April 20, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424220318/http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/tv_deals/14101.html |archive-date=April 24, 2009 }}</ref> On the digital transition date of June 12, the station's analog transmitter went [[dark (broadcasting)|dark]]. Univision then purchased KUTH outright, and transitioned TeleFutura in the market to that station's second subchannel.

Daystar completed KUTF's digital facilities before the June 12, 2010, deadline to resume operations, and went on the air with Daystar programming on April 21. Daystar decided to pursue pay-TV coverage across Utah with KUTF rather than bring KCBU back on the air, and that station's license was canceled on July 6 of the same year.

==Technical information==
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|+Subchannel of KUTF<ref>{{Cite web |title=Digital TV Market Listing for KUTF |url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=69694 |access-date=December 30, 2022 |website=[[RabbitEars.info]]}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 12.1 
| [[480i]] || [[4:3]] || || [[Daystar Television Network|Daystar]]
|}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
Because it was granted an original [[construction permit]] after the [[FCC]] finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.transmitter.com/FCC97115/chanplan.html|title = Final DTV Channel Plan from FCC97-115}}</ref> the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital [[television station]]. Instead, at the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KUTF turned off its [[analog signal]] on June 12, 2009, and resumed broadcasting on the same channel with a [[Digital signal (broadcasting)|digital signal]] (called a "[[flash-cut]]"), though it stayed dark until April 21, 2010, when Daystar activated its digital channel.

==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.daystar.com/ Official website]

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