St. Regis, Montana

St. Regis is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mineral County, Montana, United States. The population was 319 at the 2010 census.

Geography

St. Regis is located at 47°17′58″N 115°6′1″W / 47.29944°N 115.10028°W / 47.29944; -115.10028 (47.299477, -115.100277), at the confluence of the St. Regis River and the Clark Fork. It is on Montana Highway 135, a shortcut to Glacier National Park.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km²), all of it land.

Climate

This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, St. Regis has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.

Demographics

As of the census of 2010, there were 319 people, 135 households, and 73 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 381.4 people per square mile (146.5/km²). There were 161 housing units at an average density of 194.9 per square mile (74.9/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 95.87% White, 2.54% Native American, 0.32% Asian, and 1.27% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.54% of the population.

WNYA

WNYA is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the Capital District of New York State and Western New England. Licensed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 13 (or virtual channel 51.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on the Helderberg Escarpment west of New Salem, New York (a hamlet of New Scotland). Owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, the station is sister to NBC affiliate WNYT and the two television outlets share studios on North Pearl Street, along NY 32/Wolfert Avenue, in Menands (with an Albany postal address). Syndicated programming on WNYA includes Family Feud, The Wendy Williams Show and among others.

History

Establishment of channel 51

What today is WNYA can indirectly trace its history to WVUW, an un-built station on channel 51 in Pittsfield. WVUW was granted a construction permit in 1984, but was deleted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1990. In October 1996, Pappas Telecasting applied for a new permit for this allocation; however, in 2001, the FCC placed the channel up for auction. In addition to Pappas, which by then planned to use the station as an Azteca América affiliate, bidders included Hubbard Broadcasting, Equity Broadcasting, the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and Venture Technologies Group. When the auction took place in February 2002, Venture Technologies ended up with the winning bid for $1.3 million. The FCC granted the construction permit and the WNYA call sign to Venture a year later. To accommodate the new WNYA, WNYT moved its Adams translator, which had broadcast on channel 51 since 1984, to channel 38.