KULR-TV

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KULR-TV / KYUS-TV
KULR: Billings, Montana KYUS: Miles City, Montana
Branding	KULR 8 News
Slogan	Working in the Spirit of Montana
Channels	Analog: KULR: 8 (VHF) KYUS: 3 (VHF) Digital: KULR: 11 (VHF) KYUS: 13 (VHF)
Affiliations	NBC
Owner	KULR: Max Media, LLC KYUS: Stephan Marks (KULR: MMM License II, LLC KYUS: KYUS-TV Broadcasting Corporation)
First air date	KULR: March 15, 1958 KYUS: 1969[1]
Call letters’ meaning	KULR: Color KYUS: cayuse, a type of Native American pony
Former callsigns	KULR: KGHL-TV (1958-1963)
Former affiliations	KULR: NBC (1958-1980) ABC (1980-1986)
Transmitter Power	KULR: 316 kW (analog) 16 kW (digital) KYUS: 10.5 kW (analog) 2.9 kW (digital)
Height	KULR: 229 m (analog) 191 m (digital) KYUS: 31 m (analog) 30 m (digital)
Facility ID	KULR: 35724 KYUS: 5237
Transmitter Coordinates	KULR: 45°45′35.5″N, 108°27′17.4″W KYUS: 46°25′34.6″N, 105°51′40″W
Website	www.kulr8.com

KULR-TV is a NBC affiliate broadcasting on channel 8 (Cable channel 9) in Billings, Montana. Its first broadcast was in March 15, 1958 as KGHL-TV. The callsign was changed to KULR in 1963 and it is still affiliated with NBC (though during 1980 to circa 1983, it was an ABC affiliate, while KOUS held the NBC affiliation). KULR is currently-owned by Max Media. In Billings, KULR also operates cable-only CW affiliate, KWBM.

KULR's programming and schedule is also seen on KYUS-TV in Miles City, Montana; that station is owned and operated by Maryland businessman Stephan Marks, who also owns KXGN-TV in Glendive, Montana, WBKB-TV in Alpena, Michigan, and WBKP and WBUP in Marquette, Michigan. KULR programs and operates the station on Marks' behalf. Previously, KYUS was notorious for being the smallest network affiliate in America, which, at one time, featured a man who did the news, sports, weather and reporting himself -- he was also featured in the late-1970s on NBC's Real People and in TV Guide for his career. During the 1980s, KYUS became mainly a satellite station in the 1980s, first with KOUS, then with KULR, after KOUS flipped to Fox as KHMT.

Contents 1 Old KYUS Screenshots 2 Notable staff 3 See also 4 External links 5 References

[edit] Old KYUS Screenshots

These old screenshots pertain to a period when KYUS, now a KULR-satellite, was a satellite of KOUS (now KHMT).

Promo for Remington Steele on KOUS/KYUS.

Promo for Creature Features on KOUS/KYUS.

[edit] Notable staff

• Patty Souza, Now at KXTV ABC in Sacramento, Ca
• Conrad Burns, United States Senator from Montana, worked as a farm reporter here.

[edit] See also

• KWBM (Billings)

[edit] External links

• KULR 8 official site
• maxmontana.com
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KULR
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KYUS
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KULR-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KYUS-TV

[edit] References

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Billings market (Nielsen DMA #170) KTVQ 2 (CBS/MTN, The CW on DT2) - KHMT 4 (FOX) - KSVI 6 / K25BP 25 (ABC) - KULR 8 / KYUS 3 (NBC) - K20HB 20 (PBS) Local/Regional cable television channels Community 7 - KWBM Cable Channel 11 (The CW) - TVMT

v • d • e NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Montana KXGN 5 (Glendive) - KULR 8 / KYUS 3 (Billings / Miles City) - KTVH 12 / KBGF-LP (Helena / Great Falls) - KECI 13 / KTVM 6 / KCFW 9 (Missoula / Butte / Kalispell) - K13PL (Glendive) See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, PBS and Other stations in Montana