, '''''"Channel 5"''''' is the
NBC affiliate in
Salt Lake City, Utah ,
USA , on channel 5. It is owned by
Bonneville International Corporation , which is in turn owned by
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints .
KSL-TV began its life on
June 1 ,
1949 as an offshoot of
KSL-AM 1160 . It originally broadcast from the radio station's cramped studio facility on Social Hall Avenue in
Downtown Salt Lake City , until 1984, when KSL Broadcast House was moved to 5
Triad Center . Originally a
CBS affiliate, it also broadcast
DuMont programming and shared
ABC programming with KDYL-TV (now
KTVX ) until
KUTV signed on in
1954 .
In
1996 , NBC purchased KUTV with the intent to sell it to CBS as part of a swap involving stations in
Denver ,
Miami and
Philadelphia . NBC then secured an affiliation agreement with KSL.
KSL-TV experienced a scare in
1999 when a shooter entered the Triad Center, allegedy looking for a KSL-TV reporter. An employee of another company in the building was shot during the incident, resulting in her later death.
De-Kieu Duy , a 24-year-old female, was arrested in connection with the incident. She has been declared incompetent to stand trial due to mental illness, and is currently awaiting trial while committed at Utah State Hospital.
In
2002 , Bruce Christensen was named the President of KSL-TV. Christensen is the former president of
PBS , the former dean of
BYU 's College of Fine Arts and Communications, as well as a former reporter for KSL-TV.
KSL-TV airs most NBC programming, except a handful of programs station management deems offensive or otherwise unfit for broadcast, including ''
Saturday Night Live '' (after the former NBC affiliate, KUTV, also passed on it, the local WB affiliate,
KUWB , decided to air it) and the short-lived
Sitcom ''
Coupling '', among others. KSL-TV also interrupts regular programming for the
LDS General Conference . KSL-TV did air NBC's controversial drama, ''
The Book Of Daniel ''. This television program was pre-empted on a few other NBC affiliates due to pressure from religious groups before it was pulled from the network. It also aired a paid political message criticizing the war in
Iraq , which featured
Cindy Sheehan .
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