BYU TV
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Country | United States |
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Broadcast area | United States, worldwide |
Affiliates | KBYU-TV |
Headquarters | Provo, Utah, United States |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) (HD feed downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SDTVs) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Brigham Young University |
History | |
Launched | January 1, 2000 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Provo/Salt Lake City area | KBYU-TV 11.1 |
Pago Pago, American Samoa | K11UU-D 11.4 |
Phoenix, Arizona | KGRY-LD 28.1 |
Streaming media | |
BYUtv live streaming | www |
Service(s) | Frndly TV |
BYU TV (stylized as BYUtv) is a television channel, founded in 2000, which is owned and operated as a part of Brigham Young University (BYU).[1] The channel, available through cable and satellite distributors in the United States, produces a number of original series and documentaries with emphases in comedy, history, lifestyle, music and drama. BYUtv also regularly broadcasts feature films, nature documentaries, acquired medical/crime dramas and religious programs (consistent with the university's sponsoring organization, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[2][3] Additionally, BYUtv Sports is the primary broadcaster of BYU Cougars athletics, producing more than 125 live sporting events in 2012 alone.[4] The channel has won multiple regional Emmy Awards,[5] and several of its original series have been praised by national television critics.[6][7][8]
BYUtv broadcasts all of its original content, and most acquired content, worldwide online via its website. BYUtv is also carried through KBYU-TV, a television station in Provo, Utah, also owned by the university, ensuring HD coverage across Salt Lake City and most of Utah. The channel is one of several operated by the university's BYU Broadcasting division, including the world feed BYUtv Global and BYUradio. Multiple celebrity guests and artists have made special appearances on BYUtv, notably Imagine Dragons and Neon Trees on the series AUDIO-FILES; Lea Salonga, Howard Jones, Duncan Sheik and Sixpence None the Richer on The Song That Changed My Life; and Shawn Bradley, The Piano Guys, and Mates of State on Studio C. Major athletes like Steve Young, Ty Detmer and Jimmer Fredette have also appeared on special BYUtv Sports broadcasts.[9][10][11][12]
History[edit]
BYUtv was founded in 2000, and has grown from a "relatively unknown cable channel on a single satellite" to a national provider on Dish Network, DirecTV, and over 600 cable systems in the US.[1]
During 2010 and 2011, newly appointed BYUtv director of content, Scott Swofford, commissioned focus groups targeting TV viewers who were at least nominally religious, to see what they liked, disliked and wanted on TV. Swofford summarized the results as, "We want to be entertained. Then we'll stick around for the message." This led to the creation of the pilot for Granite Flats, which became BYUtv's first and flagship original scripted television drama series, and went on to significantly expand the channel's audience, eventually attracting about 500,000 viewers per episode, compared to the previous top-rated show, Love of Quilting, which typically drew under 10,000.[13]
Programming[edit]
BYUtv produces shows under several categories: BYU Sports, Campus, Documentary, Faith, Family, Lifestyle, People, and Performing Arts.[14] This includes original series, documentaries and religious service programs, along with family and faith-based films from several major studios.
Original series[edit]
- 9 Years to Neptune
- 5000 Days: Listen
- After Further Review
- All-Round Champion
- Amelia Parker
- American Ride
- Audio-Files
- Battle of the Ages
- Best Cake Wins
- BYU Sports Nation
- BYUtv Sports Post Game
- The Canterville Ghost
- Chef Brad
- Coordinators' Corner
- Countdown to Kickoff
- Dinner Takes All
- Dwight in Shining Armor
- Extinct
- The Fixers
- The Food Nanny
- The Generations Project
- Granite Flats
- Holly Hobbie (Seasons 4-5)
- Jeff's Homemade Game Show
- The Kindness Diaries
- Making Good
- Overlord and the Underwoods[15]
- Painting the Town with Eric Dowdle
- The Parent Trip
- The Parker Andersons
- Random Acts
- Relative Race
- Relative Race - After the Finish Line[16]
- Ruby and the Well
- Show Offs
- The Song That Changed My Life
- The Story Trek
- Story Trek: Trending
- Studio C
- Survivalists[16]
- Tricked (seasons 2-3)
- Turning Point
- Wayne Brady's Comedy IQ
- The Wizard of Paws
Upcoming programming[edit]
The season premieres have all taken place.
Acquired programming[edit]
- Backyard Builds
- Heartland
- Hetty Feather
- Highway to Heaven
- Holly Hobbie (Seasons 1-3)
- The Inspectors
- Itch
- Just Like Mom and Dad
- Lark Rise to Candleford
- Leave It to Bryan
- Lucky Dog
- Malory Towers[16]
- Splatalot!
- Step Up to the Plate
- The Chosen[17]
- Tricked (season 1)
- Undercover High
- Wind at My Back
Religious programming[edit]
Religious programming derives from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which owns and operates BYU. Some religious programming airs on Sundays or in the early morning hours on BYUtv:
- BYU devotionals and forums
- BYU's Education Week and Women's Conference
- Church Educational System and church devotionals
- General Conference broadcasts and rebroadcasts
- Music and the Spoken Word
BYU Sports[edit]
The channel is the primary home for most telecasts of BYU Cougars athletics, including select home and away games for football, men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, gymnastics, men's and women's volleyball and women's soccer. Beginning in 2009, the network also began covering BYU-Hawaii Seasiders sports, including all conference home games in women's volleyball and men's basketball, as well as select conference home games in women's basketball and additional non-conference home games for men's basketball.
In 2011, BYUtv added the WCC Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments to their sports broadcasts. BYUtv produced the first round and quarterfinals of the men's and women's basketball tournaments, which were also broadcast on ESPN3.com.[18]
In 2011, ESPN reached a deal to become the official broadcaster for most games of the newly independent BYU Cougars football team. At least one home game per season would air live on BYUtv, along with reruns on BYUtv of home games broadcast on ESPN's networks.[19] Its coverage also included pre-game and post-game shows, with the pre-game show Countdown to Kickoff hosted by BYU Cougars alumni Alema Harrington, Dave McCann and a rotating panel of analysts: Gary Sheide, Blaine Fowler, David Nixon, Brian Logan, and Jan Jorgensen.[20][21] In 2014, Spencer Linton replaced Harrington on the panel.
Additionally, the network launched a separate website for its sports coverage, Byutvsports.com, in partnership with ESPN and IMG College. The site features news, video and free video on demand streaming of recent games.[22] The site folded back into byutv.org in fall 2015.
The channel also produces its own sports shows including BYU Sports Nation (weekdays, 1 hr), Countdown to Kickoff (preceding each football game, 1 hr), Postgame Show (following each football game, 30m – 1 hr), After Further Review (weekly on Tuesdays, 1 hr), Inside BYU Football (weekly on Tuesdays, 1/2 hour) and previously carried Bronco Mendenhall's post-game press conferences for football games.
Availability[edit]
The network is currently available to approximately 65 million cable and DTH (direct-to-home) satellite subscribers in the United States. It is provided by nearly 600 cable operators around the United States.[23][24] As the main feed of KBYU-TV, the station has full distribution throughout the Salt Lake City television market.
BYUtv can be found through online streaming provided by Ooyala, on the Dish Network and DirecTV pay-satellite services, and free to air via 17 and Galaxy 28 in DVB-S2 format.
In 2011, live streaming of BYUtv as well as on demand programs were made available through the iPad, iPhone, iPod and Roku streaming player.[25][26] In August 2013, BYUtv released its app for Android.[27] In April 2014, BYUtv released its app for Xbox 360.[28] In 2015, BYUtv released its apps for Chromecast, FireTV, and Fire tablets and phones.[29][30][31]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "BYUtv: Overview". Brigham Young University. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
- ^ "About". BYUtv. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
- ^ Jamshid Ghazi Askar (April 5, 2013). "If he builds it, will they come? Scott Swofford talks BYUtv". Deseret News. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
- ^ Ryan Teeples (June 19, 2013). "Ryan Teeples: BYU sports is for BYUtv, not the other way around". Deseret News. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
- ^ "Emmy (R) Awards | Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter – NATAS". Rockymountainemmy.org. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
- ^ Garvin, Glenn. "Quirky 'Granite Flats' a charmer; 'Kalman' plumbs Holocaust loss – Glenn Garvin: On TV". MiamiHerald.com. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
- ^ Ryan Morgenegg (July 25, 2013). "Season 3 of 'Studio C' on BYUtv". Deseret News. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
- ^ "If It's Aliens, at Least They Won't Be Naked 'Granite Flats,' on BYUtv, From Brigham Young University". The New York Times. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
- ^ "BYUtv's AUDIO-FILES creating underground buzz". ksl.com. April 10, 2012. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
- ^ "The Song that Changed My Life on BYUtv". Heraldextra.com. May 27, 2012. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
- ^ "Studio C – Shoulder Angel and Shawn Bradley". YouTube. December 10, 2012. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
- ^ "On BYUTV right now with Lavell and Steven Young and other QB's/ (BengalCougar)". CougarBoard.com. June 26, 2013. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
- ^ Freedman, Samuel G. (October 31, 2014). "Pop Culture and Religious Sensibility on a Mormon TV Network". New York Times. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
- ^ "BYUtv: Shows". Brigham Young University. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
- ^ "CBC, ITV pick MarbleMedia family series".
- ^ a b c "BYUtv Schedules Robust Slate of Fall Premieres". The Futon Critic. August 6, 2020.
- ^ "BYUtv Presents "The Chosen" in Broadcast World Premiere of Largest Ever Crowdfunded Series". PR Newswire. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
- ^ "2010 WCC Tournaments on BYUtv". Byutv.org. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
- ^ "ESPN Happy to let BYUtv do whatever they want with rebroadcasts". Deseret News. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
- ^ "BYUtv: Q&A, ESPN, Part 1". Deseret News. August 19, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
- ^ "BYUtv breaking new ground on sports coverage". Deseret News. May 21, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
- ^ "How can BYUtv earn money from televising sporting events". Deseret News. August 19, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
- ^ "Pierce: BYUtv gets an 'A' after first year of delivering Cougar sports". Salt Lake Tribune. June 1, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
- ^ "Get BYUtv". Byutv.org. Archived from the original on November 12, 2012. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
- ^ "BYUtv app now available for iPad and iPhone". Byutv.org. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
- ^ "BYUtv on Roku". Byutv.org. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
- ^ "BYUtv Android app ready for download". BYUtv Blog. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
- ^ "BYUtv launches Xbox 360 app". BYUtv Blog. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
- ^ "Apps - BYUtv". BYUtv.
- ^ "Blog - BYUtv". BYUtv.
- ^ "Blog - BYUtv". BYUtv.
External links[edit]
- Television networks in the United States
- Brigham Young University
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