KUSM

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KUSM / KUFM-TV
KUSM: Bozeman, Montana
KUFM: Missoula, Montana
Branding Montana PBS
Channels Analog:
KUSM: 9 (VHF)
KUFM: 11 (VHF)

Digital:
KUSM: 8 (VHF)
KUFM: 27 (UHF)
Affiliations PBS
Owner KUSM: Montana State University
KUFM: The University of Montana
First air date KUSM: October 1, 1984
KUFM: 1996
Call letters’ meaning KUSM:
Montana State University reversed
KUFM:
University oF Montana
Transmitter Power KUSM:
44 kW (analog)
17.9 kW (digital)
KUFM:
9.06 kW (analog)
11.9 kW (digital)
Height KUSM:
277 m (analog)
271 m (digital)
KUFM:
631 m (analog)
630 m (digital)
Facility ID KUSM: 43567
KUFM: 66611
Transmitter Coordinates KUSM:
45°40′22.4″N, 110°52′2.4″W
KUFM:
46°48′8.5″N, 113°58′25″W
Website www.montanapbs.org

KUSM channel 9, known on-air as Montana PBS, is a PBS station that is based at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. The station's facilities are in the Visual Communications Building on campus. Programming can also be seen on KUFM-TV, channel 11 in Missoula, Montana, located at the University of Montana-Missoula, and on a network of 60 low-powered repeaters in Montana, plus statewide cable coverage.

Due to a strong program for documentary filmmaking at MSU, many programs broadcast on KUSM are locally produced.

Some of the Montana-made programming is now available as a video podcast through a new distribution service called Terra.

KUSM signed on for the first time on October 1, 1984, making Montana the last state to have its own PBS station, 14 years after Mississippi became the last state east of the Mississippi River with a PBS station within its borders. Since MSU didn't have enough funding at the time to support a public television station, station engineers switched to and from the signal of KUED in Salt Lake City for most PBS programming until 1987. Prior to 1984, Montana received PBS programming from KSPS-TV in Spokane, Washington; Prairie Public Television in North Dakota; KRMA-TV in Denver, Colorado; and KUED.

Also in 1987, KUSM was added to TCI's cable systems in central and eastern Montana, completely replacing KUED in that part of the state by 1990.

UM had won a construction permit for KUFM-TV in 1992, but had trouble getting on the air until 1996. UM and MSU joined forces to form Montana PBS, which broadcast for the first time as a network on New Year's Day 1997.

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Broadcast television in the Butte / Bozeman market (Nielsen DMA #194)

Local television stations
KXLF 4 / KBZK 7 (CBS/MTN, The CW on DT2) - KTVM 6 / K42BZ 42 (NBC) - KUSM 9 (PBS) - K11UJ (3ABN) - KWYB 18 / 28 (ABC) - KBTZ 24 (FOX/MNTV) - K34FI (NBC) - K45EB (TBN.) - KJCX-LP 40 / KHJT-LP 54 (TBN)

Local/Regional cable television channels
TVMT
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Broadcast television in the Missoula market (Nielsen DMA #167)

KPAX 8 / K18AJ 18 (CBS/MTN, The CW on DT2) - KUFM 11 (PBS) - KECI 13 / KCFW 9 (NBC) - KMMF 17 / 34 (Fox) - KTMF 23 / 42 (ABC) - K32EU 32 (PBS) - K42EO 42 (TBN) - K50CP 50 (COR) - KMTM-LP 61 (Ind.)
Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations
Reception may vary by geographical location
Spokane: KREM 2 (CBS) - KXLY 4 (ABC)
Lethbridge: CISA 7 (Global)
See also: Broadcast Television in Great Falls, Helena, and Spokane
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Broadcast television in the Billings market (Nielsen DMA #170)
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Broadcast television in the Helena market (Nielsen DMA #206)

KMTF 10 (The CW) - KTVH 12 (NBC) - KHBB 21 (ABC) - KXLH 25 (CBS/MTN) - KJJC 34 (JCTV) - K41CX 41 (TBN) - K44GE 44 (Ind) - K49EH 49 (PBS)
Broadcast television available on cable only:
KDVR 31 (FOX, Denver)
Regional cable television channels
TVMT
See also: Broadcast Television in Billings, Great Falls, and Missoula
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Broadcast television in the Great Falls market  (Nielsen DMA #191)

Local television stations
KRTV 3 (CBS / MTN, The CW on DT2) - KFBB 5 (ABC) - K08IU / K12DJ / K36DK / K63AQ / K65BR (Global) - KTGF 16 (Ind)
KLMN 26 (Fox) - K31IA 31 (TBN) - KBGF-LP 50 (NBC)

Broadcast television available on cable only:
KUSM 9 (PBS, Bozeman)

Regional cable television stations:
TVMT
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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
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PBS Member Stations in the state of Montana

KUSM 9 / KUFM 11 (Bozeman / Missoula) - K32EU 32* (Missoula)
*K32EU is a repeater of KSPS-TV, Spokane, Washington.
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC and Other stations in Montana