KJJC-TV

"KTGF" redirects here. For the low-power television station in Great Falls with the call sign KTGF-LD, see KTVH-DT.
KJJC-TV
Channels
BrandingKJJC-TV Network
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Northwest Capital Corporation
  • (KTGF License Corporation)
History
First air date
September 21, 1986
(38 years ago) (1986-09-21)
Former call signs
  • KTGF (1986–2018)
  • KJJC (2018–2019)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 16 (UHF, 1986–2009)
  • Digital: 45 (UHF, 2003–2018)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID13792
ERP500 kW
HAAT78 m (256 ft)
Transmitter coordinates47°27′51.8″N 111°21′21.1″W / 47.464389°N 111.355861°W / 47.464389; -111.355861
Translator(s)KJJC-LD 7 Helena
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.kjjc.org

KJJC-TV (channel 16) is a television station in Great Falls, Montana, United States, affiliated with MeTV and owned by Northwest Capital Corporation. The station's transmitter is located on 47th Avenue SW in unincorporated Cascade County, near the Great Falls International Airport. Station operations are conducted from a facility in Helena, where KJJC-TV is rebroadcast by commonly owned translator KJJC-LD (channel 7).

KJJC-TV began broadcasting in September 1986 as KTGF. It was the third commercial station in Great Falls and an NBC affiliate for 19 years; the station produced local news programming in the late 1980s and early 1990s before canceling the effort in 1993. The founding owners, Continental Television Network, later established third stations in Missoula and Butte, which were sold together with KTGF to Max Media in 2001. Max owned the station until it was required to divest KTGF to buy KFBB-TV, the local ABC affiliate. Destiny Communications, a Black-owned company, purchased KTGF as its first television station in 2004. However, within a year, it lost the NBC affiliation to KBGF-LP (channel 50, today's KTGF-LD), an extension of KTVH-DT in Helena, in a decision that NBC had apparently made years prior.

As a result, on July 1, 2005, KTGF became an affiliate of Fox, but this lasted just two years before KTGF became an independent station. In 2009, Destiny defaulted on its debt payments, and the license was transferred to a creditor. Roger Lonnquist acquired the station in 2012; it has aired MeTV as its main subchannel since 2013 along with a selection of Christian television channels owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. All five subchannels are also broadcast by KINV-LD in Billings.

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KJJC-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.