KMMF

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KMMF
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City Missoula, Montana
Channels
Programming
AffiliationsDefunct
Ownership
Owner
History
FoundedApril 25, 2000
First air date
2002;22 years ago (2002)
Last air date
June 12, 2009;14 years ago (2009-06-12)
Fox (2002-2009)
MyNetworkTV (secondary, 2006-2009)
Call sign meaning
Missoula, Montana, Fox
Technical information
Facility ID 81348
ERP 50 kW
HAAT 628 m (2,060 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 46°48′8″N113°58′19″W / 46.80222°N 113.97194°W / 46.80222; -113.97194
Translator(s) KMMF-LP 34 Kalispell

KMMF, UHF analog channel 17, was a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Missoula, Montana, United States. Founded on April 25, 2000, the station was owned by Equity Broadcasting. The station's signal was repeated in Kalispell on KMMF-LP channel 34.

KMMF added MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliation in September 2006.

KMMF was fed from Equity's hub in Little Rock, Arkansas, by March 2008. Technical issues dramatically increased in number after this was implemented.

At auction on April 16, 2009, Max Media bought the Fox affiliations and certain programming assets, but not the broadcasting facilities, of KMMF and the rest of Equity's Montana Fox station system. [1]

Demise

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, [2] the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, at the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KMMF would have been required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut").

As of December 2008, this station was scheduled to go dark in 2009. According to the station's DTV status report, "On December 8, 2008, the licensee's parent corporation filed a petition for bankruptcy relief under chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code... This station must obtain post-petition financing and court approval before digital facilities may be constructed. The station will cease analogue broadcasting on February 17, 2009, regardless of whether digital facilities are operational by that date. The station will file authority to remain silent if so required by the FCC." [3]

While the DTV Delay Act extended this deadline to June 12, 2009, Equity had applied for an extension of the digital construction permit in order to retain the broadcast license after the station goes dark.[ citation needed ]

On July 1, 2009, Max Media established a new Fox affiliate on the digital subchannel of its ABC affiliates, KTMF (channel 23) in Missoula and KTMF-LD in Kalispell. [4] KMMF was shut down on June 12, 2009 when analog broadcasting ended. On that date or shortly thereafter, Equity fully returned the KMMF and KMMF-LP licenses to the FCC, who then deleted both call signs. [5] [6]

Earlier, it had been reported that only cable subscribers could watch Fox broadcasts in western Montana. [7] It is unclear from the story what Fox affiliate they received. At the time, there was only one operating Fox station in the state, KHMT (channel 4) in the Billings area (licensed to Hardin). The network could have exported the signal from another city, possibly Denver (KDVR, channel 31) or Salt Lake City (KSTU, channel 13); additionally, at least in Great Falls, Equity arranged for KLMN (channel 26), which shut down for similar reasons to KMMF, to remain on cable as that market's Max Media station, KFBB-TV (channel 5), prepared to launch its Fox subchannel. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Web Page Under Construction".
  2. ↑ "Final DTV Channel Plan from FCC97-115".
  3. ↑ FCC DTV status report
  4. ↑ "FOX Coming to Max Media of Montana Stations". ABC Montana. June 3, 2009. Archived from the original on June 6, 2009. Retrieved June 30, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Station Search Details (DKMMF)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission . Retrieved July 22, 2009.
  6. ↑ "Station Search Details (DKMMF-LP)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission . Retrieved July 22, 2009.
  7. ↑ Missoula Fox Affiliate Doesn't Go Digital - at Least Not Yet
  8. ↑ Ecke, Richard (July 11, 2009). "Fox signal returning; ABC gets upgrade". Great Falls Tribune . Archived from the original on July 18, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
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