KULR-TV

KULR-TV

Billings, Montana United States
Channels	Digital: 11 (VHF) Virtual: 8
Branding	NonStop Local Billings
Programming
Affiliations	8.1: NBC 8.2: SWX Right Now
Ownership
Owner	Cowles Company (Cowles Montana Media Company)
History
First air date	March 15, 1958 (66 years ago) (1958-03-15)
Former call signs	KGHL-TV (1958–1963)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 8 (VHF, 1958–2009)
Former affiliations	ABC (1963–1987, secondary until 1969)
Call sign meaning	"Color"; as in Color television
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	35724
ERP	16 kW
HAAT	191 m (627 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	45°45′35.5″N 108°27′17.4″W / 45.759861°N 108.454833°W / 45.759861; -108.454833
Translator(s)	KYUS-TV 3 Miles City for others, see § Translators
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.nonstoplocal.com/billings/

KULR-TV (channel 8) is a television station in Billings, Montana, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by the Cowles Company. The station's studios are located on Overland Avenue in the Homestead Business Park section of Billings, and its transmitter is located on Coburn Hill southeast of downtown.

KULR-TV was the second TV station on the air in Billings; it began broadcasting as KGHL-TV, co-owned with KGHL radio, on March 15, 1958. The station was renamed KULR-TV in 1963 when it was separated from the radio stations. It was an ABC affiliate from 1969 to 1987, when it returned to NBC. KULR-TV was purchased by Max Media in 2004 and by Cowles in 2013. Since the late 1980s, its newscasts have been a distant second-place finisher to KTVQ.