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KTVQ's studios are located on Third Avenue North in Billings, and its transmitter is located on Sacrifice Cliff southeast of downtown. Channel 2 began broadcasting as KOOK-TV on November 9, 1953. It was the first station in Billings and the third in the state of Montana, built by radio station KOOK; it was a CBS affiliate from the outset. The ...
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Billings: 2 10 KTVQ: CBS: Independent on 2.2, Grit on 2.3 : Billings: Hardin: 4 22 KHMT: Fox: Court TV on 4.2, Laff on 4.3, Ion on 4.4
The predecessor to MTN was the Skyline Network, which began in 1958. It included KOOK-TV in Billings, KXLF-TV in Butte and its satellite KXLJ-TV in Helena, and KFBB-TV in Great Falls, as well as two Idaho properties, KID-TV in Idaho Falls and KLIX-TV in Twin Falls. [1]
Billings, Montana: KTVQ 2: 1953–1958, 1968–1982 (both secondary) CBS KULR-TV 8 (previously with NBC from 1958 to 1982 (primary until 1968)) / KYUS-TV 3 (previously with NBC from 1970 to 1987) Secondary affiliation, with CBS as its primary affiliation.
The station's studios are located on Overland Avenue in the Homestead Business Park section of Billings, and its transmitter is located on Coburn Hill southeast of downtown. 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 ...
In 1982, KOUS became a primary NBC affiliate, which Billings lacked at the time; while the station already carried some NBC programming, it had primarily been an independent station. [6] Since 1968, NBC had largely been relegated to secondary clearances on CBS affiliate KTVQ (channel 2) and ABC affiliate KULR-TV (channel 8)—as was PBS until ...
Additionally, some commercial stations in Montana, including KTVQ in Billings and KFBB in Great Falls, carried Sesame Street and may have carried other PBS programs. The University of Utah, owner of KUED, was willing to bring a KUED satellite station to Bozeman if there was enough local support. However, the only viable facilities for such a ...
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.