| KMOT: Minot, North Dakota KUMV: Williston, North Dakota |
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| Branding | KMOT-TV/KUMV-TV NBC North Dakota |
| Slogan | The News Leader |
| Channels | Digital: KMOT: 10 (VHF) Virtual: 10 (PSIP) Digital: KUMV: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 8 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 10.1/8.1 NBC (HDTV) |
| Translators | K13PL Glendive MT (repeats KUMV) |
| Affiliations | NBC |
| Owner | Hoak Media Corporation (Hoak Media of Dakota License, LLC) |
| First air date | KMOT: January 23, 1958 KUMV: February 6, 1957 |
| Call letters' meaning |
KMOT: MinOT Upper Missouri Valley |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: KMOT: 10 (VHF, 1958-2009) KUMV: 8 (VHF, 1957-2009) |
| Former affiliations | Secondary: ABC (1958-1986) |
| Transmitter power | KMOT: 7.69 kW KUMV: 6 kW |
| Height | KMOT: 207 m KUMV: 323 m |
| Facility ID | KMOT: 41425 KUMV: 41429 |
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| Website | www.kumv.com |
KMOT, channel 10, is an NBC affiliate located in Minot, North Dakota. The station serves the northern half of the Western North Dakota television market. It is owned by Hoak Media Corporation of Dallas, Texas.
Along with KFYR-TV in Bismarck, KMOT is one of two full-fledged stations in the NBC North Dakota network, which covers most of central and western North Dakota, along with parts of South Dakota and Montana.
While KMOT identifies as a station in its own right, it is generally considered to be a semi-satellite of KFYR-TV in Bismarck, North Dakota. It rebroadcasts almost all of KFYR-TV's syndicated programming, but produces its own newscasts and airs its own commercials and station identifications.. Master control and some internal operations of KMOT and KUMV are based at the facilities of KFYR in Bismarck.
KMOT operates a semi-satellite, KUMV-TV, channel 8, in Williston, which serves the northwestern portion of the state. KUMV also identifies as a station in its own right, but largely simulcasts KMOT. However, it airs its own partially-separate newscasts and commercials. KUMV's programming is repeated on low-powered translator K13PL in Glendive, Montana.
The over-the-air signals of KMOT and KUMV reach portions of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, but are no longer available on any cable systems there.
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KUMV signed on February 6, 1957. The Upper Missouri Valley Television Corporation won the initial license in 1955, but soon afterward the Federal Communications Commission collapsed all of central and western North Dakota into one giant television market. Accordingly, the station was sold to the Meyer family of Bismarck, owners of KFYR-TV, just before it signed on. It was a semi-satellite of KFYR for a year, until it became a semi-satellite of KMOT.
KMOT signed on January 23, 1958[1] as the third station in the Meyer group.
Until KBMY/KMCY signed on in 1986, the Meyer stations carried a secondary affiliation with ABC. Until KXMD signed on in 1969, KUMV carried CBS on a per-program basis.
In the late 1970s, KUMV became one of the first stations to be transmitted via terrestrial cable television into most of Saskatchewan; it even maintained a sales office in Saskatoon, as did KXMD and ABC affiliate KFBB-TV of Great Falls, Montana. This arrangement continued until 1986 when the signal was replaced by a satellite signal from WDIV, the NBC affiliate in Detroit.
The Meyers sold off their broadcast holdings in 1997, with the television stations going to Sunrise Television Corporation. Sunrise sold them to The Wicks Group of Companies of New York City in 2002.
Hoak Media Corporation bought KFYR-TV, KMOT, KUMV, and KQCD in July 2006, as well as KVLY-TV and KXJB-TV (LMA with Catamount Broadcasting) of Fargo and KSFY of Sioux Falls and its satellite stations. On November 17, 2006, the sale was approved by the FCC.
On January 19, 2009, KMOT began operation as a digital-only station on its existing channel frequency. KUMV began broadcasting digital-only on February 16, 2009.[1]
KMOT produces its own newscasts from Monday through Friday weekdays at 6 pm and 10 pm, and rebroadcasts KFYR-TV's other newscasts.
KUMV airs its own newscasts from Monday through Friday at 6 pm and 10 pm. The first 10 minutes (which includes regional news and weather) originate at KFYR in Bismarck. KUMV has its own news and sports anchor who fill the remaining 20 minutes. It simulcasts KFYR's other newscasts.
From 2002 to 2007, KMOT was forced to cut its newscasts to 20 minutes while simulcasting the first 10 minutes of KFYR-TV's 6 pm and 10 pm newscasts, much as KUMV does now. In January 2007, KMOT began broadcasting a full half-hour of news at 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m once again. It also added a weatherman and photographer/reporter to the staff.
The stations occasionally share stories with co-owned KVLY. The five stations simulcast key North Dakota sport events under the NBC North Dakota brand name and share certain equipment, such as remote broadcasting vehicles.
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