KUPX-TV
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| City | Provo, Utah |
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| Channels | |
| Branding | The Spot Utah 16 |
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| Ownership | |
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| KSTU | |
| History | |
| Founded | April 24, 1985 |
First air date | April 21, 1998 |
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Former channel numbers | Analog: 16 (UHF, 1998–2009) |
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Call sign meaning | Utah's Pax TV (former affiliation) |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 57884 |
| ERP | 530 kW |
| HAAT | 1,171 m (3,842 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°39′12″N 112°12′9″W / 40.65333°N 112.20250°W |
| Translator(s) | see § Translators |
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Public license information | |
| Website | utah16 |
KUPX-TV (channel 16), branded as The Spot Utah 16, is an independent television station licensed to Provo, Utah, United States, serving Salt Lake City and the state of Utah. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Fox affiliate/Ion Television owned-and-operated station KSTU (channel 13). The two stations share studios on West Amelia Earhart Drive in the northwestern section of Salt Lake City; KUPX-TV's transmitter is located on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City.
Though a construction permit was issued for channel 16 in 1985, the station was not completed for another 13 years. In that time, it was sold twice. While channel 16 was originally intended to be an affiliate of The WB, a 1998 swap with Paxson Communications Corporation saw Paxson trade channel 30 for channel 16; as a result, KUWB instead launched on channel 30 in April 1998, while channel 16 signed on to air infomercials and later the Pax/Ion network. Scripps acquired Ion Media in 2020; it moved Ion Television to a subchannel in 2023 and converted the main channel to an independent station which aired Vegas Golden Knights and Arizona Coyotes hockey games in Utah. Since the 2024–25 season, it has been the broadcast home of the Utah Mammoth.