Whatever happened to KYUS?

[DrBear]

I remember reading years ago about KYUS-TV in Miles City, Mont., in TV Guide. It was described as "the smallest TV station in America" with a mom-and-pop crew who did everything. (As I remember, it was an NBC affiliate). I don't see it listed any more. What happened? And with satellite stations being more likely for tiny markets, what would any of you call the smallest station in the country?

 

[KeithE]

> I remember reading years ago about KYUS-TV in Miles City,
> Mont., in TV Guide. It was described as "the smallest TV
> station in America" with a mom-and-pop crew who did
> everything. (As I remember, it was an NBC affiliate). I
> don't see it listed any more. What happened?

It's still on the air, but now as a satellite of KULR Ch. 8 Billings (NBC).

> And with satellite stations being more likely for tiny markets, what
> would any of you call the smallest station in the country?

My guess would one of the following:
KXGN-TV 5 Glendive MT (CBS/NBC)
KNOP-TV 2 North Platte NE (NBC)
WAGM-TV 8 Presque Isle ME (CBS/NBC/UPN)
One of the Alaska stations other than in Anchorage or Fairbanks.

 

[rugrats1]

> > And with satellite stations being more likely for tiny
> markets, what
> > would any of you call the smallest station in the country?
>
>
> My guess would one of the following:
> KNOP-TV 2 North Platte NE (NBC)

KNOP is actually a satellite of KHAS ch.5 in Hastings NE.

 

[KingDaevid]

> And with
> satellite stations being more likely for tiny markets, what
> would any of you call the smallest station in the country?

...full power, I could imagine WJFW/12(NBC) in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, being a possibility. There is, on a Class A level, KQEG-CA/23(UPN/FamilyNet) La Crescent, Minnesota (studios across the Mississippi River in La Crosse, Wisconsin), which carries local talk shows and high school sports events in addition to the entire UPN schedule and several syndicated programs, with FamilyNet as filler overnights and weekends...<P ID="signature">______________
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