KMEM

is an Independent station licensed to Dickinson, North Dakota. It is owned by BIG Media, having acquired it from a local family owned company. It airs on channel 12. The station acts more as a community message board than a contemporary Independent station, focusing more on local events and news than other Independent stations would.
==History==
The station signed on as KMRN on July 20, 1986. It originally was a Religious independent that aired programs from televangelists. It was extremely unprofitable, and after a planned sale to One Bekman-Dedes Communications, who wanted to convert it to an ABC affiliate, it went dark in 1994. In 1996, the station was bought by Paxson Communications, who flipped it to the InTV programming service of infomercials. It was once again sold a year later to a local business who flipped it to a general entertainment independent station. The station's callsign was changed to KMEM in 2001. In 2016, it was bought by BIG Media
==Programming==
Syndicated programming on KMEM include House M.D., American Dad, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Ag Day and This Old House among others. It airs many syndicated local programs related to agriculture and farming, with entertainment programing only taking up primetime hours. The rest of the schedule is filled with infomercials.
==Technical Information==
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel	Video	Aspect	Short Name	Programming
12.1 	1080i	16:9 	KMEM 	Main KMEM programming
12.2 	480i 	16:9 	Cheddar 	Cheddar
12.3 	480i 	16:9 	MALL 	Infomercials
===Analog Sign-off===
KMEM signed off their analog signal on April 25th, 2009, instead of the cutoff date of June 12th. This was due to transmitter issues. They kept their pre-transition digital channel of 14.
Category:Channel 12
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1986
Category:BIG Media
Category:Independent television stations
Category:Dickinson, ND
Category:North Dakota