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Lewistown to get local TV news

Lewistown to get local TV news By KAREN IVANOVA Tribune Regional Editor A Las Vegas-based communications company is bringing local TV news to Lewistown. KBAO will broadcast news and sports on Channel 13. Although the station is a sure thing, the location, size, groundbreaking date and its network affiliation are still in question, said Jim Rogers, a wealthy attorney and founder of Sunbelt Communications. The company owns stations in Montana, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho and Wyoming, including NBC-affiliate KTVH in Helena. "We are in the process of doing a cational Opportunities for Central Montana. The non-profit organization operates the school under contract with the Lewistown School District. In Havre, MSU-Northern is offering to lease Sunbelt space on its campus for $1 a year. The station would broadcast as KBBJ on Channel 9. In exchange, the company would provide technical training and possibly even paid internships at the news station, said MSU-Northern Chancellor Mike Rao. "To give (students) the opportunity to get into television is something that would be very rare in a community of our size," Rao said. research project (in Lewistown)," said Rogers, who previously announced similar plans for a new station on the MSU-Northern campus in Havre. Leases have not been signed in either town. "It's startup from point zero," Rogers said. Neither Havre nor Lewistown has a local television station. Sunbelt is exploring locating the Lewistown station at a proposed new site for the Central Montana University Center. The school is planning to build a 5,000-to-7,000-square-foot site has foot headquarters. However, a been chosen and plans are still tentative, said Diane Oldenburg with Edu- Also look for another channel without cable Lewistown residents soon will be able to pick up NBC programming without cable. KTGF of Great tor in the area Falls has purchased a transla- NBC that will broadcast on Channel 47, KTGF Corporate Vice President Penny Adkins said. For years, Lewistown residents have needed cable to watch the station.
Article from 09 May 1999Great Falls Tribune(Great Falls, MT)
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