KLII

KLII is a New Line Network affiliate serving the Southern Montana market. The station broadcasts on digital UHF channel 53 (virtual channel 52) and is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company.
==History==
Prior to KLII's launch, area cable companies had piped in either from Denver, Butte or out of Boise, and local stations had a secondary affiliation with New Line.
==Gallery==
NLN Bug 2002.jpg|Screencap from December 31, 2002 with New Line's screen bug of the period.
==News programming==
As of October 5, 2015, KLII currently broadcasts 30 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours and 30 minutes on weekdays, 90 minutes on Saturdays and an hour on Sundays). On weekdays, "New Line 52 Eyewitness News" broadcasts six 1-minute news updates at :59 past the hour from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM and from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. At 6:00 AM and 10:00 PM, KLII is the originating station of "New Line News Northwest", which is shown across New Line's owned-and-operated stations in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Seattle, Spokane and Portland.
The station also produces "Affair Billings", a thirty-minute weekly local current affairs program on Sunday afternoons at 11:00 AM.
New Line 52's first newscasts were named The Eye-Opener and later, The Billings News. The original primetime news was called Billings Final. In 1991, New Line cancelled the local newscast on KLII due to corporate budget cuts and began producing a statewide newscast, Montana's New Line News, co-produced and presented from Billings, and sister stations across Montana. Following a sharp drop in ratings (though production began co-originating from KDNLN in Dillon after that station signed on in 1996), localized newscasts from Billings were restored in 1997.
The local evening newscasts were cut in 2000 with the launch of a national and international news program, New Line Live from Los Angeles. Seven years later, the all-Billings evening newscast returned to its 90-minute-long format under the umbrella title of New Line 52 Eyewitness News.
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