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| City | Ogden, Utah |
| Channels | |
| Branding | UEN-TV |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Utah Board of Higher Education |
| History | |
| Founded | March 21, 1984 |
First air date | December 1, 1986 |
Former call signs | KULC (1986–2004) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 9 (VHF, 1986–2009) |
Call sign meaning | Utah Education Network |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 69582 |
| ERP | 200 kW |
| HAAT | 1,247 m (4,091 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°39′33″N 112°12′10″W / 40.65917°N 112.20278°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KUEN (channel 9), known as UEN-TV, is an educational television station licensed to Ogden, Utah, United States, serving Salt Lake City and the state of Utah. The station is owned by the Utah Board of Higher Education and part of the Utah Education Network (UEN), which provides connectivity services to the state's K-12 and higher education systems. KUEN's studios are located at the Eccles Broadcast Center on the University of Utah campus; its transmitter is located at Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City, and is extended by dozens of broadcast translators across the state.
Channel 9, an educational channel since 1962, had been unused since 1973, when KOET was shut down by the Ogden school board. Weber State College obtained a construction permit to reactivate channel 9 in 1984, but it lacked funding to construct or operate the station. The permit was transferred to the Utah higher education system in 1985, and construction and operation of channel 9 was assigned to the University of Utah. The station began broadcasting on December 1, 1986, as KULC ("Utah's Learning Channel") with a selection of telecourses for college credit from institutions across the state.
In 1989, the Utah Education Network was formed to coordinate this activity and, ultimately, internet connectivity for public schools in Utah. KULC, along with the University of Utah's public broadcasting stations, moved into the Eccles Broadcast Center in 1993. As part of efforts to reinforce the brand of its parent, KULC changed its call sign to KUEN in 2004 and became known as UEN-TV. The station offers educational programming, secondary public television programming from independent producers, and a limited amount of local production.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KUEN". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.