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Retro: Billings, Montana October 9, 1964 as well as 1969 & 1974

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mleach

Billings, Montana area TV listings
From the Billings Gazette


Friday, October 9, 1964.....

KOOK-TV channel 2 ( CBS & ABC )
6:55 The Daily Word
7:00 Sunrise Semester
7:30 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Mike Wallace News
8:30 I Love Lucy
9:00 Andy of Mayberry
9:30 The Real McCoys
10:00 Love of Life
10:30 Search For Tomorrow
10:45 Guiding Light
11:00 Peter Gunn
11:30 As The World Turns
Noon Password
12:30 House Party
1:00 To Tell The Truth
1:25 Four Star News
1:30 The Edge of Night
2:00 Secret Storm
2:30 Jack Benny
3:00 The Price is Right
3:30 A Visit with Ava
4:00 Father Knows Best
4:30 Pioneers
5:00 Yancy Derringer
5:30 Rawhide
6:30 Four Star Final News
7:00 Political of the Sea
7:30 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
8:30 Gomer Pyle USMC
9:00 Addams Family
9:30 The Fugitve
10:30 Phillips 66 News
11:00 Peter Gunn
12:00 Cardinal News
12:15 The Daily Word


KULR-TV channel 8 ( NBC & ABC )
6:00 Salute to Agriculture
6:30 Understanding Our Word
7:00 Today Show
8:00 Make Room For Daddy
8:30 Word for Word
8:55 NBC News
9:00 Concentration
9:30 Jeopardy
10:00 Say When
10:30 Truth or Conseqences
11:00 A Day in Court
11:30 Let's Make A Deal
Noon Cartoons
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Another Word
1:30 You Don't Say
2:00 Match Game
2:25 NBC News
2:30 Missing Links
3:00 Get The Message
3:30 Cartoons
4:00 Herb's Happy Show
5:00 Shindig
5:30 Huntley-Brinkley
6:00 Montana News
6:30 International Showtime
7:30 Bob Hope Presents
8:30 Jack Benny
9:00 Jack Parr
10:00 Report at Ten
10:05 Valentine's Day
10:35 Tonight Show
11:00 Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremonies



Thursday, October 9, 1969

KOOK-TV channel 2 (CBS )
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Jack LaLanne
9:30 Jackie's Journal
10:00 Where The Heart Is
10:25 CBS News
10:30 Search For Tomorrow
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 As The World Turns
Noon Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
12:30 Mid-Day Report
1:00 Secret Storm
1:30 Edge of Night
2:00 Gomer Pyle USMC
2:30 Mike Douglas
4:00 Beverly Hillbillies
4:30 CBS News
5:00 Three Star News
5:30 F Troop
6:00 Jim Nabors
7:00 Thursday Night Movie ( "Fate Is The Hunter" )
9:00 Billy Graham
10:00 Four Star News
10:30 Merv Griffin


KLUR channel 8 ( ABC & NBC )
7:00 The Today Show
8:00 ABC Cartoons
8:30 Concentration
9:00 Sale of the Century
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10:00 Jeopardy
10:30 Galloping Gourmet
11:00 Dream House
11:30 Let's Make A Deal
Noon Newlywed Game
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 General Hospital
1:30 One Life to Live
2:00 That Girl
2:30 Bewitched
3:00 Dating Game
3:30 Dark Shadows
4:00 ABC Cartoons
4:30 Report at 4:30
5:00 Huntley-Brinkley
5:30 The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
6:00 Julia
6:30 Daniel Boone
7:30 Ironside
8:30 Dragnet
9:00 Dean Martin
10:00 Report at Ten
10:30 The Tonight Show



Wednesday, October 9, 1974

KTVQ-TV channel 2......( CBS & NBC )
6:00 CBS News
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Today In Montana
8:30 Gambit
9:00 Now You See It
9:30 Love of Life
10:00 Jackpot
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:55 NBC News
11:00 Young & The Restless
11:30 As The World Turns
Noon Days Of Our Lives
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Another World
1:30 Match Game '74
2:00 Tattletales
2:30 Mike Douglas
4:00 Truth or Consquences
4:30 CBS News
5:00 NBC News
5:30 MTN News
6:00 Bonanza
7:00 Little House
8:00 Manhunter
9:00 CBS Special "Bing Crosby & His Friends"
10:00 MTN News
10:30 The Tonight Show
Mid The Tomorrow Show
1:00 News


KLUR channel 8 ( ABC & NBC )
6:45 Daybreak
7:00 Today Show
9:00 High Rollers
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10:00 Password
10:30 Split Second
11:00 All My Children
11:30 Lets Make A Deal
Noon KLUR-8 News
1:00 General Hosptial
1:30 One Life To Live
2:00 $10,000 Pyramid
2:30 Name That Tune
3:00 Winning Streak
3:30 Jeopardy
4:00 Newlywed Game
4:30 Brady Bunch
5:00 ABC News
5:30 KLUR-8 News
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 That's My Mama
7:30 ABC Wednesday Movie "Locusts"
9:00 Get Christie Love
10:00 KLUR-8 News
10:30 Bob Hope Special
11:30 Mission Impossible
 
So any idea when channel 6 ABC would sign on? I know KHMT-DT (FOX) channel 4 of Hardin, MT came on much later.
 
Nice half hour newscasts in '64 in small Billings. Many larger markets couldn't match that!
 
KML-224 said:
So any idea when channel 6 ABC would sign on? I know KHMT-DT (FOX) channel 4 of Hardin, MT came on much later.
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Other way around. KHMT signed on as KOUS November 26, 1980, taking the NBC affiliation. They changed to KHMT on March 20, 1995.

KSVI didn't sign on until January 8, 1993, more than 12 years later. They were originally to be known as KPQD, but changed calls two months before sign-on. When they signed on, they took the ABC affiliation from KULR, KOUS changed to Fox, and KULR took over the NBC affiliation.
 
So today it's 2 (CBS), 4 (FOX), 6 (ABC) and 8 (NBC). Did they ever have a PBS affiliate or an analog UHF station in the market?
 
KML-224 said:
So today it's 2 (CBS), 4 (FOX), 6 (ABC) and 8 (NBC). Did they ever have a PBS affiliate or an analog UHF station in the market?
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No.

There is a permit for a satellite of Missoula's PBS KUFM-TV. Calls are KBGS-TV and it's on channel 16.

FWIW KHMT is licensed to Hardin and transmits from roughly 20 miles east of Billings.
 
w9wi said:
KML-224 said:
So today it's 2 (CBS), 4 (FOX), 6 (ABC) and 8 (NBC). Did they ever have a PBS affiliate or an analog UHF station in the market?
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No.

There is a permit for a satellite of Missoula's PBS KUFM-TV. Calls are KBGS-TV and it's on channel 16.
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KBGS applied for its license last June, so I'm assuming it's up and running now.

If you meant full-power stations, then w9wi is correct. However, there are nine LP UHF stations licensed to Billings, including PBS station K20HB, which signed on around Thanksgiving 2004. Of course, that doesn't mean that nine LP UHF stations are actually serving Billings, as three are owned by entities that have phantom stations in my state, i.e., stations that are fully licensed, but don't put out a watchable signal. If KBGS really is on the air, K20HB may well be silent also, although Montana St Univ has not filed a silent STA.
 
Interesting those Billings stations signed on early enough in the morning in 1964, while the stations in Traverse City/Cadillac didn't sign on until much later in the day, according to the listings I recently posted.

A major absence in that market in 1974 is TPIR.
 
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