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KTGF
Great Falls, Montana
Channels 16 (UHF) analog,
45 (UHF) digital
Affiliations Fox
Owner Destiny Communications
Founded August 6, 1985
Former affiliations NBC (August 6, 1985 - June 30,2005)
Transmitter Power 2040 kW (analog)
175 kW (digital)
Website www.ktgf.com

KTGF is a television station in Great Falls, Montana, broadcasting locally on channel 16 as an affiliate of Fox. KTGF was founded on August 6, 1985, by Continental Telvision. The station immediately became the city's first full time affiliate of theNBC television network. From its inception, the station was far behind KRTV and KFBB in the ratings. Due to weak ratings the station scrapped its local news department in the mid 1990s.

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[edit] Big Sky News

In March 2001, Continental Television sold KTGF (along with KTMF in Missoula and KWYB in Butte) to Max Media. Max Media brought "local" news back to KTGF in 2002 with "Big Sky News." Max Media contracted with the Independent News Network to produce local news on Max Media's stations in Montana. The program actually orginated in Davenport, Iowa. After a year, "Big Sky News" was cancelled.

[edit] Max Media Sale

In 2003, Max Media signed an agreement to purchase KFBB in Great Falls and KULR in Billings from Dix Communications. Since the Great Falls television market is not large enough to own two television stations, Max immediately put KTGF up for sale. For more than a year, Max Media could not find a buyer for KTGF. Finally, Max Media sold KTGF in November 2004 to Destiny Communications of Wichita, Kansas.

[edit] Affiliation Switch

In April 2005, Beartooth Communications, the owner of KTVH the NBC affiliate in Helena, purchased a low power television permit in Great Falls for channel 50. It became obvious that Beartooth was positioning itself to take the NBC affiliation away from KTGF when the NBC affiliation agreement expired at the end of June. Destiny Communications filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission to prevent NBC from removing the affiliation and giving it to Beartooth's station, now known as KBGF-LP. As the end of June approached, confusion reigned. Both parties claimed they would be the NBC affiliate on July 1 in Great Falls. On June 29, Destiny announced that it would affiliate with the FOX network beginning July 1. This created another confusing situation because the other television station in Great Falls, KLMN was already the FOX affiliate (although the station was not carried on the local cable system). On July 1, 2005, NBC moved from KTGF to KBGF, and both KTGF and KLMN became FOX affiliates. Eventually, KLMN dropped FOX programming for UPN and in September 2006 became an affiliate of My Network TV.

[edit] Repeaters

[edit] Television tower

The KTGF television tower is a 244 metre high guyed TV mast at Great Falls, Montana, USA ( 47°36′26″N, 111°21′30″W ). KTGF Television Tower was built in 1986 and is the tallest structure of Montana.

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Broadcast television in the Great Falls market  (Nielsen DMA #190)

KRTV 3 (CBS/MTN) - KFBB 5 (ABC) - CISA 7 (Global) - KBBJ 9 / KBAO 13 / KBGF-LP 50 (NBC) - KMTF 10 (The CW) - KTGF 16 (FOX) - KLMN 26 (MNTV) - K53DW 53 (TBN)
Broadcast television available on cable only:

KUSM 9 (PBS)
Regional cable television stations:

TVMT
Fox Network Affiliates in the state of Montana

KHMT 4 (Hardin) - KTGF 16 (Great Falls) - KMMF 17 (Missoula) - KBTZ 24 (Butte)
See also: ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, UPN, WB and Other stations in Montana


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