KULR-TV
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| KULR-TV / KYUS-TV | |
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| KULR: Billings, Montana KYUS: Miles City, Montana |
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| Branding | KULR 8 News |
| Slogan | Working in the Spirit of Montana |
| Channels | Analog: KULR: 8 (VHF) KYUS: 3 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | NBC |
| Owner | KULR: Max Media, LLC KYUS: Stephan Marks (KULR: MMM License II, LLC KYUS: KYUS-TV Broadcasting Corporation) |
| First air date | KULR: March 15, 1958 KYUS: 1969[1] |
| Call letters’ meaning | KULR: Color KYUS: cayuse, a type of Native American pony |
| Former callsigns | KULR: KGHL-TV (1958-1963) |
| Former affiliations | KULR: NBC (1958-1980) ABC (1980-1986) |
| Transmitter Power | KULR: 316 kW (analog) 16 kW (digital) KYUS: 10.5 kW (analog) 2.9 kW (digital) |
| Height | KULR: 229 m (analog) 191 m (digital) KYUS: 31 m (analog) 30 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | KULR: 35724 KYUS: 5237 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | KULR: KYUS: |
| Website | www.kulr8.com |
KULR-TV is a NBC affiliate broadcasting on channel 8 (Cable channel 9) in Billings, Montana. Its first broadcast was in March 15, 1958 as KGHL-TV. The callsign was changed to KULR in 1963 and it is still affiliated with NBC (though during 1980 to circa 1983, it was an ABC affiliate, while KOUS held the NBC affiliation). KULR is currently-owned by Max Media. In Billings, KULR also operates cable-only CW affiliate, KWBM.
KULR's programming and schedule is also seen on KYUS-TV in Miles City, Montana; that station is owned and operated by Maryland businessman Stephan Marks, who also owns KXGN-TV in Glendive, Montana, WBKB-TV in Alpena, Michigan, and WBKP and WBUP in Marquette, Michigan. KULR programs and operates the station on Marks' behalf. Previously, KYUS was notorious for being the smallest network affiliate in America, which, at one time, featured a man who did the news, sports, weather and reporting himself -- he was also featured in the late-1970s on NBC's Real People and in TV Guide for his career. During the 1980s, KYUS became mainly a satellite station in the 1980s, first with KOUS, then with KULR, after KOUS flipped to Fox as KHMT.
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[edit] Old KYUS Screenshots
These old screenshots pertain to a period when KYUS, now a KULR-satellite, was a satellite of KOUS (now KHMT).
 Promo for Remington Steele on KOUS/KYUS. |
 Promo for Creature Features on KOUS/KYUS. |
[edit] Notable staff
- Patty Souza, Now at KXTV ABC in Sacramento, Ca
- Conrad Burns, United States Senator from Montana, worked as a farm reporter here.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- KULR 8 official site
- maxmontana.com
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KULR
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KYUS
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KULR-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KYUS-TV
[edit] References
- ^ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says KYUS signed on August 29, while the Television and Cable Factbook says it signed on September 1.
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