Not Retro: Glendive - October 6, 2021

[PhillyNewsLover]

The smallest market in the US, with only one station and two network affiliations. All KXGN-DT1 newscasts are produced by Billings CBS affiliate KTVQ, while all KXGN-DT2 newscasts come from KULR. From Zap2it.

KXGN 5 - CBS Glendive
12:37 CBS Overnight News
4:00/4:30 CBS Morning News
5:00 The People's Court
6:00 CBS Mornings
8:00 Rachael Ray
9:00 The Price is Right
10:00 Let's Make a Deal
11:00 The Young and The Restless
12:00 News
12:30 The Bold and The Beautiful
1:00 The Talk
2:00 Dr. Phil
3:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
4:00/4:30 Judge Judy
5:00 CBS Evening News
5:30 News
6:00 Survivor
7:00 Tough as Nails
8:00 CSI: Vegas
9:00/9:30 Last Man Standing
10:00 News
10:35 Late Show with Stephen Colbert
11:37 Late Late Show with James Corden

KXGN 5.2 - NBC Glendive
12:37 NBC Nightly News
1:12 Today with Hoda and Jenna
2:00/2:30/3:00/3:30/4:00/4:30 Early Today
5:00 TMZ
5:30 Extra
6:00 News
7:00 Today
10:00 Today with Hoda and Jenna
11:00 The Kelly Clarkson Show
12:00 The People's Court
1:00 Days of our Lives
2:00/2:30 RightThisMinute
3:00 The Doctors
4:00 The Dr. Oz Show
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 Entertainment Tonight
7:00 Chicago Med
8:00 Chicago Fire
9:00 Chicago P.D.
10:00 News
10:34 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

 

[installLSC]

According to Wikipedia, KXGN was the country's last dual affiliate station until it switched to digital in 2009.
And if you're wondering, the wonders of digital make KXGN's production much better than you'd think

 

[Mr Tony]

According to Wikipedia, KXGN was the country's last dual affiliate station until it switched to digital in 2009.
And if you're wondering, the wonders of digital make KXGN's production much better than you'd think

While the title says it was from KXGN-DT2 its just a copy of the news from KULR Billings

KXGN has no local newscast anymore (hasnt since 2015). Newscasts on KXGN CBS are from KTVQ Billings (noon, 5:30 and 10pm weekdays, possibly 5:30 on weekends due to sports, and 10pm nightly)

 

[PhillyNewsLover]

Here's a newscast from 2004, that's actually from KXGN. It's quite the ride:

Currently, their only local production is Let's Talk About It. You can find an episode here:

 

[newsmark]

KXGN still airs CBS programming on the East Coast feed for much of the day. (Looking at the lineup, I think they technically take the Central Time zone feed when it's available, such as for CBS Mornings.)

That means prime time runs from 6-9 PM and they have syndicated programming from 9P-10P.

Before the switch to digital, they typically aired the third hour of NBC prime from 9P-10P. (There had to be exceptions when NBC had a movie or some other show that started before 9PM.)

 

[IM42A]

Here's a newscast from 2004, that's actually from KXGN. It's quite the ride:

Currently, their only local production is Let's Talk About It. You can find an episode here:

Now this is true local --- even "hyper-local" --- television! Something like this is the closest thing to what the FCC originally envisioned by doing channel allocations all throughout the US, rather than clustering everything into (mainly) metro markets. I don't think it was in the original plan, for, let's say, stations licensed to Belmont, Kannapolis, and Rock Hill, to become de facto Charlotte stations. Way back when, Camden SC had a UHF allocation, and 30 miles out from center city, it is a very different world from Columbia.

I'm reminded a little bit of WHKY-14 in Hickory NC, they do a nightly local newscast, they are part of the Charlotte market, yet their news concentrates on the "Unifour" four-county region around Hickory. It's nothing fancy, nothing slick, but it is "local" news, in perhaps its purest form. Here's a sample (I couldn't find entire newscasts):

The cable-only channel EKB-TV in Pikeville KY also does a good job along these lines. They have changed hands and became "Mountain Top Media", but I'm pretty sure they still do the news program, and at one time (may still) they repeated WLEX-18 news from Lexington. Good product, professionally done, nothing fancy, but provides decent local news coverage.