| Great Falls, Montana | |
|---|---|
| City of license | Great Falls, Montana |
| Branding | KRTV: KRTV3 (general) KXLH-LD: KXLH 9 (general) Montana's News Station (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Fair. Accurate. To the Point. |
| Channels | Digital: 7 (VHF) |
| Subchannels | 3.1 CBS/MTN 3.2 The CW |
| Translators | KXLH-LD 9 Helena (see article for others) |
| Affiliations | CBS/MTN |
| Owner | Evening Post Publishing Company (KRTV Communications, Inc.) |
| First air date | October 5, 1958 |
| Call letters' meaning | KRTV: K GReat Falls TeleVision KXLH-LP: KXLF Helena (based on original parent station KXLF-TV) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 3 (VHF, 1958-2009) |
| Former affiliations | NBC (primary until 1969) |
| Transmitter power | 28.5 kW |
| Height | 150 m |
| Facility ID | 35567 |
| Website | www.krtv.com |
KRTV is a television station in Great Falls, Montana, broadcasting on digital channel 7 (PSIP channel 3) as an affiliate of CBS. The station is owned by Evening Post Publishing Company. The station is part of the Evening Post's Montana Television Network, a network of Montana CBS stations.
Contents |
KRTV began broadcast on June 27, 1958. That same day, high winds destroyed its broadcasting antenna, and the station was off the air until October 5, 1958.[1] The station was primarily an NBC affiliate with some ABC programming. When KFBB-TV took on a primary ABC affiliation in February 1966, KRTV started carrying CBS programming; it replaced KFBB as part of the Skyline Network (now the MTN). Over the next ten years KRTV offered more and more of CBS and less and less of NBC; the amount of CBS programming exceeded that of NBC in the summer of 1969, which meant that KRTV was now a primary affiliate of CBS-and still is. The station became a full-time CBS affiliate in 1976, when KTCM (now KTVH in Helena) expanded its coverage to become (until 1986) the default NBC affiliate in a large part of Montana, including Great Falls.
KRTV's programming is also seen on KXLH-LD channel 9 in Helena -- programming is similar to KRTV's schedule, other than local ads and weather segments. For many years, KXLH was a semi-satellite of sister station KXLF-TV in Butte, but in 2005 KRTV became its parent station. KXLH also has its own Weekday 5:30 and 10 p.m. newscast with a separate anchor, which was introduced in 2010. KXLH was previously known as KXLH-LP channel 25 -- the station would later flash cut and relocate to channel 9 in 2010.
KRTV offers The CW on its digital signal and is known as Great Falls CW. The subchannel is not seen on KXLH, due to an existing CW affiliate in Helena, KMTF.
KRTV/KXLH news anchors
Great Falls news reporters
Helena news reporters
STORMTracker Weather team
MTN sports team
The KRTV callsign was originally used for a UHF station on Channel 17 in Little Rock, Arkansas, affiliated with both CBS and NBC, that was Arkansas' first TV station when it signed on in 1953. However, it went off the air a year later as VHF stations KARK-TV and KTHV were preparing to take its network affiliations. The local ABC affiliate, KATV (previously of Pine Bluff), then moved to Little Rock and took over its studio until it burned down in 1957.
Coincidentally, KRTV isn't the only station in Great Falls whose callsign was once used in Arkansas; its competitor KLMN bears the original call letters of Fort Smith station KFTA-TV.
|
||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||