KFBB-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Great Falls, Montana, United States, affiliated with ABC, Fox and MyNetworkTV.
Owned by the Cowles Company, the station maintains studios and transmitter facilities on Old Havre Highway in Black Eagle (with a Great Falls mailing address).
KHBB-LD is operated out of KFBB's sales office and news bureau on Euclid Avenue in Helena, while its transmitter is located atop Copper Butte.
Anaconda, through its Fairmount division, controlled most of the major newspapers in Montana (although not the Great Falls Tribune) and was notorious for manipulating the state's political visions for its own needs.
KFBB's ABC affiliation allowed it to be carried on cable television systems in both Alberta and Saskatchewan; it even maintained a sales office in Saskatoon, as did Williston stations KUMV-TV and KXMD-TV.
An April 1981 application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requested transfer of control of the licensee corporation from owner Donald P. Nathanson to his estate, following his death.
In June 2003, Wooster Republican Printing made deep cuts in local news production, ending morning, noon and weekend newscasts.
Since the Great Falls market did not have enough full-power television stations to allow a broadcast duopoly, Max Media kept the more-established KFBB and sold KTGF.
On September 30, 2013, the Cowles Company acquired Max Media's Montana television station cluster (KULR, and ABC affiliates KWYB/Butte, KFBB-TV/Great Falls, KHBB-LD/Helena and KTMF/Missoula) for $18 million.
KFBB also produces a ten-minute nightly newscast for Cowles' other ABC Montana stations, KTMF in Missoula and Kalispell and KWYB in Butte and Bozeman.
A full page ad in Signature Montana magazine in April 2010 highlighted the fact that KFBB has the most TV newscasts in the evening in the market.