KRTV

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KRTV

Great Falls, Montana
Channels Analog: 3 (VHF)

Digital: 7 (VHF)
Translators KXLH-LP 25 Helena
(see article for others)
Affiliations CBS/MTN
The CW (DT2)
Owner Evening Post Publishing Company
(KRTV Communications, Inc.)
First air date October 5, 1958
Former affiliations NBC (primary until 1969)
Transmitter Power 100 kW (analog)
28.5 kW (digital)
Height 180 m (analog)
150 m (digital)
Facility ID 35567
Transmitter Coordinates 47°32′7.5″N, 111°17′5.5″W
Website www.krtv.com

KRTV is a television station in Great Falls, Montana, broadcasting locally on channel 3 as an affiliate of CBS. The station is owned by Evening Post Publishing Company. The station is part of the Evening Post's Montana Television Network, a network of Montana CBS stations.

KRTV's programming is also seen on KXLH-LP channel 25 in Helena -- programming is similar to KRTV's schedule, other than local ads and weather segments. For many years, KXLH was a semi-satellite of sister station KXLF-TV in Butte, but in 2007 KRTV became its parent station.

KRTV offers The CW on its digital signal and is known as Great Falls CW.

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Further information: KATV

The KRTV callsign was originally used for a UHF station on Channel 17 in Little Rock, Arkansas, affiliated with both CBS and NBC, that was Arkansas' first TV station when it signed on in 1953. However, it went off the air a year later as VHF stations KARK-TV and KTHV were preparing to take its network affiliations. The local ABC affiliate, KATV (previously of Pine Bluff), then moved to Little Rock and took over its studio until it burned down in 1957.

Ironically, KRTV isn't the only station in Great Falls whose callsign was once used in Arkansas; its competitor KLMN bears the original call letters of Fort Smith station KFTA-TV.

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Current intro for KRTV's newscast open.

Current intro for KXLH's newscast open.

Current opening for KRTV's newscasts.

Current opening for KXLH's newscasts.

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Broadcast television in the Great Falls market  (Nielsen DMA #191)

Local television stations
KRTV 3 (CBS / MTN, The CW on DT2) - KFBB 5 (ABC) - K08IU / K12DJ / K36DK / K63AQ / K65BR (Global) - KTGF 16 (Ind)
KLMN 26 (Fox) - K31IA 31 (TBN) - KBGF-LP 50 (NBC)

Broadcast television available on cable only:
KUSM 9 (PBS, Bozeman)

Regional cable television stations:
TVMT
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Broadcast television in the Helena market (Nielsen DMA #206)

KMTF 10 (The CW) - KTVH 12 (NBC) - KHBB 21 (ABC) - KXLH 25 (CBS/MTN) - KJJC 34 (JCTV) - K41CX 41 (TBN) - K44GE 44 (Ind) - K49EH 49 (PBS)
Broadcast television available on cable only:
KDVR 31 (FOX, Denver)
Regional cable television channels
TVMT
See also: Broadcast Television in Billings, Great Falls, and Missoula
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CBS / MTN Network Affiliates in the state of Montana
See also: ABC, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Montana
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CW Network Affiliates in the state of Montana
See also: ABC, CBS, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Montana