KRTV (channel 3) is a television station in Great Falls, Montana, United States, affiliated with CBS.

In Helena, Montana, KRTV is repeated on a low-power semi-satellite, KXLH-LD (channel 9), which airs the same network and syndicated programming but with Helena-specific commercials and evening newscasts.

KXLH-LD has studios on West Lyndale Avenue in Helena, shared with that city's NBC affiliate, KTVH-DT (channel 12).

[9] Dan Snyder was named manager, and construction began on the station's studios and transmitter facility on a hill overlooking Black Eagle.

A storm with reported wind gusts of up to 70 miles per hour (110 km/h)[12] moved through Great Falls that night and severely damaged the station's antenna.

[22] Snyder reached a deal in October 1968 to sell KRTV to Garryowen Cascade TV, a company owned by Joe Sample.

[23] The acquisition gained FCC approval on a 4–3 vote over concerns that Sample would have an outsized influence on Montana television; one commissioner, Kenneth A. Cox, voted for the deal "reluctantly" because concerns over maintaining television service in rural areas outweighed economic concentration questions for him.

Affiliation and ownership changes at Skyline's outlets, which also included stations in Idaho, led to the network being dissolved on September 30, 1969.

[32] KRTV and KFBB-TV continued to air a limited number of NBC shows until the third station for Great Falls, KTGF (channel 16), started broadcasting in September 1986.

[33] In 1986, Evening Post Industries purchased the MTN stations outside of Billings, which Lilly continued to own for another eight years.

[35] By the end of the decade, KRTV had not only recovered but opened a wide lead over KFBB-TV in the Great Falls news ratings,[36] a change attributed to the return of KRTV founding employee and later MTN executive Don Bradley from a short-lived attempt at station ownership in Helena to run the Great Falls station from 1988 to 1994.

[38] On February 11, 2013, at approximately 2:33 p.m. MST, an unknown hacker reportedly gained access to the station's Emergency Alert System (EAS) encoder and sent out a Local Area Emergency, explaining in a pitch-altered voice that "the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living" and that the bodies were considered "extremely dangerous", apparently referencing The Walking Dead.

The voice also asked viewers to tune to 920 AM—a frequency unused by any Great Falls station—for further information after the station ended operations.

As part of the segment, they aired an audio clip of the actual EAS intrusion (including the tones); this inadvertently led to WIZM-FM and La Crosse TV station WKBT-DT rebroadcasting the alert.

[48] KRTV shut down its analog signal (VHF channel 3) on February 17, 2009, the original digital television transition date.