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The station is separately owned from KULR-TV by The Marks Group, which also owns several radio stations in Montana and KXGN-TV in Glendive, but the Cowles Company brokers all of its airtime. At one point known as the smallest network affiliate in the country, KYUS has largely served as a satellite of other stations since 1984 and has simulcast ...
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KULR-TV was the second TV station on the air in Billings; it began broadcasting as KGHL-TV, co-owned with KGHL radio, on March 15, 1958. The station was renamed KULR-TV in 1963 when it was separated from the radio stations. It was an ABC affiliate from 1969 to 1987, when it returned to NBC.
Throughout most of the station's life from the 1970s onwarwd, it was known as Y-93 FM and was the dominant Top 40/CHR station for the Billings metro area for over three decades. As the 1990s went along, Y-93 tweaked its CHR format towards Adult Top 40, but by 2000, the station became a full-blown Hot AC.
MTN operated under split ownership from 1986 to 1994, when the Billings station was reunited with the rest of the network. Expansions in local news in Kalispell and Bozeman , as well as a full entrance into the Helena market and later the purchase of its established commercial station, have grown the network over the last 20 years.
KURL-AM began broadcasting a news/talk format. In 2013, the station celebrated its 50th year of broadcasting. [4] On May 7, 2019, Connoisseur Media announced that it would sell its Billings cluster to Desert Mountain Broadcasting, an entity formed by Connoisseur Billings general manager Cam Maxwell. [5] The sale closed on July 31, 2019.
KHMT (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Hardin, Montana, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Billings area. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting, which maintains joint sales and shared services agreements with Nexstar Media Group, owner of dual ABC/CW affiliate KSVI (channel 6), for the provision of certain services.
KSVI went on the air January 8, 1993, [4] under the ownership of Big Horn Communications. [5] Big Horn had previously signed on KOUS-TV (channel 4) in 1980. However, for most of its existence, KOUS was plagued by marginal reception in some parts of Billings, since its transmitter was located 18 miles (29 km) east of the city in order to ensure city-grade coverage of its city of license, Hardin.