Television
Department
Free over-the-air television service
Carbon County provides over-the-air television service to the majority of the residents of Carbon County. Through the use of 6 transmitter sites, we deliver this to the home if the homeowner installs their own receiving antenna.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MeTV Broadcast Transition in Carbon County
PRICE, UT – July 29, 2025 – Carbon County Television received short noticed information that beginning today there will be important changes regarding the broadcast of MeTV programming for its viewers.
Effective Tuesday, July 29, MeTV will no longer be available on KTVX (ABC) channel 4.2. Viewers can now find MeTV exclusively on KCSG (MeTV) channel 8.1.
Carbon County Television is actively working to implement the necessary equipment changes to accommodate this transition and ensure a seamless viewing experience. During this period, residents may experience intermittent outages or disruptions in television service as our teams work to update the broadcasting infrastructure. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we strive to complete these adjustments as quickly as possible.
While it was once believed that Channel 8 would no longer be available, Carbon County Television is working to make changes to continue the service.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank our viewers for their continued support.
TV Channels 14 (KJZZ) and 30 (CW) from Star Point are offline. The TV amplifier for these channels has suffered a failure and will need to be replaced. The outage is only for these two channels from Star Point. These two channels are still available from the other translator sites. Access to Star Point is now difficult due to snow fall on the mountain and we do not yet have an estimated time for replacement of the amplifier.
The repair for the TV problem has been accomplished at Ford Ridge. Normal TV channels should now be available now at all sites. If you have issues please try to rescan your TV. A tower crew was able to reach the communication site and was able to replace the faulty cable up the tower.
We now have conformation of shipment of the backordered parts to fix the problem at Ford Ridge. The equipment should arrive on the 8th of April. After this date the tower crew will set a date to install the new equipment on the tower, depending on weather and safety.
We have ordered the equipment for the repair at the Ford Ridge communication site. We have specified quick delivery and some parts will be here today. Unfortunately some parts are backordered and we are waiting for them to get back into stock. Once in stock they too will be delivered quickly. Once all the parts arrive a tower crew will be sent to the site weather permitting. The issue is a main cable problem for the microwave radio receiver that is used to get the TV channels to us from Salt Lake. The fix will require a tower crew to remove the bad cable and replace it with the new better cable on the tower.
We have implemented at temporary fix to get some channels back on the air. Those that have their antenna pointed towards Ford Ridge and Star Point should have most of the channels. Those in the Helper area should have about half the channels. Those in northeast price and use Wood Hill only have a few channels back. We are working to get Helper and Wood Hill to have the same channels as Ford and Star Point. This is a temporary fix and there still could be issues until the proper fix has been implemented.
As of 3/25/2024 we are aware of the issue with the over-the-air TV signals. This issue is system wide and we have chased down the problem to Ford Ridge. We are now working on solutions to fix the problem. At this moment we do not have a time when it will be fixed.
As of 11/6/2023 To address the previous issues our technicians have replaced older Cable with newer Fiber.
10/20/2023 – There is a problem in Utah County that is causing a TV reception problem for Southeastern Utah residents. We have technicians working on the problem and are currently waiting on some parts to hopefully resolve the interference that we are receiving. The parts are anticipated to be received early next week.
10/17/23 – We are continuing repairs on TV signal issues. The system was taken offline as of this morning and technicians are working on equipment in Lehi (Lake Mountain.) We plan to have services restored around 5PM.
As of 10/4 the loss of Utility power and compounding backup power issues are causing Television outages. Repairs are in progress. (Utility Power has been restored)
As of 10/3, our technician is currently deployed at Ford Ridge making repairs and diagnosing issues that have been reported.
Carbon County broadcasts, free, over-the-air, digital television channels from its Star Point, Ford Ridge, and Helper, Wood Hill, Scofield, Clear Creek, communication sites. These channels are the Salt Lake area channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, and 30 and now almost every home in the Carbon County area will have the capability of receiving FREE, over-the-air, DIGITAL television channels, each of which has one or more SUB channels for a total of as many as 33 or more channels.
You will need a reasonably good VHF - UHF combo television antenna and feed line (COAX cable). An outdoor antenna is highly recommended. If you have a splitter in-line to feed more than one television, you may need a good low-noise preamp or distribution amp.
Viewers in Helper and northeast Price (signal from Wood Hill) will require a VHF / UHF combo antenna. These sites broadcast in the VHF and UHF bands. If a preamp or distribution amp is also required make sure it covers both of these bands.
Position the antenna's orientation so it faces our transmitting sites and has a clear sightline (see diagram below).
You will need either a television with a built-in receiver labeled as ATSC, or a stand-alone digital ATSC box that will sit on top of your regular analog TV.
Most large-screen TV's on the market today have the ATSC (digital receiver) built in. If you are planning to buy a new television in the near future, be sure to look for the ATSC (digital receiver) listed on the box or display. If you buy a TV that says "HDTV Monitor" or "HDTV Ready", then it most likely DOES NOT have a digital receiver built in, and you will need to purchase a stand-alone ATSC box. Be sure to ask your sales person to verify whether or not it has the digital television receiver built in.
For televisions that do not have a built-in "ATSC" digital tuner, there is a "SET TOP" box that plugs into your existing TV just like a DVD player does.
Television Networks
| wdt_ID | Channel | Network | Name | Format | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CH 2.1 | CBS | KUTV | Widescreen (16:9) | 1080i |
| 2 | CH 2.1 | CBS | KUTV | Widescreen (16:9) | 1080i |
| 3 | CH 2.1 | CBS | KUTV | Widescreen (16:9) | 1080i |
| 4 | CH 4.2 | Me-TV | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 5 | CH 4.3 | Rewind TV | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 6 | CH 4.4 | TheGrio | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 7 | CH 5.1 | NBC | KSL | Widescreen (16:9) | 1080i |
| 8 | CH 5.2 | Cozi-TV | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 9 | CH 5.3 | This TV | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 10 | CH 7.1 | PBS | KUED | Widescreen (16:9) | 720p |
| 11 | CH 7.2 | World | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 12 | CH 7.3 | PBS Kids | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 13 | CH 7.4 | Create | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 14 | CH 9.1 | KUEN | Widescreen (16:9) | 1080i | |
| 15 | CH 9.2 | NASA TV | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 16 | CH 9.3 | FNX | First Nations Experience | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i |
| 17 | CH 9.4 | NHK | NHK World | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i |
| 18 | CH 9.91 | KUER-FM (Audio Only) | Standard (4:3) | 480i | |
| 19 | CH 11.1 | KBYU - BYUtv | Widescreen (16:9) | 720p | |
| 20 | CH 11.2 | BYURADIO (Audio Only) | Standard (4:3) | 480i | |
| 21 | CH 11.3 | KBYU-FM (Audio Only) | Standard (4:3) | 480i | |
| 22 | CH 13.1 | FOX | KSTU | Widescreen (16:9) | 720p |
| 23 | CH 13.2 | ION | Standard (4:3) | 480i | |
| 24 | CH 13.3 | COURTTV | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 25 | CH 13.4 | Bounce | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 26 | CH 13.5 | QVC | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 27 | CH 14.1 | KJZZ | Widescreen (16:9) | 720p | |
| 28 | CH 2.3 | Comet | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 29 | CH 14.3 | Roar | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 30 | CH 2.4 | Nest | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 31 | CH 16.1 | ION | Utah16 | Widescreen (16:9) | 720p |
| 32 | CH 16.2 | Grit | Widescreen (16:9) | 720p | |
| 33 | CH 16.3 | Laff | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 34 | CH 16.4 | ION | Widescreen (16:9 | 480i | |
| 35 | CH 16.5 | ION Plus | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 36 | CH 16.6 | Busted | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 37 | CH 30.1 | KUCW | Widescreen (16:9) | 720p | |
| 38 | CH 30.2 | Mystery! | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 39 | CH 30.3 | DefyTV | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 40 | CH 30.4 | Shop-LC | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 41 | CH 13.6 | SHOP-LC | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 42 | CH 14.5 | DABL | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 43 | CH 16.7 | GameSto | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 44 | CH 16.8 | HSN | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 45 | CH 16.9 | HSN2 | Widescreen (16:9) | 480i | |
| 46 | CH 8.1 | meTV | Widescreen (16:9) | ||
| 47 | CH 8.2 | Catchy | Widescreen (16:9) | ||
| 48 | CH 8.3 | Start | Widescreen (16:9) | ||
| 49 | CH 8.4 | Heroes | Widescreen (16:9) | ||
| 50 | CH 8.5 | West | Widescreen (16:9) | ||
| 51 | CH 8.6 | Story | Widescreen (16:9) | ||
| 52 | CH 8.7 | Movies | Widescreen (16:9) | ||
| 53 | CH 8.8 | Toons | Widescreen (16:9) | ||
| 54 | CH 8.9 | DABL | Widescreen (16:9) | ||
| 55 | CH 8.10 | meTV+ | Widescreen (16:9) | ||
| 56 | CH 13.7 | HSN | Widescreen (16:9) | ||
| Channel | Network | Name | Format | Resolution |
Carbon County uses tax dollars to provide this service to the citizens of Carbon County. Through these tax dollars and grants, we maintain the equipment on all the mountain tops to transmit the signal to the valleys.
We also participate in the Eastern Utah Television Association, which is a collaboration effort among the regional counties to make sure the tv signal is brought into the area and delivered to each of the participating counties.
You may call a local electrician, or handyman and they may be able to help you with the installation.
Unfortunately we cannot install equipment for private citizens.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Carbon County Communications
751 E 100 N Ste 2500
Price, UT 84501