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KDVR, virtual channel 31 (UHF digital channel 32), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Denver, Colorado, United States. The station is owned by Local TV (run by private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners), KDVR operates CW affiliate KWGN-TV (channel 2) through a local marketing agreement with that station's owner Tribune Broadcasting. The two stations share studios on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's Speer neighborhood (to the immediate south of KMGH-TV's studios), and KDVR's transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain, near Golden.
It operates a satellite station: KFCT (UHF digital channel 21, virtual channel 22.1 via PSIP) in Fort Collins as that area's only full-power station, covering areas of northern Colorado receiving a marginal to non-existent signal from KDVR. Though KFCT operates as its satellite, KDVR limits on-air references to the station to FCC-mandated hourly station identifications during newscasts and other programming.
KDVR first went on the air on August 10, 1983 as the first new commercial television station to sign on in Denver in 30 years, and as the first full-service UHF television station in the state of Colorado.
KDVR presently broadcasts 36½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6½ hours on weekdays, and two hours on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output of any television station in Colorado. As is standard with Fox stations that carry early evening weekend newscasts, KDVR's Sunday 5 p.m. newscast is subject to preemption and the Saturday 5 p.m. newscast is subject to delay due to sports coverage.
In 2000, KDVR began making plans to produce a primetime newscast to compete with KWGN's longer-established 9 p.m. newcast; the station built an entirely new "news and technology center" in downtown Denver to house the new news department. KDVR became the last Fox-owned station to date to begin producing local newscasts on July 16, 2000, with the premiere of Fox 31 News at 9 O'Clock. Former KCNC-TV and KUSA-TV sportscaster Ron Zappolo and former WMAQ-TV reporter and Extra host Libby Weaver joined KDVR, and were the lead anchors for the newscast from its inception until Weaver's departure in 2012. KDVR debuted a weekday morning newscast called Good Day Colorado on March 22, 2004, to compete with KWGN's morning newscast (known then as WB2 Morning News). Initially a 2½-hour newscast beginning at 5:30 a.m., Good Day expanded over time into a four-hour block beginning at 5 a.m. In 2005, KDVR began producing a 5 p.m. newscast on Saturdays, which was later followed by a half-hour 5:30 p.m. weekday newscast in September 2008. As of 2008, the primetime newscast has done very well against its competition, while the morning newscast has lagged behind.
Under the local marketing agreement, the news operations of both KDVR and KWGN have changed to benefit both stations as best as possible. While it does hinder both stations, KDVR and KWGN each produce weekday morning newscasts from 5 to 9 a.m. Besides competing with KWGN, the 7-9 a.m. block of the newscast also competes with the KUSA-produced weekday morning newscast on KTVD. KWGN discontinued its 5:30 p.m. news broadcast on January 12, 2009, while KDVR expanded its early evening newscast to a full hour from 5 to 6 p.m. Also, prior to the LMA, both stations had competing hour-long primetime newscasts at 9 p.m. KWGN moved its late evening newscast to 7 p.m. (an unusual timeslot for a network-affiliated station in the Mountain Time Zone) on March 30, 2009 to avoid competition with KDVR's 9 p.m. newscast and scaled back the program to weekdays only, leaving KDVR's only 9 p.m. news competitor also being a KUSA-produced newscast on KTVD. There is a considerable amount of sharing between KDVR and KWGN in regards to news coverage, video footage and the use of reporters; though both outlets maintain their own primary on-air personalities (such as news anchors and meteorologists) that only appear on one station; several KWGN on-air staffers that remained with the station after the LMA was formed joined KDVR's news staff with the consolidation of news departments, with most of KDVR's news staff also appearing on KWGN's newscasts as well. On June 28, 2010, KDVR added a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast named Nightside, which focuses on more hard-hitting stories than the local news programs seen on the other major network affiliates during the same timeslot. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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