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Full-power digital · channel 18 · BILLINGS, MT
| Facility ID | 5243 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| Community of licence | BILLINGS, MT
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 45.80750, -108.34106 |
| Effective radiated power | 1000 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 1265.5 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | http://www.yourbigsky.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 16
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | none found |
This website serves 2 stations. It is a network or group property, so the settings above reflect the owner's policy across all of them rather than a decision made for KSVI.
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| KULR-TV | 11 | DTV | COWLES MONTANA MEDIA COMPANY |
| K14IS-D | 14 | LPD | RED ROCK CAPITAL CORPORATION |
| KBGS-TV | 16 | DTV | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE MONTANA UNIVERSI |
| K17PC-D | 17 | LPT | MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY |
| K19LB-D | 19 | LPD | EDGE SPECTRUM, INC. |
| KTVQ | 20 | DTV | SCRIPPS BROADCASTING HOLDINGS, LLC |
| K25BP-D | 25 | LPT | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| K27IM-D | 27 | LPT | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| K31NN-D | 31 | LPD | EDGE SPECTRUM, INC. |
| K34RQ-D | 34 | LPD | |
| K36RH-D | 36 | LPD |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/KSVI | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=KSVI | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.