KTGF
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Great Falls, Montana United States |
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| Branding | Faith & Family TV |
| Channels |
Digital: 45 (UHF) Virtual: 16 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 16.1 MeTV 16.2 JUCE TV/Smile of a Child 16.3 TBN 16.4 TBN Salsa 16.5 Hillsong Channel |
| Affiliations | MeTV (2014–present) |
| Owner |
PetroMedia Corporation (KTGF License Corporation) |
| First air date | September 21, 1986 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Television Great Falls |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 16 (UHF, 1986-2009) |
| Former affiliations |
NBC (1986–2005) Fox (2005–2007) Independent (2007–2009) JCTV (2009) Dark (2009–2012) |
| Transmitter power | 175 kW |
| Height | 289 m |
| Facility ID | 13792 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 47°36′24.7″N 111°21′33.2″W / 47.606861°N 111.359222°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KTGF, digital channel 45, is a television station in Great Falls, Montana. The station is owned by PetroMedia Corporation, which acquired the station in March 2012. KTGF is affiliated with MeTV and JUCE TV.
KTGF started broadcasting on September 21, 1986 under the ownership of Continental Television. The station immediately became the city's first full-time affiliate of the NBC television network. From its inception, the station was far behind KRTV and KFBB-TV in the ratings. In March 2001, Continental Television sold KTGF (along with KTMF in Missoula and KWYB in Butte) to Max Media.
In 2003, Max Media signed an agreement to purchase KFBB, as well as KULR-TV in Billings, from Dix Communications. Since the Great Falls television market is not large enough to own two television stations, Max immediately put KTGF up for sale. For more than a year, Max Media could not find a buyer for the station. Finally, Max Media sold KTGF in November 2004 to Destiny Communications of Wichita, Kansas.
In April 2005, Beartooth Communications, the owner of KTVH (the NBC affiliate in Helena), purchased a low power television permit in Great Falls for channel 50. It became obvious that Beartooth was positioning itself to take the NBC affiliation away from KTGF when the NBC affiliation agreement expired at the end of June. Destiny Communications filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prevent NBC from removing the affiliation and giving it to Beartooth's station, now known as KBGF-LP. As the end of June approached, confusion reigned. Both parties claimed they would be the NBC affiliate on July 1 in Great Falls. On June 29, Destiny announced that it would affiliate with the Fox network beginning July 1. This created another confusing situation because another television station in Great Falls, KLMN, was already the Fox affiliate (although the local cable system did not carry the station). As a result, after the NBC affiliation moved from KTGF to KBGF on July 1, 2005, Fox programming was seen on both KTGF and KLMN for a time. Eventually, KLMN dropped Fox programming for UPN, and in September 2006 became an affiliate of MyNetworkTV.
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