KBMY

KBMY (channel 17) in Bismarck, North Dakota, and KMCY (channel 14) in Minot, North Dakota, are television stations affiliated with ABC and CBS. The two stations are owned by Forum Communications Company and serve as semi-satellites of WDAY-TV in Fargo. KBMY has a news bureau and advertising sales office on North 15th Street in Bismarck and is broadcast from a transmitter located near St. Anthony, North Dakota. KMCY has a local office on 2nd St SE in Minot and is broadcast from a transmitter near South Prairie. KBMY and KMCY went on the air in March and June 1985, respectively, as westward extensions of WDAY-TV. Previously, there was no full-time outlet for ABC programs in western North Dakota, making it one of the few areas of the country that still lacked full service from the Big Three networks. From 1986 to 1989, KBMY–KMCY had its own news department, producing local newscasts that were combined with content from WDAY-TV. From 2002 to 2016, other regional broadcasters—first KNDX–KXND and later KX Television—provided advertising sales services and transmission capacity in Dickinson and Williston to KBMY–KMCY. Since 2014, WDAY has simulcast its Fargo-based newscasts on the stations, with a statewide focus. In 2026, subchannels of KBMY and KMCY assumed the CBS affiliation for western and central North Dakota from KX Television.