KXGN-TV

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KXGN-TV
Image:Kxgntv5.jpg
Glendive, Montana
Branding Kx - 5
Slogan The choice cut of two states
Channels 5 (VHF) analog,
10 (VHF) digital
Affiliations CBS (primary),
NBC (secondary),
MTN
Owner Stephan Marks
(Glendive Broadcasting Corporation)
Founded November 1, 1957
Call letters meaning KX GleNdive
Former affiliations ABC, Fox, UPN
(all as part of a mix with CBS and NBC)'
Transmitter Power 14.8kw (analog)
Website kxgn.com

KXGN-TV operates as NTSC TV channel 5 in Glendive, Montana, a primarily agricultural region in eastern Montana which is the smallest of the 210 US Nielsen-designated broadcast television market areas (market data) in the United States.

KXGN carries a portion of the CBS network feed, along with some NBC programming. KXGN is the last remaining TV station in the country affiliated with more than one "big three" network. KXGN also carried UPN programming during the overnight hours until UPN closed on September 15, 2006 to combine with The WB to form The CW network; currently CW programming is seen on cable-only channel CW Glendive (formerly KWZB). The market serves a total potential home-market audience of a mere five thousand households.

KXGN has one weekday newscast -- seen in the evenings at 6PM and repeated at 10:30PM. The anchor of KXGN's newscast also doubles as the station's sole reporter and editor. [1] All other "local" newscasts on KXGN are simulcasts from Billings' KTVQ, as an affiliate of the Montana Television Network.

KXGN operates two radio stations -- KXGN-AM (1400kHz, oldies) and KDZN-FM (96.5MHz, country music).

KXGN and KDZN are owned and operated by the Glendive Broadcasting Corporation, a company owned by Stephan Marks, a Maryland man who also owns KYUS-TV in Miles City, Montana, WBKB-TV in Alpena, Michigan and WBKP in Marquette, Michigan.

Glendive Broadcasting is based at 210 S Douglas Glendive, MT 59330; Telephone 406-377-3377.

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[edit] Translators

Like many other Montana stations, KXGN relies heavily on a mix of broadcast translators and cable TV systems to extend its reach to more viewers.

KXGN's programming can be seen on the following translators (all in Montana):

K13IG is the only translator owned by KXGN -- all others are either owned by local governments or television associations.

[edit] Transition to ATSC digital

KXGN was allocated ATSC TV channel 10 by the FCC in September, 2004 [2] after receiving multiple extensions (on the grounds of financial hardship) of the original May 1, 2002 deadline to go digital. [3]

Obstacles to the digital transition include cost (estimated as of 2002 at slightly over $1 million for KXGN and two other stations owned by the same person), the limited number of households which would be able to receive the digital signal (as many depend on repeaters to receive TV at all) and the small number of ATSC-digital TV sets in use. If as of 2002 new analogue TV's outsold the expensive digital sets 50 to 1, few will be watching ATSC even where the signal is physically available.

The major obstacles which apply to the adoption of terrestrial digital TV elsewhere (limited amount of HD content, high cost relative to competition from free-to-air DVB satellite or subscription TV services) still apply, but are magnified by the small and widely geographically-distributed audience of a small-market station.


[edit] KXGN Personalities

Dorothy Sturlaugson - Public Affairs Nikki Mannin - Traffic


[edit] External links


Broadcast television in the Glendive market  (Nielsen DMA #210)

KXGN 5 (CBS/NBC/MTN) - K13PL 13 (NBC)
Local cable television channels:

"CW Glendive" (The CW)
Broadcast television available on cable only:

KMGH 7 (ABC, Denver) - KUSM 9 (PBS, Bozeman) - KDVR 31 (FOX, Denver)
See also: Broadcast television in Billings, Great Falls, and West ND
CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Montana

KTVQ 2 (Billings) - KRTV 3 (Great Falls) - KXLF 4 / KBZK 7 / KXLH-LP 25 (Butte / Bozeman / Helena) - KXGN 5 (Glendive) - KPAX 8 / K18AJ 18 (Missoula / Kalispell)
See also: ABC, Fox, NBC, PBS, UPN, WB and Other stations in Montana
NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Montana

KXGN 5 (Glendive) - KULR 8 / KYUS 3 (Billings / Miles City) - KTVH 12 / KBGF-LP (Helena / Great Falls) - KECI 13 / KTVM 6 / KCFW 9 (Missoula / Butte / Kalispell) - K13PL (Glendive)
See also: ABC, CBS, Fox, PBS, UPN, WB and Other stations in Montana
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