The channel 20 allocation in Salt Lake City was originally occupied by
KSTU (an
independent station at the time, now a
Fox affiliate) from 1978 to 1987. As part of a deal that was approved by the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the KSTU intellectual unit moved to channel 13 in 1987 and currently operates under a separate license. The old channel 20 license was deleted; KTMW's license dates back to its filing on December 8, 1997. Alpha & Omega Broadcasting, former owners of
KOOG (channel 30), was granted the license in 1998. KTMW signed on March 31, 2001, with a
religious format. The station would run shows like
The 700 Club,
Joyce Meyer,
James Robison, and others; the original meaning of the calls stood for "The Master's Way". It eventually affiliated with
FamilyNet and ran its classic TV shows for about a third of the day. On April 1, 2015, Alpha & Omega Communications filed an application to sell KTMW to Serestar Communications. It was approved by the FCC on August 13, 2015. The sale was completed on August 31, 2015. On July 30, 2015, Airwaves, Inc. filed an application to sell KULX-CD and KULU-CD to Serestar, who immediately took over the station's operations through a
time brokerage agreement (TBA). The sale was completed on October 7, 2015. Later that month, KTMW switched to
Telemundo, simulcasting low-power sister station KULX-CD. Serestar agreed to sell KTMW, KULX-CD, and KULU-CD to
NBCUniversal on November 28, 2018, as part of a $21 million deal; that transaction closed on March 5, 2019. NBCUniversal already owned the KEJT-CD license, with Serestar operating it under a TBA that was terminated concurrent with the sale. KEJT-CD was the second property in Utah to be owned by NBC as it previously owned
KUTV (channel 2, now a
CBS affiliate) until 1995 when it was sold to CBS alongside then-sister station
KCNC-TV in
Denver. KUTV is currently owned by the
Sinclair Broadcast Group as of 2021. == Former original programming ==