and current event programs, are created by independent producers for Montana PBS. Due to a strong program for journalism and radio/television at UM and for documentary filmmaking at MSU, many of the network's local programs are produced by students. Some of the Montana-made programming is also available online. Stations The six full-service television licenses comprising Montana PBS include: Notes: Translators Montana PBS is additionally rebroadcast over a network of nine low-power digital translator stations, operating one of the largest translator networks in the state of Montana. MSU acquired the West Glacier transmitter from Canyon TV in 2014 for the nominal purchase price of one dollar. In 2018, it acquired the five translators led by KSKC-CD (now K27MS-D), the public television station of Salish Kootenai College, and incorporated them into the network. Not owned by the network are additional translators run by TV districts. The following translators rebroadcast KBGS-TV: Billings: K20HB-D Bridger: K26NN-D The following translators rebroadcast KUFM-TV: Arlee: K17NE-D Drummond: K22MI-D Ferndale: K33OH-D Heron: K13ZN-D Hot Springs: K29ND-D Pablo/Ronan: KSKC-CD Philipsburg: K15KW-D Plains: K08OY-D Plains: K21CA-D Plains: K34PQ-D St. Ignatius: K33OR-D Thompson Falls: K23NP-D Townsend: K11WM-D The following translators rebroadcast KUGF-TV: Big Sandy: K13OQ-D Loma: K29LD-D The following translators rebroadcast KUKL-TV: Kalispell: KEXI-LD West Glacier: K12LU-D The following translators rebroadcast KUSM-TV: Belgrade, etc.: K17KB-D Boulder: K27CD-D Boulder: K36CX-D Butte: K24MP-D Chinook: K22LD-D Circle, etc.: K18CR-D Conrad: K16KB-D Ekalaka: K23DJ-D Emigrant: K27LO-D Helena: K33OP-D Joplin: K35OF-D Livingston: K48NS-D Plevna: K34DP-D Network map Technical information Subchannels The digital signals of Montana PBS' stations are multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion Montana PBS' stations shut down their analog signals on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television station's in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital channel allocations post-transition are as follows: KUSM-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 9; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 8. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 9. KUFM-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 11; the station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 27 to VHF channel 11. Satellite Montana PBS is available free-to-air on AMC 21 (125°W) Ku-band satellite television. References External links Official website PBS member networks Broadcast media of the University of Montana Montana State University Television stations in Montana 1984 establishments