Billings: Communications

Newspapers and Magazines

Billings has one major daily newspaper, The Billings Gazette (morning). Weekly papers focusing on business, agriculture, and general news include Agri-News, Montana Farmer, and Western Livestock Reporter. Montana Land Magazine is published quarterly.

Television and Radio

Bresnan Communications provides cable television and high-speed internet service in Billings. All four major television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox) broadcast to the Billings area. 13 AM and 19 FM radio stations can be picked up in the Billings area.

Media Information: The Billings Gazette, PO Box 36300, Billings, MT 59107; telephone (406)657-1200; toll-free (800)543-2505; email gbruce@billingsgazette.com

Billings Online

Big Sky Development Authority. Available www.bigskyedc.org

Billings Area Chamber of Commerce. Available www.billingschamber.com

Billings Convention and Visitors Bureau. Available billingscvb.visitmt.com

Billings Cultural Partners. Available www.downtown billings.org

The Billings Gazette. Available www.billingsgazette.com

Billings Public Schools. Available www.billings.k12.mt.us

City of Billings home page. Available ci.billings.mt.us

Montana Labor Market Information. Available jsd.dli.mt.gov/lmi/lmi.htm

Parmly Billings Library. Available www.billings.lib.mt.us

Selected Bibliography

Raban, Jonathan, Bad Land: An American Romance (New York: Pantheon, 1996)

Van West, Carroll, Capitalism on the Frontier: Billings and the Yellowstone Valley in the Nineteenth Century (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993)