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KUTV’s street-facing newsroom has devolved from downtown SLC...
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KUTV's Main Street newsroom sits increasingly dark, quiet and closed off in the Wells Fargo building. Gavin Sheehan Back in 2002, after the Olympics had come and gone, there was a movement to revitalize downtown. Years of construction to rebuild I-15 and install Trax on Main Street compounded the impact of departing businesses, and there were lots of ideas for how to bring people back to the city.
One of those ideas was for KUTV—then owned by CBS/Viacom—to establish itself as a centerpiece of the new downtown era by moving from its crowded, labyrinthine warehouse in West Valley to the…
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