KHMT

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KHMT
KHMT logo.png
City Hardin, Montana
Channels
BrandingFox 4
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner Mission Broadcasting, Inc.
Operator Nexstar Media Group
KSVI
History
First air date
November 26, 1980
(43 years ago) (1980-11-26)
Former call signs
KOUS-TV (1980–1995)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 4 (VHF, 1980–2009)
  • Independent (1980–1982)
  • NBC (secondary 1980–1982, primary 1982–1987)
  • ABC (1987–1993)
  • Dark (1993–1995)
  • UPN (secondary, c. 1997–2006)
Call sign meaning
Hardin, Montana
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 47670
ERP 1,000 kW
HAAT 247.5 m (812 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 45°44′25″N108°8′20.3″W / 45.74028°N 108.138972°W / 45.74028; -108.138972
Translator(s) see § Translators
Links
Public license information
Website www.yourbigsky.com

KHMT (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Hardin, Montana, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Billings area. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting, which maintains joint sales and shared services agreements with Nexstar Media Group, owner of dual ABC/CW affiliate KSVI (channel 6), for the provision of certain services. Both stations share studios on South 24th Street West in Billings, while KHMT's transmitter is located in unincorporated southeastern Yellowstone County (southeast of Indian Arrow).

Contents

Mid-Rivers Communications (based in Circle, Montana) carries KHMT on cable in Glendive, Montana (the smallest DMA in the U.S. according to Nielsen), as that market has no local Fox affiliate of its own. [2] [3]

History

The station signed on November 26, 1980, as KOUS-TV, [4] owned by a company that shared two stockholders with KYUS-TV (channel 3) in Miles City. [5] In 1982, KOUS became a primary NBC affiliate, which Billings lacked at the time; while the station already carried some NBC programming, it had primarily been an independent station. [6] Since 1968, NBC had largely been relegated to secondary clearances on CBS affiliate KTVQ (channel 2) and ABC affiliate KULR-TV (channel 8)—as was PBS until 1984. Billings was one of the last markets in the nation to receive full service from all three networks. In 1984, the ownership of KOUS and KYUS was formally consolidated when KOUS' owners bought KYUS for $200,000; afterward, KYUS, which had been a separate station, became a satellite of KOUS. [7] This created an instance of a satellite station older than its parent, as KYUS signed on in 1969.

In 1987, NBC chose to move its affiliation from KOUS-TV to KULR-TV (which had been a primary affiliate of the network from 1958 to 1968) effective that August; [8] at that time, the stations swapped affiliations, and channel 4 picked up KULR's former ABC affiliation. [9] That September, KOUS' programming began to be simulcast in Bozeman on new station KCTZ. [10] Shortly afterward, the station's owner changed its name from KOUS-TV, Inc. to Big Horn Communications. [10]

KOUS-TV's tower was located 18 miles (29 km) east of Billings, which resulted in difficult reception in portions of the city; [11] [12] as a result, in 1987, [13] the station established a translator, K25BP channel 25, in Billings. [11] Big Horn subsequently obtained a construction permit for channel 6 in Billings (a channel that was originally intended to be used on a noncommercial basis in Miles City before being reallocated to Billings). [11] On January 8, 1993, KOUS-TV signed off from channel 4, and the KOUS intellectual unit moved to channel 6 as KSVI, which inherited KOUS' ABC affiliation. [12] KOUS' satellite stations, KYUS-TV and KCTZ, immediately became satellites of KSVI; [14] [15] translator K25BP also began to carry channel 6's programming. [11] (KYUS is now a satellite of KULR-TV, while KCTZ is now KBZK, a satellite of KXLF-TV in Butte.)

The following year, Big Horn sold the channel 4 license to the National Indian Media Foundation, [16] which entered into a local marketing agreement with KSVI. [17] The agreement allowed channel 4 to resume broadcasting August 16, 1995, as Fox affiliate KHMT, operating from the same tower it had used as KOUS. [12] [17] [18] Under the foundation's ownership, KHMT claimed to be the only full power television station to have 100 percent Native American ownership; [17] the station was also the first primary Fox affiliate in Montana. [19] Between 1991 and 1994, Foxnet served as the network's cable-only affiliate for the Billings market; this ended when KSVI became a secondary affiliate of Fox, which lasted for approximately one year. [20] By 1997, KHMT had added a secondary affiliation with UPN, [21] shared with KSVI; [22] this continued [23] until that network shut down in 2006.

Wolf Mountain Broadcasting, the subsidiary of the National Indian Media Foundation that became the station's licensee in 1997, [24] sold KHMT to VHR Broadcasting in 2002. [25] In 2003, Mission Broadcasting acquired the station from VHR; [26] [27] the sale coincided with the merger of Quorum Broadcasting (which by then owned KSVI) with Nexstar. [28]

News operation

KOUS-TV first started a news operation in 1982; this newscast was short-lived and was eventually canceled. [12] As KHMT, another news operation, shared with sister station KSVI, was launched on April 18, 2002; [29] after 18 months, the newscasts were canceled in September 2003, following Nexstar taking control of the stations. [28] Though the news operation had won Montana Broadcasters Association and Associated Press awards during its run, it was not successful in the ratings: [30] KHMT's prime time newscast reportedly pulled in only 3 percent viewing shares, putting it behind KTVQ and KULR in a distant third. At the time, Nexstar said ending the news operation would mean the difference between a profit and a loss. Local officials were also thrown off by KHMT reporters, who were aggressive about their news coverage and questioning in a manner not previously known in the state among other news operations. [28]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KHMT [31]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
4.1 720p 16:9 KHMT-DTMain KHMT programming / Fox
4.2 480i CourtTV Court TV
4.3Laff Laff
4.4Ion Ion Television

Translators

Analog-to-digital conversion

KHMT's broadcasts became digital-only, effective June 12, 2009. [32]

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