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KXLF-TV marks 25th anniversary

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August 20, 1978-25 KXLF-TV marks 25th anniversary KXLF-TV in Butte started its 25th year last week. When the station signed on the air Aug. 14, 1953, broadcasting originated from the of the Pay & Save Market on Harrison. Most of e programming was live, and Butte residents watched such programs as Amos & Andy, Chicago and Hollywood Wrestling, Dennis Day and Shadow Stumpers on their black-and-white television sets. For the last 19 years, KXLF's full color facility has been located in the old Milwaukee Depot, which was remodeled last year. The station employs 30 people. Jim Manning, who has been at the station for its entire 25 year history, is the sales manager and Weldon Paulsen is the chief engineer. The station's general manager, Paul Simitzes, began 1 his career at KXLF 24 years ago, working in programming and sales and anchoring the news. He was preceded as general manager by Ed Piess, who served the station for many years. To Simitzes, "The most exciting part of the last 25 years has been the technological advances in television. When the industry was starting, no one really thought about color broadasts, on-the-spot satellite reports and delayed or videotaped programming. When you look back, it makes you really look forward to the changes television will see in the next 25 years.' KXLF has broadcast continously since its sign-on date except for one month 18 years ago when the transmitter located on the Continental Divide caught fire and burned to the ground. This fall KXLF will again have a new transmitter, but this time without the interruption in programming. "The new transmitter will be in the same location and we will continue to broadcast at a full 100,000 watts on channel 4, the maximum allowable by the FCC," said Simitzes. "This extremely sophisticated transmitter should improve reception for our viewers, especially those in the fringe areas." KXLF- TV, the first television station in Montana, was founded by Ed Craney of Butte who also started its predecessor, KXLF Radio, 24 years earlier. The station was sold to Joe Sample of Billings in March 1961 and became part of the Montana Television Network. Winner of numerous industry awards, KXLF is a primary affiliate of ABC and a CBS secondary. At one point the station was affiliated with Anaconda creates new department The Anaconda Co. has consolidated its safety and occupational health engineering and security departments into the environmental engineering department, Butte operations manager Dan Rovig, construction departments, as well as for the pit and underground rescue stations. A 1953 graduate of Montana Tech in petroleum engineering, Johnson has been involved in the company's safety program in Butte for
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