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KUHM-TV
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BrandingMontana PBS
Programming
NetworkMontana PBS
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerMontana State University
History
FoundedJuly 23, 1996
First air date
August 15, 1998(25 years ago)(1998-08-15)
Former call signs
  • KAQR (1996–1997)
  • KBCC (1997–1998)
  • KMTF (1998–2015)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:10 (VHF,1998–2009)
Call signmeaning
UHF Helena, Montana
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID68717
ERP43.4kW
HAAT697 m (2,287 ft)
Transmitter coordinates46°49′29.4″N111°42′15.6″W/ 46.824833°N 111.704333°W/46.824833; -111.704333
Translator(s)K11WM-D (11 VHF,Townsend)
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KUHM-TV(channel 10) is aPBSmembertelevision stationinHelena, Montana,United States. Owned byMontana State University(MSU), it is operated as part of theMontana PBSstate network (a joint venture with theUniversity of Montana(UM)). KUHM-TV's transmitter is located onHogback Mountain;master controland internal operations are based at the network's headquarters in the Visual Communications Building on the MSU campus inBozeman.

History

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KMTF's logo as a CW affiliate, used from September 18, 2006, through July 2, 2015.

The station was originally granted itsconstruction permiton July 23, 1996;[2]on September 16, it was assigned the call letters KAQR.[3]On October 1, 1997, the station changed its call letters to KBCC; on March 27, 1998, channel 10 took on the KMTF call sign which had been used prior in the central California region.[3]On August 15, 1998, the station started broadcasting as the localFoxaffiliate; KMTF also had a secondary affiliation withUPN.[4]On July 1, 2001, due to low ratings and revenue, the station dropped the Fox affiliation and became an affiliate ofPax TV;area cable systems quickly addedFoxnetto their lineups to continue carrying Fox programming.[5]After KMTF's affiliation agreement with Pax TV expired in July 2005, the station switched toThe WB;[6]the switch made Helena the eighth market in whichThe WB 100+ Station Group(a predominantly cable-only service that brought WB programming to smaller markets) was seen on an over-the-air station.[7]In September 2006, KMTF became the affiliate forThe CWand become part ofThe CW Plus,the successor of The WB 100+ Station Group.[8]

For most of its time as a commercial station, KMTF was owned by Rocky Mountain Broadcasting Company, which was 51% owned by Uhlmann/Latshaw Broadcasting[9](itself jointly owned by The Uhlmann Company and Latshaw Enterprises[10]until early 2014, when Uhlmann bought Latshaw's stake[11]) and 49% owned by Meridian Communications;[12]a $60,000 purchase of Uhlmann/Latshaw's stake by Meridian, proposed in 2006,[12]was dismissed by theFederal Communications Commission(FCC) on November 4, 2014.[13]From October 13, 1999, until August 15, 2005, Sunbelt Communications Company (now known asIntermountain West Communications Company), owner ofNBCaffiliateKTVH(channel 12), programmed KMTF under atime brokerage agreement;[14][15]the agreement had been assigned to Sunbelt by Meridian, who had operated KMTF since its 1998 launch.[14]Concurrent with the termination of the time brokerage agreement, Sunbelt entered into a joint sales agreement with Rocky Mountain, supplemented on August 30 with a shared services agreement.[14]Through Meridian, KMTF's ownership included the daughter of IWCC's owner and founder.[14]The arrangement was set up in such a way so as to circumvent FCC rules regarding ownership of competing stations by the same entity. However, as the original time brokerage agreement was made after November 5, 1996, it was not grandfathered after the FCC began to consider such agreements in excess of 15% to be attributable, and was thus required to be unwound by August 6, 2001; on October 9, 2014, IWCC agreed to contribute $40,000 to theUnited States Treasuryto settle the FCC's investigation into the time brokerage agreement.[15]

On May 7, 2014, Intermountain West Communications Company announced that it would sell KTVH-DT toGray Television.As part of the deal, Gray concurrently acquired KMTF outright through a failing station waiver.[16]The sale was completed on December 1.[17]

On July 1, 2015, Gray announced that it would sell KTVH toCordillera Communications,which owns CBS affiliateKXLH-LD(channel 9). KMTF was concurrently donated toMontana State Universityfor integration into theMontana PBSsystem.[18]The following day, KMTF dropped its CW affiliation and wentdark;[19]CW programming now airs on a subchannel of KTVH.[18]Montana State University changed the station's call letters to KUHM-TV on September 1, 2015, after the donation was completed.[20]KUHM-TV provides more-reliable reception in areas around Helena unable to receive K49EH-D channel 49, which provided Montana PBS programming to Helena before KMTF's conversion to KUHM-TV.

Subchannels

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The station's digital signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of KUHM-TV[21]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
10.1 1080i 16:9 KUHM-HD Main KUHM-TV programming /PBS
10.2 480i 4:3 KUHM-K PBS Kids
10.3 KUHM-CR Create
10.4 KUHM-W PBS World
10.5 KUHM-L TVMTsimulcast

References

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  1. ^"Facility Technical Data for KUHM-TV".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^"Application Search Details (1)".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.RetrievedJuly 10,2015.
  3. ^ab"Call Sign History".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.RetrievedJuly 10,2015.
  4. ^"FCC 398 Children's Television Programming Report".KidVid Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.October 8, 1998.RetrievedJuly 10,2015.
  5. ^"Helena loses its FOX TV station".Missoulian.Associated Press.July 1, 2001.RetrievedJuly 10,2015.
  6. ^Harrington, John (June 24, 2005)."Local TV station to join WB network".Independent Record.RetrievedJuly 10,2015.
  7. ^Romano, Allison (June 10, 2005)."Broadcasters Join The WB 100+".Broadcasting & Cable.RetrievedJuly 10,2015.
  8. ^"The CW Signs 30 New Affiliates".TelevisionWeek.March 28, 2006.RetrievedJuly 10,2015.
  9. ^"OWNERSHIP REPORT FOR COMMERCIAL BROADCAST STATIONS (Rocky Mountain Broadcasting Company)".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.November 1, 2013.RetrievedJuly 10,2015.
  10. ^"OWNERSHIP REPORT FOR COMMERCIAL BROADCAST STATIONS (Uhlmann/Latshaw Broadcasting, LLC)".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.November 1, 2013.RetrievedJuly 10,2015.
  11. ^"OWNERSHIP REPORT FOR COMMERCIAL BROADCAST STATIONS (Uhlmann/Latshaw Broadcasting, LLC)".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.March 11, 2014.RetrievedJuly 10,2015.
  12. ^abBIA Financial Networks (September 29, 2006)."Deals".Broadcasting & Cable.RetrievedJuly 10,2015.
  13. ^"Application Search Details (2)".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.RetrievedJuly 10,2015.
  14. ^abcd"Family Media Interests"(PDF).CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.December 2013.RetrievedJuly 11,2015.
  15. ^abLake, William T. (October 10, 2014)."Consent Decree"(PDF).Federal Communications Commission.RetrievedJuly 10,2015.
  16. ^"Gray Buys Three Montana Stations".TVNewsCheck.May 7, 2014.RetrievedMay 7,2014.
  17. ^Consummation Notice,CDBS Public Access,Federal Communications Commission,Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  18. ^ab"Gray in 4 New Deals, Closes 3 Earlier Ones".TVNewsCheck.July 1, 2015.RetrievedJuly 1,2015.
  19. ^"Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.July 7, 2015.RetrievedJuly 11,2015.
  20. ^"Media Bureau Call Sign Actions"(PDF).Federal Communications Commission.August 3, 2015.RetrievedAugust 3,2015.
  21. ^RabbitEars TV Query for KUHM
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