KXGN-TV
KXGN-TV, channel 5, is a television station in Glendive, Montana, a primarily agricultural region in eastern Montana, which is the smallest of the 210 US Nielsen-designated broadcast television market areas in the United States; the market serves a total potential home-market audience of a mere five thousand households in Dawson and Prairie counties in eastern Montana. The market is also the smallest in North America. KXGN celebrated its 50th year on the air in November 2007.
KXGN is affiliated with the CBS Television Network, and also airs news and other programs from the Montana Television Network, a network of CBS affiliates in Montana.
KXGN-TV is owned by Glendive Broadcasting Corporation. Glendive Broadcasting also operates two of the three Glendive radio stations. KXGN radio (1400 AM) and KDZN (96.5 FM) have been owned by Glendive Broadcasting since the late 1970s and 1986 respectively.
Digital television
KXGN was allocated ATSC TV channel 10 by the FCC in September 2004 after receiving multiple extensions of the original May 1, 2002 deadline to go digital due to financial hardship. In fall 2008, it received FCC permission to place its final post-transition digital signal on its existing channel, VHF 5, reducing the cost of its digital transition by an estimated $100,000 by not simulcasting digitally on another channel during transition.