Salt Lake City's 2NEWS makes the switch to HD
By Darren Murph 
posted Apr 22nd 2008 5:50PM
posted Apr 22nd 2008 5:50PM
Just weeks after Comcast users in the greater Salt Lake City, Utah area were gifted with five new HD channels, residents of SLC now have one more reason to flip on the evening news. This past Saturday, the city's 2NEWS (KUTV, a local CBS affiliate) made the leap to high-definition, as its 5:30PM newscast was shown for the first time in HD. Additionally, HD cameras were used to capture clips from the Salt Lake City Marathon, and an all new HD-ready control room is being used to make the magic happen. Another news channels gets with the times -- can't complain with that.
It is nice having more than one option for HD news, but I think channel 5 news is a lot more professional. I might just watch channel 2 during channel 5's commercials (With the help of TiVo).
Channel 5 more professional? Between their amateurish reporters and typos they're ridiculous. Channel 5's HD quality sucks too. I'm going to give channel 2 a serious look now.
Finally, more than one option for news in HD. I always felt cheated watching 2 news in SD as CBS appears to have a better HD feed here than NBC. It has also been nice to finally have the Jazz games in HD on KJZZ.
It seemed like KSL had been the only one investing in HD. It's finally nice to see the other stations coming around. It really felt to me like if you wanted to see HD programming outside primetime KSL was more likely to have it.
Hopefully ABC is coming soon even though it's 720p. My buddy is the producer of a local TV show there and I believe he said their show is going HD in October. They are already shooting it in HD, but channel 4 is still airing it in SD.
KSL dose not have any HD cameras they only upscale there SD cams. The CBS station dose have HD cams in there studio but the do upscale there in site cams. Also CBS should not up scale there on site cams because they need to go through and check there system, there is a lot of ghosting and color problems with it.