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KXLF-TV's studios are located on South Montana Street in downtown Butte, and its transmitter is located on XL Heights east of the city. KXLF-TV and KBZK (channel 7) in Bozeman split the media market, and local news for the Butte area is produced from KBZK's Bozeman studios. KXLF-TV is Montana's first and oldest television station.
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] The network was organized by the owners of KXLF, KID-TV, and KMVT.
At the time, in the Missoula–Butte market, the existing two stations each had their own network affiliations. The Eagle Communications network (KECI-TV in Missoula and KTVM-TV in Butte) was an NBC–CBS affiliate, while KXLF-TV and KPAX-TV in Missoula had held first call rights to ABC programs while also airing some CBS shows.
In 1976, primary coverage of ABC programs shifted from KGVO-TV to KXLF and its Missoula satellite, KPAX-TV. [ 15 ] Dale Moore's Western Broadcasting Company reached a deal to sell KGVO-TV, KCFW, and KTVM to Eagle Communications, Inc.—a company formed by former The Ed Sullivan Show producer Robert Precht and Advance Communications, owner of ...
Ground was broken on the studio and transmitter facilities there in early June, [7] and programming from KOOK-TV began on November 9, 1953. [8] It was the third station in the state: Butte's KXLF-TV had begun in August, and a second station, KOPR-TV, had started there at about the same time. [9]
After brief stops in Great Falls (KFBB-TV as a reporter in 1979) and Billings (KTVQ-TV as a videographer 1979–1981), he was hired in 1981 as a news reporter at KXLF-TV in Butte, and promoted to news director in 1986. After leaving KXLF in 1988, he became an advertising sales executive for Butte's cable TV companies (the last being Charter ...
Two years later, he bought Charleston's morning paper, The News & Courier [2] –the oldest daily newspaper in the South. The company launched an international syndication arm, Editors Press Service, in 1933. Robert's brother Edward took over in 1945 after Robert's death; he was in turn succeeded by his son Peter. [2]
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