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KTVQ-TV

KTVQ
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Billings, Montana
United States
Branding Q2 (general)
Q2 News (newscasts)
Slogan Fair. Accurate. To The Point.
Channels Digital: 10 (VHF)
Virtual: 2 (PSIP)
Subchannels 2.1 CBS
2.2 CW+
Owner Cordillera Communications
(KTVQ Communications, LLC)
First air date November 9, 1953
Former callsigns KOOK-TV (1953–1972)
Former channel number(s) 2 (VHF analog, 1953–2009)
Former affiliations DuMont (1953–1955/6)
NBC (secondary, 1953–1958, 1968–1980)
ABC (secondary, 1953–1968)
NTA (secondary, 1958–1959)
PBS (per program, 1970–1984)
Transmitter power 26.1 kW
Height 180 m
Facility ID 35694
Transmitter coordinates 45°46′0.9″N 108°27′28.8″W / 45.766917°N 108.458000°W / 45.766917; -108.458000
Website www.ktvq.com

KTVQ, virtual channel 2, is the CBS-affiliated television station in Billings, Montana, and it is owned by the Evening Post Industries; the station is part of the Montana Television Network, a statewide network of CBS-affiliated stations. It broadcasts its digital signal on VHF channel 10 (remapped to former analog channel 2); on cable, it is carried on Comcast channel 5.

In February 2009, KULR, KTVQ and two other stations in the Billings market were refused Federal Communications Commission permission to end analogue broadcasts and operate as digital-only effective on the originally-scheduled February 17, 2009 date.

The station began broadcasting on November 9, 1953, as KOOK-TV, Montana's second television station; Butte's KXLF-TV had begun in August. It was owned by Montana broadcasting pioneer Joe Sample and his Garryowen Corporation along with KOOK radio (AM 970, now KBUL). The station carried programming from all four major networks of the time — CBS, NBC, ABC and DuMont Television Network-- but has always been a primary CBS affiliate. It lost DuMont when that network shut down in 1956 and lost NBC when KGHL-TV (now KULR-TV) began in 1958; between 1956 and 1961, when it closed, the station was also a NTA Film Network affiliate. The station changed its callsign to KTVQ on September 5, 1972.

In 1968, channel 2 picked up a secondary affiliation with NBC after KULR opted to take a primary affiliation with ABC. This was very unusual for a two-station market, especially one as small as Billings. It shared NBC with KULR until KOUS (now KHMT) began in 1980.


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