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),
The Sportsman Channel (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 channel 5 is a television station in Glendive, Montana, a primarily agricultural region in eastern Montana which is the smallest of the 210 US Nielsen-designated broadcast television market areas in the United States, and the smallest television market in the United States.[1]

KXGN carries a portion of the CBS network feed, along with some NBC programming;[2] it is currently the only station to do so.[citation needed] KXGN also offers programming from The Sportsman Channel during the late-night hours on weekends. 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.[1]

KXGN-TV is owned by Glendive Broadcasting Corporation. Glendive Broadcasting also operates two of the three Glendive radio stations. KXGN (AM) 1400 and KDZN 96.5 FM have been owned by Glendive Broadcasting since the late 1970s and 1986 respectfully. Maryland-native Stephan Marks owns Glendive Broadcasting along with KYUS-TV in Miles City, Montana, WBKB-TV in Alpena, Michigan and WBKP in Marquette, Michigan.

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[edit] News Programming

KXGN airs a local newscast called Montana East weeknights evenings at 5:55PM and again at 10:30PM. Anchor Ed Agre also doubles as the station's sole reporter and editor.[2] All other "local" newscasts on KXGN are simulcasts from Billings' KTVQ, as an affiliate of the Montana Television Network. The Early Show from CBS is the only news on KXGN in the morning.

  • "The Noon News" (from KTVQ) - Weekdays at Noon
  • "The 5:30 News" (from KTVQ) - 7 Days a Week at 5:30pm
  • "Montana East" (local) - Weeknights at 5:55pm
  • "The 10:00 News" (from KTVQ) - 7 Nights a Week at 10:00pm
  • "Montana East" (local) - Weeknights at 10:35pm
KXGN-TV's studios along South Douglas Street in Downtown Glendive, MT.
KXGN-TV's studios along South Douglas Street in Downtown Glendive, MT.

[edit] Programming

[edit] Primetime

KXGN airs the entire CBS programming lineup from 6pm MST to 9pm MST. At 9pm MST, KXGN then airs NBC programming that is either airing at that time or recorded earlier that evening.

As of March 2007, NBC programs on KXGN at 9PM are:

Day Show
Sundays Crossing Jordan (delay from Wednesday)
Mondays Deal or No Deal (delay from 7PM MT)
Tuesdays Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Wednesdays Medium
Thursdays ER
Fridays Law & Order
Saturdays 9PM: My Name Is Earl
9:30PM: The Office
(both shows delayed from Thursday)

[edit] Daytime

Weekdays, KXGN carries The Early Show, The Price Is Right (at 9AM), and all CBS soaps, beginning at 10AM. NBC's two soaps follow, with Days of our Lives at 2PM and Passions 3PM. It is unknown at this time what KXGN will do once NBC cancels Passions at the end of the 2006-2007 season. Its only syndicated program on weekdays is The Ellen DeGeneres Show, at 4PM.

Weekends, KXGN carries CBS's The Early Show and KOL Secret Slumber Party on CBS on Saturday mornings, with CBS News Sunday Morning and Face the Nation on Sunday mornings, mixed with syndicated programming.

Most of KXGN's sports, including NFL football, come from CBS. It is unknown at present if KXGN carries any sports from NBC.

[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.

All KXGN translators are 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[3] after receiving multiple extensions of the original May 1, 2002 deadline to go digital due to financial hardship.[4]

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] References

  1. ^ a b Market information. Backchannelmedia. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.
  2. ^ a b "Glendive TV station is one-man operation", Billings Gazette, 2003-10-06. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.
  3. ^ FCC Report and Order for DTV Allotment (PDF) (2004-09-23). Retrieved on March 25, 2007.
  4. ^ S. Talwani. "Digital Television Coming...Slowly", Montana Journalism Review. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.

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

Local television stations
KXGN 5 (CBS/NBC/SC/MTN) - K13PL 13 (NBC)
Broadcast television available on cable only:

KMGH 7 (ABC, Denver) - KUSM 9 (PBS, Bozeman) - KDVR 31 (FOX, Denver)
Local/Regional cable television channels

"CW Glendive" (The CW) - TVMT
See also Broadcast television in the Western North Dakota market
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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