MontanaPBS broadcasts a Digital Television (DTV) service in the Bozeman, Billings and Missoula communities. A digital television receiver is required to receive the signal. Currently the MontanaPBS digital channels offer the primary MontanaPBS Network schedule in high definition (HD), a children's channel 'MontanaPBS Kids', a lifestyle/how-to channel 'MontanaPBS Create' and 'MontanaPBS Capitol Coverage'. Schedule information for these digital channels may be found at: www.montanapbs.org/Schedule/ Tuning Information Depending on how your digital receiver displays channel information, you may see the “true” digital channel (Ch. 8, Bozeman) or you may see a “virtual” channel identifier. This system of “virtual” channels was developed nationally to assist viewers who may be most familiar with their old analog channels in any given community. By assigning the familiar analog channel numbers to a digital channel, you would see the familiar number 9 appear prior to the decimal point on your receiver. Because digital television allows for multiple broadcast streams to transmit simultaneously, a minor channel number was also developed, indicated by a number following the decimal point. For instance, in the Bozeman area, Ch. 9.1 refers to the MontanaPBS HD program service, where Ch. 9.2 would refer to the MontanaPBS Kids channel. In Missoula, Ch. 11.1 refers to the MontanaPBS HD channel and so on. True Digital Channel “Virtual” Digital Channels
Bozeman KUSM-TV Ch. 8 9.1 MontanaPBS HD (high definition primary statewide network)
9.2 MontanaPBS Kids
9.3 MontanaPBS Create
9.4 MontanaPBS Capitol Coverage Missoula KUFM-TV Ch. 11 11.1 MontanaPBS HD (high definition primary statewide network)
11.2 MontanaPBS Kids
11.3 MontanaPBS Create
11.4 MontanaPBS Capitol CoverageBillings KBGS-TV Billings KBGS-TV Ch. 16 16.1 MontanaPBS HD (high definition primary statewide network)
16.2 MontanaPBS Kids
16.3 MontanaPBS Create
16.4 MontanaPBS Capitol Coverage  |
