KHMT
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Hardin/Billings, Montana United States |
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| Branding | Fox 4 |
| Channels |
Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 4 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | Fox (1995–present) |
| Owner |
Mission Broadcasting (Mission Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| Operator | Nexstar Media Group |
| First air date | November 26, 1980 |
| Call letters' meaning | Hardin MonTana |
| Sister station(s) | KSVI |
| Former callsigns | KOUS-TV (1980–1995) |
| Former channel number(s) | 4 (VHF analog, 1980–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
NBC (1980–1987) ABC (1987–1993) Dark (1993–1995) UPN (secondary, c. 1997–2006) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 247.5 m |
| Facility ID | 47670 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°44′25″N 108°8′20.3″W / 45.74028°N 108.138972°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.yourbigsky.com |
KHMT is a television station that broadcasts on digital channel 22 in Billings, Montana. The station, affiliated with Fox and Jewelry Television, is owned by Mission Broadcasting; through a local marketing agreement with Nexstar Media Group, KHMT is a sister station to KSVI, the market's ABC affiliate. KHMT is licensed to the town of Hardin, the county seat of Big Horn County, located east of Billings.
KHMT's broadcasts became digital-only, effective June 12, 2009.
The station signed on November 26, 1980 as KOUS-TV, owned by a company that shared two stockholders with KYUS-TV (channel 3) in Miles City. In 1982, KOUS became a primary NBC affiliate, which Billings lacked at the time; while the station already carried some NBC programming, it had primarily been an independent station. Since 1968, NBC had largely been relegated to secondary clearances on CBS affiliate KTVQ (channel 2) and ABC affiliate KULR-TV (channel 8)—as was PBS until 1984. Billings was one of the last markets in the nation to receive full service from all three networks. In 1984, the ownership of KOUS and KYUS was formally consolidated when KOUS' owners bought KYUS for $200,000; afterward, KYUS, which had been a separate station, became a satellite of KOUS. This created an instance of a satellite station older than its parent, as KYUS signed on in 1969.
In 1987, NBC chose to move its affiliation from KOUS-TV to KULR-TV (which had been a primary affiliate of the network from 1958 to 1968) effective that August; at that time, the stations swapped affiliations, and channel 4 picked up KULR's former ABC affiliation. That September, KOUS' programming began to be simulcast in Bozeman on new station KCTZ. Shortly afterward, the station's owner changed its name from KOUS-TV, Inc. to Big Horn Communications.
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