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KXGN airs a local newscast called ''Montana East'' |
KXGN airs a local newscast called ''Montana East'' weeknight evenings at 10:30PM. Emilie Boyles doubles as the station's sole reporter and editor. Former longtime personality Ed Agre was once profiled for his duties in this capacity.<ref name="Billingsgazette"/> All other "local" newscasts on KXGN are simulcasts from [[Billings, Montana|Billings]]' [[KTVQ]] (with the exception of their morning newscast), as an affiliate of the [[Montana Television Network]]. [[The Early Show]] from CBS is the only news on KXGN in the morning. |
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[[Image:40349013_1279eae246.jpg|thumb|right|300px|KXGN-TV's studios along South Douglas Street in Downtown Glendive, MT.]] |
[[Image:40349013_1279eae246.jpg|thumb|right|300px|KXGN-TV's studios along South Douglas Street in Downtown Glendive, MT.]] |
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Revision as of 00:13, 19 October 2007
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KXGN-TV channel 5 is a television station in Glendive, Montana, a primarily agricultural region in eastern Montana, which is the smallest of the 210 US Nielsen-designated broadcast television market areas in the United States[1]; the market is also the smallest in North America.[2] KXGN will celebrate it's 50th year on the air in November of 2007.
KXGN carries a portion of the CBS network feed, along with some NBC programming;[3] it is currently the only station to do so.[1] KXGN also offers programming from The Sportsman Channel during the late-night hours on weekends. KXGN also carried UPN programming during the overnight hours until UPN closed on September 15, 2006 to combine with The WB to form The CW network; currently CW programming is seen on cable-only channel CW Glendive (formerly KWZB). The market serves a total potential home-market audience of a mere five thousand households.[1]
KXGN-TV is owned by Glendive Broadcasting Corporation. Glendive Broadcasting also operates two of the three Glendive radio stations. KXGN (AM) 1400 and KDZN 96.5 FM have been owned by Glendive Broadcasting since the late 1970s and 1986 respectfully. Maryland-native Stephan Marks owns Glendive Broadcasting along with KYUS-TV in Miles City, Montana, WBKB-TV in Alpena, Michigan, and WBKP and WBUP in Marquette, Michigan.
News Programming
KXGN airs a local newscast called Montana East weeknight evenings at 10:30PM. Emilie Boyles doubles as the station's sole reporter and editor. Former longtime personality Ed Agre was once profiled for his duties in this capacity.[3] All other "local" newscasts on KXGN are simulcasts from Billings' KTVQ (with the exception of their morning newscast), as an affiliate of the Montana Television Network. The Early Show from CBS is the only news on KXGN in the morning.
Programming
Primetime
KXGN airs the entire CBS programming lineup from 6pm MT to 9pm MT. At 9pm MT, KXGN then airs NBC programming that is either airing at that time or recorded earlier that evening.
Daytime
Weekdays, KXGN carries The Early Show, The Price Is Right (at 9AM), and all CBS soaps, beginning at 10AM. NBC's one soap, Days of our Lives, airs at 2PM. KXGN's syndicated programming on weekdays consists of Judge Joe Brown at 8am, Judge Judy at 8:30am, Montel Williams at 3pm, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show at 4PM.
Weekends, KXGN carries CBS's The Early Show and KEWLopolis on Saturday mornings, with CBS News Sunday Morning and Face the Nation on Sunday mornings, mixed with syndicated programming.
Most of KXGN's sports, including NFL football, come from CBS. It is unknown at present if KXGN carries any sports from NBC.
Translators
Like many other Montana stations, KXGN relies heavily on a mix of broadcast translators and cable TV systems to extend its reach to more viewers.
All KXGN translators are in Montana.
- Baker: K10JP, K42GA
- Culbertson: K34GY
- Ekalaka: K09BE
- Plentywood: K44ID
- Plevna: K03HD, K09IV
- Poplar: K05KK
- Richey: K13JU
- Sidney: K13IG
- Terry Creek: K07EK
K13IG is the only translator owned by KXGN -- all others are either owned by local governments or television associations.
Transition to ATSC digital
KXGN was allocated ATSC TV channel 10 by the FCC in September, 2004[4] after receiving multiple extensions of the original May 1, 2002 deadline to go digital due to financial hardship.[5]
Obstacles to the digital transition include cost (estimated as of 2002 at slightly over $1 million for KXGN and two other stations owned by the same person), the limited number of households which would be able to receive the digital signal (as many depend on repeaters to receive TV at all) and the small number of ATSC-digital TV sets in use. If as of 2002 new analogue TV's outsold the expensive digital sets 50 to 1, few will be watching ATSC even where the signal is physically available.
The major obstacles which apply to the adoption of terrestrial digital TV elsewhere (limited amount of HD content, high cost relative to competition from free-to-air DVB satellite or subscription TV services) still apply, but are magnified by the small and widely geographically-distributed audience of a small-market station.
References
- ^ a b "Market information". Backchannelmedia. Retrieved 2007-03-25.
- ^ The Glendive market has 5,000 households; Canada's smallest market, Kenora, Ontario (with CJBN-TV as its only local broadcaster), has about 5,800 households.
- ^ a b "Glendive TV station is one-man operation". Billings Gazette. 2003-10-06. Retrieved 2007-03-25.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "FCC Report and Order for DTV Allotment" (PDF). 2004-09-23.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Unknown parameter|accessmonthday=ignored (help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - ^ S. Talwani. "Digital Television Coming...Slowly". Montana Journalism Review. Retrieved 2007-03-25.