A behind-the-scenes look at KYUS-TV, Ch. 3, Miles City, MT, circa 1979.

[Route66Fan]

Here is a behind-the-scenes look at KYUS-TV, Ch. 3, Miles City, MT, ca. 1979. From an episode of "Real People", featuring the late Fred Willard.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

I remember watching this! Didn't someone else buy the station eventually and build it into a decent operation?

 

[Route66Fan]

I remember watching this! Didn't someone else buy the station eventually and build it into a decent operation?

Actually, KYUS-TV was sold to the then owners of KOUS-TV (Now KHMT-TV.), Ch. 4, in Hardin, MT, which was also a NBC affiliate, at the time as well, in 1984. In 1987, KOUS-TV & KYUS-TV switched to ABC & in 1993, KYUS-TV switched from simulcasting KOUS-TV, to simulcasting KSVI-TV, once KOUS-TV went off the air. In 1996, they became a Fox affiliate, possibly simulcasting KHMT-TV & then, in 1998, they switched back to NBC by simulcasting KULR-TV, Ch. 8, in Billings, MT, under a time brokerage agreement. There were also plans in the mid 1990's to make the TV station a full-time satellite of KXGN-TV, Ch. 5, in Glendive, MT.

 

[tvnut]

Back in the 1970s, I picked KYUS-3 up a handful of times via e-skip. Once it was during NBC's Monday night baseball series, and the picture was briefly good enough to see the ball. A local ad during the game was all slides (or telops). Along with the Real People feature, KYSU was featured once as the final story on NBC Nightly News, with John Chancellor signing off by saying, "Over to you, Miles City."

 

[installLSC]

David Rivenes, the original owner of KYUS, was a fascinating man. How can you not love someone who held a surfboarding tournament in Montana?