KUED has a long and successful history of national television productions. Its productions have received numerous prestigious national awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Alfred I. Dupont Award, the CINE Golden Eagle, the National Headliner Award and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Award, among others. In addition to its award-winning documentaries and public affairs programs, KUED has produced many nationally distributed musical specials. Among those are Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Shirley Verrett, A Christmas Gloria with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Canadian Brass, An Easter Gift of Music with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah Symphony and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa , and A Gift of Music with the Utah Symphony and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

John Howe

John Howe, executive producer of Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, is KUED's Senior Producer for Cultural Affairs. Howe was Executive Producer of the inaugural 2004 PBS edition of this annual Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert which was the top rated PBS Christmas program. A veteran of public broadcasting, he is responsible for national documentaries, drama, and television concerts. His most recent projects include Wild River: The Colorado ,   Utah: The National Parks , Butch Cassidy and the Outlaw Trail (narrated by Hal Holbrook), Artists of the West and The Great Salt Lake: America's Legacy of Wetlands (narrated by Academy Award winner Joanne Woodward). He is probably best known for his national PBS films, including The Snow Wolves , but also films for The Discovery Channel ( River of Stone with Robert Redford), Turner, and National Geographic. His work has been recognized by many national film festivals including New York, Houston, San Francisco, U.S. International, Cindy, and Iris, as well as multiple prestigious CINE Golden Eagles and multiple regional Emmy awards. John Howe holds a Master's Degree from San Diego State University in Television and Film and a Bachelor's Degree from Arizona State University.