KXMC-TV

KXMC-TV / KXMD-TV

KXMC: Minot, North Dakota KXMD: Williston, North Dakota
Branding	KXMC CBS 13; KXMD CBS 11 (general) KX Television (regional) KX News (newscasts)
Slogan	Your Eye on Dakota
Channels	Digital: KXMC: 13 (VHF) KXMD: 14 (UHF)
Subchannels	KXMC: 13.1 CBS 13.3 Weather KXMD: 11.1 CBS 11.2 KMCY/ABC 11.3 Weather
Translators	K07EZ Beulah (repeats KXMC-TV)
Owner	Reiten Television, Inc.
First air date	KXMC: April 3, 1953 KXMD: October 25, 1969
Call letters' meaning	KX Television
Former callsigns	KXMC: KCJB-TV (1953-1958) KXMD: none
Former channel number(s)	Analog: KXMC: 13 (VHF, 1953-2009) KXMD: 11 (VHF, 1969-2009) Digital: KXMC: 45 (UHF)
Former affiliations	Secondary: ABC secondary (1953-1986)
Transmitter power	KXMC: 16.1 kW KXMD: 100 kW
Height	KXMC: 334 m KXMD: 257 m
Facility ID	KXMC: 55685 KXMD: 55683
Transmitter coordinates	KXMC: 48°3′0″N 101°23′32″W KXMD: 48°8′30″N 103°53′34″W
Website	www.kxnet.com

KXMC-TV, channel 13, is the CBS affiliated television station for Minot, North Dakota. The station serves the northern half of the Western North Dakota television market. It is owned by Reiten Television of Minot. KXMC is the flagship station of KX Television, a network of four CBS affiliates that reach most of central and western North Dakota, along with parts of South Dakota and Montana.

The station operates a semi-satellite, KXMD-TV, channel 11 (digital 14) in Williston. KXMD identifies itself as a station in its own right, but simulcasts KXMC most of the day. However, KXMD airs separate commercials and places local inserts into KXMC's newscasts. Additionally, KXMC's programming is repeated on low-powered translator K07EZ in Beulah.

Digital television

KXMC's broadcasts are digital-only, effective June 12, 2009.

KXMC-TV

Channel	Aspect	Format	Programming
13.1	16:9	1080i	main KXMC-TV programming / CBS
13.3	4:3	480i	Weather

KXMD-TV

Channel	Aspect	Format	Programming
11.1	16:9	1080i	main KXMA-TV programming / CBS
11.2		720p	Simulcast of KMCY (ABC)
11.3	4:3	480i	Weather

History

KXMC was the first television station in North Dakota, going on the air as KCJB-TV in April 1953. Minot businessman Chester Reiten and Fargo businessman John Boler bought the station in 1958. The duo already owned KXMB-TV in Bismarck, and renamed the station KXMC-TV to reflect this.

KXMD signed on in November 1969. Previously Williston viewers had to pick up CBS programming on cable from KOOK-TV in Billings, Montana (now KTVQ), although KUMV had not been above breaking away from the KFYR/KMOT feed when CBS had something very important to present.

Boler sold his interest in the stations to Reiten in 1971. Tim Reiten, Chester's son, still owns the stations today (including KXMA-TV in Dickinson, which he bought in 1985).

The KX stations formerly had a secondary affiliation with ABC before full-time ABC affiliate KMCY signed on in 1986. During the late 1950s, the stations were also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.

Until 1986, KXMD was carried by cable systems across neighboring Saskatchewan, even operating a sales office in Saskatoon, as did KUMV and Great Falls ABC station KFBB-TV. These arrangements ended in 1986 when the Canadian cable companies were granted permission to replace the North Dakota signals with network affiliates from Detroit and Toledo, Ohio.

KXJB-TV in Fargo was co-owned with the KX stations (though programmed separately) until Boler sold his interest in 1971. The stations still occasionally share stories. After an ice storm on April 6, 1997 caused the KXJB-TV mast to collapse, some cable systems replaced KXJB with KXMC, either temporarily or permanently, to maintain CBS service.

In 2006, the stations began a web portal-like website called KX Net, with each station's website displaying a localized front page. The stations continue to be branded as "KX Television" and as "KX News" on the air, but also use the "KX Net" monkier on the air also. KXNet.com combined the previous domains kxma.com, kxmb.com, kxmc.com and kxmd.com under one umbrella. The original domains are still active. KXNet.com won the 2007 Teddy Award for Best Website and the 2007 Eric Severaid Award for best website small market television in a 6 state region.

In October 2007, KXNet.com along with Midkota Solutions launched DakotaPolitics.com, a web site focusing on North Dakota political news coverage. DakotaPolitics featured profile information, voting records and some analysis. DakotaPolitics also launched weekly tracking polls for the 2008 elections. In 2008 KXNet.com became the first web site in North Dakota to deliver a live news broadcast over the Internet when they streamed a 1-hour special coverage of the 2008 Presidential Caucuses from Bismarck.

Programming

The North Dakota State Fair parade in Minot is aired live every July. KXMC and KXMD, along with sister stations KXMB-TV in Bismarck, North Dakota and KXMA-TV in Dickinson, North Dakota signs off on Tuesday through Saturday mornings at 1:05 a.m. and at 1:35 a.m. Sunday and Monday mornings, during the sign-offs are the national anthem and the national feed of CBS Up to the Minute with public service announcements, while weekends simulcast the local weather conditions of North Dakota.

News operation

KXMC produces local newscasts daily at 6 a.m., noon, 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. KXMD places local inserts into KXMC's broadcasts. KXMC produces a morning show at 6 a.m., KX News Morning, and co-produces a 5 p.m. newscast with KXMB. Both are simulcast on all four stations. All of the local newscasts are broadcast in high definition.

As a whole, KX Television has long trailed NBC North Dakota in the ratings by a significant margin; the main stations and their satellites are counted as one station for ratings and regulatory purposes. However, KXMC has historically been well ahead of KMOT in the ratings for the northern part of the market. This is largely because it is the only station airing a full schedule of local news for the northern part of the market. Also, KX News Morning has recently surged well ahead of NBC North Dakota's Country Morning Today--the first time in recent memory that NBC North Dakota has lost consecutive ratings periods in any time slot.

On February 6, 2011, KXMC and KXMD started broadcasting its local newscasts in high-definition, joining KXMB and KXMA, which began broadcasting HD local news on Monday, January 31, 2011. The four KX Television stations are the first (and only) stations with HD local news in the Bismarck-Minot-Dickinson, ND market and the entire states of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana.^{[citation needed]}

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

• KX News (2004-present)

Station slogans

• "Your Eye on Dakota" (2004-present)

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On-air staff

Current on-air staff

Anchors

• Carla Burbidge - weekdays at noon
• Alysia Huck - weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
• Jim Olson - weeknights at 6 p.m.; also news director and reporter
• Perry Olson - weekday mornings KX News Morning (6-7 a.m.); also reporter
• Shaun Sipma - weeknights at 10 p.m.; also reporter
• Jennifer Thorgramson - Saturdays at 6 and weekends at 10 p.m.; also weeknight reporter

KX Weather

• Tom Schrader (AMS Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
• Joe Goldade - meteorologist; weekday mornings and weekdays at noon
• Piper Jones - weather anchor; Saturdays at 6 and weekends at 10 p.m.

Sports team

• Mike Elm - sports director; weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
• Tim Olson - sports anchor; Saturdays at 6 and weekends at 10 p.m.

See also

• KXMB-TV

External links

• KX Net
• DakotaPolitics Website
• KXMC website
• KXMD website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KXMC
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KXMD
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KXMC-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KXMD-TV
• Program Information for KXMC at TitanTV.com