KHMT (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Hardin, Montana, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Billings area.
The two stations share studios on South 24th Street West in Billings; KHMT's transmitter is located in unincorporated southeastern Yellowstone County (southeast of Indian Arrow).
[2][3] The station signed on November 26, 1980, as KOUS-TV,[4] owned by a company that shared two stockholders with KYUS-TV (channel 3) in Miles City.
The following year, Big Horn sold the channel 4 license to the National Indian Media Foundation,[16] which entered into a local marketing agreement with KSVI.
[17] The agreement allowed channel 4 to resume broadcasting August 16, 1995, as Fox affiliate KHMT, operating from the same tower it had used as KOUS.
[28] Though the news operation had won Montana Broadcasters Association and Associated Press awards during its run, it was not successful in the ratings:[30] KHMT's prime time newscast reportedly pulled in only 3 percent viewing shares, putting it behind KTVQ and KULR in a distant third.