User:Lolcatistan/sandbox-MTMstations

KMTM-TV channel 3 Bellingham/Seattle/Tacoma, WA + CKMT-TV channel 3 Abbotsford/Vancouver/Victoria, BC

 * Flagship of regional “Network Northwest” stations.
 * KMTM was one of the very first TV stations in the PNW: KX03BY from 1930-45, KBY-TV from 1945-1949, KKBY from 1949-1953, KDO-TV from 1953-1961, and KQRC from 1961-1970. Mary Tyler Moore’s company bought out the station in 1970, making it into one of the first Superstations.
 * CKMT was formerly on channel 31 as CJBA, launched in 1963. It was moved to channel 3 in 1995, as it had became a repeater of KMTM across the border, and had been so since 1979 (having been operated through an LMA with the Jim Pattison Group which owned the station; the CRTC weren’t very happy about an American company (MTM/Argosy) operating a Canadian station, but could do nothing about it anyway, due to that pesky free market). The CKMT callsign was adopted in 2002 to harmonize the identities of the stations.
 * Never an affiliate of any of the big networks; at the time the station launched during the Interwar Period, most of the big networks were based in NYC, and the only way to get network programming from there to Seattle was via copper phone lines, which were prohibitively expensive.