KJJC-TV (channel 16) is a television station in Great Falls, Montana, United States, affiliated with MeTV and owned by Northwest Capital Corporation.
Station operations are conducted from a facility in Helena, where KJJC-TV is rebroadcast by commonly owned translator KJJC-LD (channel 7).
The founding owners, Continental Television Network, later established third stations in Missoula and Butte, which were sold together with KTGF to Max Media in 2001.
Roger Lonnquist acquired the station in 2012; it has aired MeTV as its main subchannel since 2013 along with a selection of Christian television channels owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
[5] In April 1985, Colla's firm, Video International Publishers, applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build a new television station on channel 16 in Great Falls.
[9] Over the succeeding years, KTGF expanded its reach by investing in additional translators and a microwave joint venture with cable company TCI; while the station benefited from the national lead held by NBC at the time, its newscasts remained in third place, with the early evening newscast being especially distant from catching KRTV and KFBB, then competing vigorously for ratings leadership in Great Falls.
[21] In September 2002, Max contracted Independent News Network of Davenport, Iowa, to produce a regional newscast for KWYB, KTMF, and KTGF.
[24] Max Media announced on September 30, 2003, that it had agreed to purchase Great Falls ABC affiliate KFBB-TV and KULR-TV in Billings from the Wooster Republican Printing Company, which decided to exit the television business.
[25] To acquire KFBB, Max was required to put KTGF on the market and agreed in September 2004 to sell the station to Destiny Communications of Wichita, Kansas.
[26] Destiny was owned by Darnell Washington, a 20-year veteran of television stations in other parts of the United States; Max Media and private investors provided funding for the transaction.
[27] Meanwhile, Destiny Communications partnered with College Creek Media of Chicago to program three FM radio stations in the Great Falls area.
The radio station operating agreement lasted less than a year before College Creek opted to sell the outlets; Destiny was unable to arrange financing to make the purchase itself.
[37] That same month, after Destiny defaulted on its debt payments, the station filed to transfer the KTGF license to creditor RGW Investments LLC.