KPAX News is a US TV station licensed to Missoula, Montana. The company works under the ownership of E.W. Scripps Company. It is a CBS/CW+ affiliate TV channel that operates at Virtual CH 8. KPAX Missoula features the latest Missoula MT News, including We’re Open, The Rebound: Montana, Crime and Courts, Missoula County, Flathead County, On Special Assignment, Election 2020, US and the World, MTN Investigate, and Western Montana News. KPAX Weather services include Interactive Radar, KPAX 7-day Forecast, Hourly Forecast, Radar Maps, and Weather Cams. Meanwhile, KPAX Sports covers Prep Game and KPAX Sports Awards. Moreover, its community section consists of Statute to Services, MTN Golf & GO, Open House, Unsung Heroes, Arts & Education, Contests. Plus, it also features One Class at a Time, Under the Big Sky, Middle Schooler of the Month, MTNDeals.com, and others.
Watch KPAX Live Stream
Get KPAX live stream on Missoula’s cable networks, satellite networks, and over-the-air through a transmitter. Moreover, KPAX can also be viewed live in HD on kpax.com or KPAX App on mobile devices. However, viewers can also play KPAX live steam here on livenewsglobe by clicking the play button provided below in the streaming window. Always keep track of the Missoula News, KPAX Breaking News, and KPAX local news anywhere you are with the station’s HD live streaming service.
KPAX Live Stream Schedule
Here have a look at the live stream schedule of KPAX News:
| Sr. | Time | Shows |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12:00AM | MTN News Streaming Headlines |
| 2 | 5:00AM - 6: 29AM | Montana this Morning |
| 3 | 7:00AM | REPLAY: Montana this Morning |
| 4 | 8:30AM - 11:30AM | MTN News Streaming Headlines |
| 5 | 12:00PM | MTN Noon News |
| 6 | 12:30PM - 5:00PM | MTN News Streaming Headlines |
| 7 | 5:29PM | MTN 5:30 News with Jill Valley |
| 8 | 6:00PM | REPLAY: MTN 5:30 News with Jill Valley |
| 9 | 6:30PM - 7:00PM | MTN News Streaming Headlines |
| 10 | 7:30PM | Newsfeed |
| 11 | 8:00PM | MTN News Streaming Headlines |
| 12 | 8:30PM | Newsfeed |
| 13 | 9:00PM | MTN News Streaming Headlines |
| 14 | 9:30PM | Newsfeed |
| 15 | 10:00PM | MTN 10:00 News |
| 16 | 10:35PM | REPLAY: MTN 10:00 News |
| 17 | 11:00PM - 11:30PM | MTN News Streaming Headlines |
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KPAX News Team
Channel 8 Missoula covers all the important news and stories in the area, ranging from the Bank Robbery to the Mayor’s speech. Not to mention the local events that take place in society. Viewers can get up-to-minute updates about the events directly to their TV screens. Dennis Bragg, Jill Valley, Katie Miller, Megan Mannering, Jardyn Johnson, Sean Wells, and Geneva Zoltek.
Katie Miller: News Reporter at KPAX Missoula MT
Katie Miller is a news journalist and reporter working at CBS Missoula since 2018. During her tenure, she has covered several major stories, including downtown Missoula’s potential Active Shooter Situation. She is maybe the anchor, but her technical duties include Multimedia Journalism. She doesn’t have any camera guy, instead, Miller manages her own camera. Miller believes the purpose of the news is to serve the community by delivering the information. As she serves as the contributor of the news, it is her duty to provide truthful and accurate information about all the issues, good or bad, occurring in this community.
It was the very first job for Katie in the TV News. Before this, she did multiple random jobs in her hometown. Miller graduated from The University of Montana after completing her bachelor’s in Journalism.
StormTracker Weather
KPAX Weather team, officially known as StormTrakcer Weather, is Montana’s weather leader. It covers all the weather details related to Missoula and its nearby areas ranging from KPAX 7-Day Forecast to the Severe Weather Alerts. They know the importance of weekends for the public and craft the most accurate forecast based on the high-tech weather technology used including the weather radar. KPAX Weather team consists of four people Lewis Dortch, Elizabeth Copeland, Erin Yost, and Russ Thomas. Each one of them is a qualified member with a high level of expertise in their respective field.
Russ Thomas: Meteorologist at KPAX Weather
Russ Thomas is a top meteorologist at KPAX News who has been running weather reports for Montana and other parts of central Idaho for almost 18 years. Before being a part of Channel 8 Missoula, Russ used to serve the KSLA News in Shreveport, LA. He never left for any other channel over the years. Thomas is responsible for extracting data from severe weather models, evaluating the information, and crafting the most accurate and authentic weather forecast for the viewing community.
After constructing the forecast, Thomas shares it with the public on social media, radio, and Television. Russ has reported several biggest weather events, such as multiple Shreveport area’s tornado outbreaks and Tropical storm Allison that put Texas and Lusiana through alot of disaster. Thomas believes accuracy is more important than speed. Knowing the story’s accurate situation is always the best thing to do, instead of getting results fast.
Russ completed his education in 2000 after getting the BS Meteorology degree from Florida State University. Right after getting out of the University, Thomas joined KSLA News. Three years later, in May 2003, he got an opportunity to work as a meteorologist at KPAX Weather, which turned out to be a huge success. Thomas is a friendly guy, and he loves Montana for its friendly-natured people. That’s what he said on his bio page.
KPAX Weather Services
KPAX Weather covers all the weather conditions in Missoula, Montana, in real-time with its powerful interactive weather radar. Moreover, the team of weather personalities always pursue severe weather conditions with the help of state-of-an-art technology. Among the weather services, you will find the daily forecast, interactive Doppler radar with each layer representing the separate weather conditions, hourly forecast, radar maps, and weather cams. KPAX Weather has quite a reputation among the viewers in Montana. People always rely on the channel’s forecast before planning any trip.
KPAX Weather Interactive Doppler Radar
KPAX Weather Radar is the modern machinery possessed by KPAX News. It is the team’s biggest asset and plays an important part in weather coverage. Meteorologists construct the hourly forecast and KPAX 7-day forecast based on the high-tech weather radar. The radar can be zoomed in as close as the street level and out as far as the state level. Different colors on the radar represent the different conditions of the KPAX weather.
KPAX Weather Cams
The following table covers the list of all the areas where KPAX Weather Cams are installed.
| Bozeman Stadium | KXLF Clock Tower | KTVQ Camera 1 |
| KTVQ Camera 2 | Opportunity Bank, 1400 Prospect Avenue, Helena MT | KTVQ Camera 4 |
| Great Divide Ski Area, Marysville, MT | St Patricks Hospital Missoula | KTVH, 100 West Lyndale Ave, Helena MT |
| First Security Bank Hamilton | St Joseph Medical Center Polson | First Security Bank at Hamilton High School |
KPAX News Mobile Apps
Besides providing on-air coverage, the channel also offers the station’s digital coverage over the website and mobile apps. KPAX News app covers breaking news Missoula, KPAX local news, and other Montana latest happenings. Meanwhile, its weather app KPAX STORMTracker Weather covers the Montana weather thoroughly.
KPAX News App
With the slogan, Montana’s News Leader, KPAX News app has everything for the common citizen of Montana. From Missoula News Today to KPAX Breaking News, KPAX local news, and others. The channel’s app is fast and user-friendly. Users can save the articles and stories which they can read after. Explore weather radar and forecast for minute-to-minute weather conditions. The powerful search engine allows the user to search for their specific exciting stories. Meanwhile, users can also watch KPAX live stream on their smartphones and tablets.
KPAX STORMTracker Weather
KPAX Weather app understands the weather in town comprehensively and presents the KPAX Weather forecast accordingly. Its 25m radar provides the HD image available. Meanwhile, users can get access to the current weather conditions updated frequently on an hourly basis. Its GPS allows the user to get real-time weather updates based on their exact location. The severe weather alerts will notify the user of storms, hurricanes, or other severe weathers of disaster level. KPAX Weather is all that you need to find exclusive weather reporting.
KPAX Popular Programming
CBS Missoula offers the latest programs ranging from (a travel show) to Bull (a TV series) and The Price is Right (a game show) to CBS Evening News (a news program). The audience can watch all these shows on Amazon Prime via KPAX live stream.
| Bob Hearts Abishola Sights and Bites | The Neighborhood Welcome to the Test Run | Bull Under the Influence | All Rise Caught Up in Circles |
| The Late Late Show With James Corden | The Price Is Right | Montana This Morning Early Edition | CBS Overnight News |
| The Bold and the Beautiful | Let’s Make a Deal | The Young and the Restless | KPAX 10:00 p.m. News |
| The Talk | The Kelly Clarkson Show | The Drew Barrymore Show | KPAX Noon News |
| Wheel of Fortune Mother’s Day | Jeopardy! | FBI: Most Wanted | CBS Overnight News |
| NCIS Misconduct | Kids Say the Darndest Things Wigging Out/ The Kids Price Is Always Right | S.W.A.T. Local Heroes | SEAL Team Do No Harm |
| United States of Al Fundraiser/ Baspana Towlawal | Young Sheldon A Black Hole | Mom A Community Hero and a Wide Turn | Clarice Add-a-Bead |
| B Positive Transplanticipation | MacGyver | Blue Bloods The New You | Magnum P.I. Bloodline |
About KPAX News
Channel 8 Missoula first hit the air as a semi-satellite of KXLF News in 1970. KAPX News’ initial owner was Garryowen Corporation as part of the Montana TV Network; the corporation was managed by Joe Sample. In 1977, KPAX launched new studios in Missoula’s Regent Street.
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For most of the time, KPAX News remained a part of the CBS Network. The channel, however, had a shared ABC affiliation with KGVO News until 1976. Later, they decided to discontinue the agreement when both KPAX News and KXLF put ABC in their primary slot, making CBS the secondary affiliate partner being attached with KGVO. In 1984, KPAX News came back to CBS and started airing ABC programming during off-hours along with KECI News until KTMF decided to hit the waves in 1990.
Sample, later, decided to sell the CBS Missoula along with other MTN channels to SJL, Inc in 1984 for 20m dollars. Eventually, in 1986, SJL sold KPAX 8, KRTV, and KXLF News in Great Falls to Cordillera Communications, the subsidiary of Evening Post Publishing company, for 24m dollars.
KPAX News studios are situated in Missoula’s West Central Avenue. Meanwhile, the channel’s transmitter is situated on the northside of a TV Moutain.
Channel 8 Missoula’s Semi-satellite Network
KAJJ-CD is the semi-satellite station of KPAX News that operates as an LP class A network’s on-air name is KAJ. The semi-satellite broadcasts the same programming as KPAX but with local news sections and commercials. In order to fulfill the requirements of being a Class-A network, KAJJ-CD also airs its own weeknight show at 5:30 pm and 10 pm. The exclusive news program was launched in 2010.
KAJJ first hit the waves with the calls K18AJ in 1984. The station originally used to work under the Telecrafter Broadcasting Corporation. The company’s principals Daniel W. Coon and Thomas A. Curtis, were shareholders in KYUS News Miles City and KOUS News Billings. They later decided to sell the station to Cordillera in 1988. In 2011, the station’s calls were changed to KAJJ-CA, and then in 2012, they became KAJJ-CD.
Website: https://www.kpax.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kpaxnews
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kpaxtv
Tower Location: TV Mountain north of the city
Brand Name: KPAX 8
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