KMOT

KMOT
Channels
Branding
Programming
NetworkNBC North Dakota
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KFYR-TV, KQCD-TV, KUMV-TV
History
First air date
January 23, 1958 (66 years ago) (1958-01-23)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 10 (VHF, 1958–2009)
  • Digital: 58 (UHF, until 2009)
ABC (secondary, 1958–1986)
Call sign meaning
Minot
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID41425
ERP7.69 kW
HAAT207 m (679 ft)
Transmitter coordinates48°12′56″N 101°19′7″W / 48.21556°N 101.31861°W / 48.21556; -101.31861
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.kfyrtv.com

KMOT (channel 10) is a television station in Minot, North Dakota, United States, affiliated with NBC and Fox. The station is owned by Gray Television, and maintains studios and transmitter facilities at the intersection of 16th Street and 18th Avenue SW in Minot.

KMOT is one of two full-fledged NBC stations in the NBC North Dakota regional network of NBC affiliates in central and western North Dakota, along with flagship station KFYR-TV (channel 5) in Bismarck. The NBC North Dakota network relays NBC network and other programming across central and western North Dakota, as well as bordering counties in Montana and South Dakota. The four stations along with fellow NBC affiliate KVLY-TV in Fargo often share news stories. Master control and some internal operations of KMOT are based at KFYR's facilities on North 4th Street and East Broadway Avenue in downtown Bismarck. The four stations are counted as a single unit for ratings purposes.

KMOT also operates a semi-satellite in Williston, North Dakota, KUMV-TV (channel 8), which airs local advertising and weekday newscast inserts focusing on the northwestern portion of the Minot–Bismarck market, but otherwise airs the same programming as KMOT. Although operated as a separate station in its own right, KMOT is actually considered a semi-satellite of KFYR-TV in Bismarck, which also has semi-satellite KQCD-TV (channel 7) in Dickinson. It clears all network and syndicated programming as provided through its parent but airs separate local newscasts, legal identifications, and commercial inserts. KFYR and KQCD serve the southern portion of the Bismarck–Minot/Dickinson–Williston market while KMOT and KUMV serve the northern portion.

The over-the-air signal of KMOT reaches portions of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, but is no longer available on any cable systems there.

Dish Network and DirecTV only provide only KFYR as central and western North Dakota's NBC affiliate.

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KMOT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.