KPAX-TV (channel 8) is a television station in Missoula, Montana, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, it is part of the Montana Television Network, a statewide network of CBS-affiliated stations. KPAX-TV's studios are located on West Central Avenue in Missoula, and its transmitter is located on TV Mountain north of the city. KAJJ-CD (channel 18) in Kalispell operates as a low-power, Class A semi-satellite of KPAX-TV; known on-air as KAJ, it broadcasts the same schedule as KPAX, but with local commercials and news segments. To comply with the requirements of its Class A license, KAJJ also produces its own weeknight 5:30 and 10 p.m. newscasts with a separate anchor, which premiered in 2010. History The signal of KXLF-TV in Butte had been received in Missoula since 1958, when a translator was set up in the Rattlesnake Valley, but KXLF-TV itself was approved to set up a translator station in Missoula in December 1965, at the same time that KMSO-TV of Missoula was allowed to build a translator in Butte, which began broadcasting in February 1966. Joe Sample, owner of KXLF-TV, applied to build a full-power satellite of the station for Missoula on October 15, 1969 through subsidiary Garryowen Butte TV. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted the construction permit on December 23. KPAX-TV went on the air in two phases: provisionally from a tower on May 9, 1970, and from its full, 257,000-watt facility on June 5. In January 1977, a former television and appliance store on Regent Street was remodeled into a local studio for KPAX. This allowed KPAX to sever the electronic umbilical cord with KXLF and begin the production of local news and commercials in the city. The year before, KXLF-KPAX had become a primary ABC affiliate, with CBS being shared with KGVO-TV/KTVM-TV in the Missoula and Butte areas. In 1984, Sample sold the MTN stations to SJL, Inc. for $20 million. The network became exclusively affiliated with CBS that year; as a result, the airing of ABC programs in Missoula and Butte moved to the Eagle Communications network (KECI, KTVM, and KCFW), which signed an affiliation agreement with the network to air it alongside NBC. MTN was split two years later when the stations outside Billings, including KPAX-TV, were sold to Evening Post Publishing Company, through its Cordillera Communications subsidiary, for $24 million in 1986. The