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Not to be confused with KOVR.

KDVR (channel 31) is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is simulcast full-time over satellite station KFCT (channel 22) in Fort Collins. The two stations are owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside CW owned-and-operated station KWGN-TV (channel 2). Studios and offices are located on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's Speer neighborhood. KDVR's transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain, near Golden, while KFCT's transmitter lies atop Horsetooth Mountain just outside Fort Collins.

KDVR
From top: a red box with a white Fox network logo above a white in a blue box with sublimated searchlights; and the word "DENVER" in all caps, in white, on a red box.
Channels
Branding
  • Fox31 Denver
  • Fox31 News
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KWGN-TV
History
First air date
August 10, 1983 (41 years ago) (1983-08-10)
Former call signs
KTMX-TV (1981–1983)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 31 (UHF, 1983–2009)
  • Digital:
  • 32 (UHF, until 2020)
Independent (1983–1986)
Call sign meaning
Denver
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID126
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT316 m (1,037 ft)
Transmitter coordinates39°43′42.1″N 105°14′15.7″W / 39.728361°N 105.237694°W / 39.728361; -105.237694
Translator(s)See below
Links
Public license information
Websitekdvr.com
Satellite station
KFCT
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
  • 22.1: Fox
  • 22.2: Antenna TV
  • 22.3: TBD
Ownership
Owner
  • Nexstar Media Group
  • (Tribune Broadcasting Company II LLC)
History
First air date
September 1, 1994 (30 years ago) (1994-09-01)
Former call signs
KWXU (CP, 1992–1993)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 22 (UHF, 1994–2009)
Call sign meaning
"Fort Collins Television"
Technical information[2]
Facility ID125
ERP50 kW
HAAT233 m (764 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°38′32″N 104°49′5″W / 40.64222°N 104.81806°W / 40.64222; -104.81806 (KFCT)
Links
Public license information

KFCT covers areas of northern Colorado, being that area's only full-power television station, that receive a marginal to non-existent signal from KDVR, though there is significant overlap between the coverage areas of both KDVR and KFCT's signals otherwise (including in Fort Collins proper and the nearby cities of Greeley, Windsor and Longmont). On-air references to KFCT are limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)–mandated hourly station identifications during newscasts and other programming. Aside from the transmitter, KFCT does not maintain any physical presence locally in Fort Collins.

History

Early history

In 1977, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received two applications to build new television stations in Denver. One came from a subsidiary of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, while the other was filed by La Unidad Broadcasting Corporation, headed by Denver broadcaster George Sandoval.[3][4] While the commission adjudicated the applications, channel 31 in Denver made television history in February 1980 as the first ever satellite-fed translator with a direct program source, KA2XEG (also known as K31AA), was launched by the Spanish International Network.[5][3]

On February 24, 1981, the FCC granted the construction permit to La Unidad Broadcasting.[4] Two months later, however, their plans for a Spanish-language television station met with an unexpected dose of reality. The 1980 United States Census reported that 92,000 Hispanics lived in the Denver city limits. While Sandoval suspected that was an undercount of what he estimated were 125,000 Hispanics, the reliance of advertisers and other groups on census figures convinced the company that there was no market at the time for a Spanish-language station in Denver. As a result, La Unidad opted to pivot its plans for what was originally designated KTMX-TV. In late 1981, it sold 80 percent[6] of the construction permit to Centennial Broadcasting Corporation, a subsidiary of Camellia City Telecasters and majority-owned by Business Men's Assurance Company (BMA) of Kansas City, Missouri (with Sandoval staying as manager), and plans were changed to operate a full-service English-language independent station incorporating programming for Hispanics in Denver. At that time, work was already underway on constructing a new tower atop Lookout Mountain and remodeling the former studios of KWGN-TV at 550 Lincoln Street.[7][8]

Construction stretched into 1983, intermittently affected by weather at the transmitter site,[6] and the station began broadcasting on August 10.[9] It was the first new commercial station in Denver since KBTV (channel 9) debuted in 1953 and offered a mix of syndicated reruns and movies.[6] Centennial spent $7 million on the station's facilities.[10] The station also joined a consortium of Spanish-language TV stations outside of the Spanish International Network for advertising sales in Spanish.[11] Camellia City Telecasters launched a third independent station in October 1983, KPDX serving the Portland, Oregon, market.[12] It then sued Tribune Broadcasting and Chris-Craft Industries, alleging that the two groups (which owned KWGN-TV in Denver and KPTV in Portland, their two independents' chief competition) had pooled their buying power and denied Camellia City the ability to bid on syndicated shows for their own stations.[13]

KDVR became a charter affiliate of Fox at its launch in October 1986.[14] Fox programming helped the station charge higher advertising rates[15] close the gap with KWGN; from sign-on to sign-off, by February 1990, channel 31's ratings were only slightly behind those of channel 2.[16]

Chase and Renaissance ownership

BMA put its Denver and Sacramento television stations on the market in October 1988.[a] It was the second time the company had done so; in 1985, all three had been on the market and attracted bids from such major players as Taft Broadcasting and Gaylord Broadcasting, but the startup KDVR and KPDX weighed down the value of the highly profitable KTXL.[18] While a buyer was found for KTXL in December 1988,[19] KDVR was sold to Chase Communications of Hartford, Connecticut, in March 1989 as the company's third television station.[20]

The sale announcement came days before founder Sandoval was killed in a car accident at the age of 57;[21] when KDVR moved from 550 Lincoln to a building at 5th and Wazee streets later that year, it was dedicated in his honor.[22] The former studio building was then demolished three years later.[23] The new facility, however, soon proved inadequate for the station's long-term goals. It was cramped, isolated, and suffered from cellular interference issues.[24]

Chase closed on its purchase of KDVR in March 1990. Between Hartford's WTIC-TV, KDVR, its acquisition of two stations owned by Outlet Communications, and the affiliation of Chase-owned WPTY-TV in Memphis, Tennessee, with Fox, the group grew to five Fox affiliates by that July.[25]

In 1991, Chase Broadcasting announced it would sell some or all of its properties in order to invest in new business ventures in Eastern Europe after the end of the Cold War, particularly successful cable television systems in Poland.[26] The next year, it sold four of the five Fox affiliates, including KDVR, to Renaissance Broadcasting of Greenwich, Connecticut.[27]

Chase was approved by the FCC in 1992 for a construction permit to build channel 22 in Fort Collins (located 63.5 miles (102.2 km) north of Denver) as a satellite of KDVR.[28] In November 1994, the station signed on the air as KFCT, expanding coverage to parts of northern Colorado and far southern Wyoming.[29]

Fox Television Stations ownership

Renaissance sold KDVR and KFCT to Fox Television Stations for $70 million on November 15, 1994, in exchange for acquiring that network's owned-and-operated station in Dallas–Fort Worth, KDAF. Fox was selling KDAF because it was moving its programming to the previous CBS affiliate, KDFW, as a result of a ten-station affiliation deal with New World Communications.[30]

Fox was highly interested in the Denver market. Previous rumors had tied the network to a trade with Tribune of KDAF for KWGN-TV or with relocating to one of Denver's network affiliates,[31] though the market's ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates instead exchanged affiliations among themselves.[32]

As part of a series of attempts to prevent News Corporation, the parent company of Fox, from acquiring additional stations, NBC filed a request to the FCC to reject the trade, on the grounds that the company was in violation of foreign ownership rules (which prohibit a foreign-owned company from maintaining more than a 25% interest in a U.S. television station).[33] Foreign ownership had been a sensitive issue for Fox even prior to the New World deal. In 1993, its attempt to acquire WGBS-TV in Philadelphia was derailed after an objection was filed on ownership grounds.[34][35] In the wake of the objection, the FCC opened a foreign ownership review into Murdoch's existing station holdings; had it ruled negatively, a forced ownership change or license loss could have meant the end of the network.[36]

It was not until July 1995, when Fox won approval to buy KDVR and two additional stations in Boston and Memphis, that the foreign-ownership issue was solved, removing a roadblock to purchases by the company.[37][38] Even then, Fox's desire for a lower channel number in Denver was the subject of rumors; one October 1995 article in Variety suggested that Fox wanted to sell KDVR to Qwest Broadcasting, a company backed by Quincy Jones and Tribune, and move its affiliation to KWGN-TV, leaving KDVR with The WB.[39] A February 1997 article in Mediaweek floated that KDVR could have been part of a trade with Belo Corporation to acquire a station in Seattle.[40]

Fox desired to begin airing local news programming, but it lacked the space to do so. On February 21, 1998, the company announced that it would build a 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m2) facility on the corner of Speer and Lincoln—the very site from which KWGN-TV and KDVR had started broadcasting, 30 years apart. This would be the third building overhaul project in the Fox Television Stations group in three years, following previous builds for KTTV in Los Angeles and KRIV in Houston. Once the building was complete, the station would add 60 employees and launch a 9 p.m. newscast.[41][42] Ground was broken in April 1998,[43] and the first KDVR newscast aired on July 16, 2000.[44]

File:KDVR31.png
KDVR logo used from 2008 to 2011.

Local TV and Tribune ownership

File:KDVR Logo.png
KDVR logo used from 2011 to 2017.

On December 22, 2007, Fox Television Stations entered into an agreement to sell KDVR and seven other Fox owned-and-operated stations to Local TV LLC, a holding company operated by private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners), adding to the nine stations that the group had acquired that May from The New York Times Company. The sale was finalized on July 14, 2008.[45] Two months later, on September 17, Tribune Broadcasting announced that Local TV would begin managing KWGN-TV under a local marketing agreement and consolidate its operations with KDVR effective October 1. It was one of two markets where Local TV-owned Fox stations and Tribune-owned CW affiliates would share resources, alongside KTVI–KPLR-TV in St. Louis, and built on an existing management relationship between the companies.[46] KWGN vacated its longtime studios in Greenwood Village and consolidated its operations with KDVR at its Speer Boulevard facility. Tribune bought KDVR outright in 2013 as part of its $2.75 billion acquisition of Local TV LLC.[47] the sale was finalized on December 27.[48]

Tribune sold the KDVR–KWGN studio to Urban Renaissance Group, a real estate firm from Seattle, in 2017, continuing to lease it back under a long-term agreement.[49]

Sinclair purchase attempt; sale to Nexstar

Further information: Attempted acquisition of Tribune Media by Sinclair Broadcast Group

In May 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced its intention to buy Tribune Media.[50] KDVR was then identified as one of 23 stations that Sinclair would divest to obtain regulatory approval for the merger,[51] with Fox Television Stations agreeing to a repurchase as part of a $910 million deal.[52] Both transactions were nullified on August 9, 2018, following Tribune Media's termination of the merger agreement[53] and FCC chairman Ajit Pai's public rejection of the deal.[54]

Nexstar Media Group announced it would acquire the assets of Tribune Media on December 3, 2018, for $6.4 billion in cash and debt.[55] The deal closed on September 19, 2019.[56]

Local programming

News operation

See also: KWGN-TV § News operation
 
A KDVR and KWGN-TV outside broadcasting van in Casper, Wyoming during the 2017 total solar eclipse

Chatter about a local newscast for KDVR first surfaced under Renaissance ownership in 1994.[57] This continued after Fox took ownership of channel 31, but the primary obstacle was a lack of room. KDVR's Wazee Street building was 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) in size, and Fox believed it needed 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2) to start a newscast.[24] Upon announcing the construction of the News and Technology Center, with 70,000 square feet (6,500 m2) of space, Fox also announced it would begin producing local news in Denver when the building opened; general manager Robert M. Simone promised that "local news done 'Fox-style' will further bond KDVR to the community".[42]

The first step in organizing the news department was made in September 1999, when a news director was hired.[58] More hires were made in the final weeks of 1999 and first months of 2000, including consumer reporter Tom Martino;[59] David Treadwell, former Denver Broncos kicker, to anchor sports;[60] news anchors Libby Weaver, former co-host of the syndicated entertainment news program Extra, and Ron Zappolo, former KCNC and KUSA sports anchor crossing over to news;[60][61] and former KUSA reporter Phil Keating.[44]

After the Technology Center opened, rehearsals began in May,[62] and the hour-long Fox 31 News at 9 O'Clock debuted on July 16, 2000.[44] With Fox's successful Sunday night lineup, the main news anchors appeared on a Sunday–Thursday shift instead of a more typical Monday–Friday schedule.[63] Out of the gate, the 9 p.m. newscast was a strong ratings performer, outrating the established 9 p.m. newscast on KWGN-TV as well as the entertainment programming KDVR had aired in that hour.[64][65] In July 2001, a year after starting up, KDVR was beating ABC affiliate KMGH-TV, the traditional third-rated station, in the ratings, even though their newscasts aired at different times.[66] While KWGN-TV remained competitive, logging a head-to-head win in November 2002,[67] KDVR gradually pulled away from its competitor.[68]

The program was originally anchored by Ron Zappolo (who previously served as a sports anchor at KCNC and KUSA) and Libby Weaver (who joined the station from WMAQ-TV in Chicago and had formerly hosted the syndicated entertainment news program Extra), who both served as lead anchors for the newscast from its inception until Weaver's departure in 2012.

KDVR expanded news programming to mornings on March 22, 2004, with the debut of Good Day Colorado, which was created to compete with KWGN's weekday morning newscast, WB2 Morning News.[69] Initially a 2½-hour newscast beginning at 5:30 a.m.[70] Good Day expanded over time into a four-hour block beginning at 5:00 a.m. In January 2005, KDVR began producing a 5:00 p.m. newscast on Saturday evenings; this was later followed by the launch of a half-hour 5:30 p.m. newscast on weekdays in September 2008.

After entering into the local marketing agreement, major changes were made to KDVR and KWGN's evening news programming that reduced overlap between the stations. KWGN discontinued its 5:30 p.m. newscast on January 12, 2009, while KDVR expanded its early evening newscast to an hour at 5:00 p.m.[71] Two months later, on March 30, KWGN moved its prime time newscast two hours earlier to 7:00 p.m., making the unusual move of airing The CW programming from 8–10 p.m. with the network's blessing.[72]

News expansions continued in the 2010s. On June 28, 2010, KDVR added a half-hour 10:00 p.m. newscast titled Fox 31 Nightside, which focused on hard-hitting enterprise stories.[73] In 2016, KDVR began airing an 11 a.m. news hour and a 4:30 a.m. extension to Good Day Colorado.[74]

On June 1, 2014, KDVR debuted #COpolitics – From the Source, an unconventionally formatted Sunday morning political discussion program that is taped at The Source food market in Denver.[75]

Sports programming

On August 7, 2014, KDVR entered into a partnership with the Denver Broncos to broadcast the team's weekly coaches show, Broncos Zone, which was known as Fox on Fox when John Fox was the head coach; it airs during the season on Friday evenings, replacing half of the 9 p.m. newscast, and is hosted by sports director Nick Griffith.[76]

Other programming

In addition, the station produces Everyday, an hour-long lifestyle program which originated as an afternoon program on sister station KWGN in 2008 as Everyday with Libby and Natalie (then hosted by evening anchor Libby Weaver and reporter Natalie Tysdal); the program moved to KDVR on March 1, 2010, effectively moving to late mornings with the move.

Notable former on-air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

The stations' digital signals are multiplexed:

Subchannels of KDVR[79] and KFCT[80]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
KDVR KFCT KDVR KFCT
31.1 22.1 720p 16:9 KDVR-DT KFCT-DT Main KDVR/KFCT programming / Fox
31.2 22.2 480i Antenna Antenna TV
31.3 22.3 TBD-TV TBD
2.1 720p KWGN-DT KWGN-TV / The CW

In December 2020, KWGN-TV began broadcasting in ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) format. At that time, KWGN-TV's main signal was moved to the KDVR-KFCT multiplex.[81]

Analog-to-digital conversion

KDVR shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 31, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 32, using virtual channel 31.[82] The station was then repacked to channel 36 in 2020.[79]

Translators

In addition to KFCT, KDVR is relayed on the following translator stations::[83]

Notes

  1. ^ KPDX in Portland was sold in late 1986 to a minority investor in Camellia City in exchange for full ownership of KTXL the next year.[17]

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