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The MTN News consisted of 15 minutes of network news from Great Falls and another 15 minutes locally produced at each station. Today in Montana, a local talk show hosted by Norma Ashby since 1962, also began to air across the network. [28] In 1973, a new studio facility was completed, and KRTV was upgraded to the maximum power of 100,000 watts ...
This caused KRTV's news ratings to swoon; after several years with KRTV on top, KFBB took the lead in the market and was able to market itself as a more local newscast than its competitor. [9] Conversely, KTVQ made some inroads on dominant KULR-TV. [15] KULR-TV anchor Dave Rye argued that the Lilly approach to news was too "big-city" for ...
KRTV was a television station on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 17 in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. The first television station in Arkansas, KRTV operated from April 1953 to March 1954. The first television station in Arkansas, KRTV operated from April 1953 to March 1954.
In 1984, KRTV (channel 3), which had served as a dual affiliate of NBC and CBS since 1968, [2] reduced its carriage of NBC programs as the Montana Television Network, of which it was a part, adopted primary CBS affiliation statewide. [3] KRTV and ABC affiliate KFBB-TV (channel 5) continued to air some NBC programs in the city. [4]
The first television station to operate in Arkansas, KRTV (channel 17), signed on from Little Rock on April 4, 1953; however, the station faltered mainly because it transmitted on the then-unviable UHF band, as television sets were not required to be manufactured with built-in UHF tuners at the time of its sign-on (requiring a more expensive ...
KFBB-TV/KHBB-LP logos, used through 2008. KFBB-TV began broadcasting on March 21, 1954. As the first television station in Great Falls, KFBB-TV was affiliated with all four major networks, and would broadcast programming from all three until KRTV signed on and took the NBC affiliation in October 1958.
The station's news ratings declined as KTVM and its all-local news broadcasts picked up viewers. [55] At that time, KXLF-TV began preparing to produce full-length local newscasts. The change was scheduled for the start of 1989 but was clouded by the station's dismissal of news director Pat Kearney , a Butte native who had worked at KXLF-TV ...
The network news was presented from Great Falls, as that was the only place that could receive feeds from all of the MTN stations at the same time; the Billings, Butte, and (from 1977) Missoula stations presented local news inserts into the statewide program. [27] However, in Billings, KTVQ had long been the second-place news finisher behind ...