NBC North Dakota

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KFYR / KMOT / KQCD / KUMV
KFYR (5) Bismarck, KMOT (10) Minot KQCD (7) Dickinson, KUMV (8) Williston
Branding	NBC North Dakota
Slogan	The News Leader
Channels	5, 10, 7, 8 analog, 31, 58, 18, 52 digital
Affiliations	NBC
Owner	Hoak Media Corporation
Founded	December 19, 1953
Call letters meaning	KFYR "K-Fire" (inherited from KFYR-AM) KMOT "Minot" KUMV "Upper Missouri Valley" KQCD "Queen City Dickinson"
Former affiliations	ABC (secondary) 1953-1986
Website	KFYR Bismarck KMOT Minot

NBC North Dakota is a group of five television stations in North Dakota affiliated with the National Broadcasting Company, currently owned by Hoak Media Corporation of Dallas, Texas.

Fargo's NBC affiliate KVLY-TV is owned by the same unit but operates separately from the western North Dakota stations. This article focuses on the western North Dakota operations.

Contents 1 Stations 1.1 Translators 2 History 3 Station Information & Programming 4 External links

[edit] Stations

The stations include:

Call sign	Analog Channel	Digital Channel	Location	Notes
KFYR	5	31	Bismarck, ND	originating station
KMOT	10	58	Minot, ND	airs KFYR feed with local inserts
KQCD	7	18	Dickinson, ND	rebroadcasts KFYR
KUMV	8	52	Williston, ND	airs KFYR feed with local inserts

[edit] Translators

NBC North Dakota can also bee seen on the following translators (low power rebroadcasters):

• Lemmon, SD K07FG 7 (rebroadcasts KFYR 5)
• Beulah K09EZ 9 (rebroadcasts KFYR 5)
• Glendive, MT K13PL 13 (rebroadcasts KUMV 8)

[edit] History

KFYR-TV, the flagship station, signed on December 19, 1953 as the third television station in North Dakota. The three satellites all signed on in the late 1950s and 1960s. Together, the four stations cover all of western North Dakota and parts of eastern Montana. NBC North Dakota formerly had a secondary affiliation with ABC shared with rival KX Television until full-time ABC affiliate ABC West signed on.

The network was owned by the Meyer family, who signed on KFYR-AM 550 in 1925, until 1997, when it was sold to Sunrise Television Corporation. Sunrise sold it to Wicks Television (part of The Wicks Group of Companies of New York City, through a holding company, North Dakota Television, LLC.) in 2002. The stations have always been NBC affiliates.

Hoak bought KFYR and its satellite stations in July 2006, as well as KVLY-TV and KXJB-TV (LMA with Catamount Broadcasting) of Fargo and KSFY of Sioux Falls, SD and its satellite stations. On November 17, 2006, the sale was approved by the FCC.

[edit] Station Information & Programming

KFYR broadcasts local newscasts at (all Central time) 6:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m., and 10:00 p.m. Monday through Friday; 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Saturday and 10 p.m. on Sunday. KMOT produces its own newscasts on weekdays at 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. which air about 10 minutes into KFYR's newscasts. KQCD places local inserts into KFYR's newscasts, while KUMV does the same with KMOT's newscasts.

The stations occasionally share stories with co-owned KVLY. The five stations all broadcast the North Dakota state high school football, men's hockey, and basketball tournaments annually, and share certain equipment, such as remote broadcasting vehicles.

[edit] External links

• KFYR-TV Bismarck website
• KMOT Minot website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KFYR
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KMOT
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KUMV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KQCD
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K13PL
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K09EZ
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K07FG