 For most of its time as a commercial station, KMTF was owned by Rocky Mountain Broadcasting Company, which was 51% owned by Uhlmann/Latshaw Broadcasting (itself jointly owned by The Uhlmann Company and Latshaw Enterprises until early 2014, when Uhlmann bought Latshaw's stake) and 49% owned by Meridian Communications; a $60,000 purchase of Uhlmann/Latshaw's stake by Meridian, proposed in 2006, was dismissed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on November 4, 2014.From October 13, 1999 until August 15, 2005, Sunbelt Communications Company (now known as Intermountain West Communications Company), owner of NBC affiliate KTVH (channel 12), programmed KMTF under a time brokerage agreement; the agreement had been assigned to Sunbelt by Meridian, who had operated KMTF since its 1998 launch.Concurrent with the termination of the time brokerage agreement, Sunbelt entered into a joint sales agreement with Rocky Mountain, supplemented on August 30 with a shared services agreement.