KCNC-TV
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| KCNC-TV | |
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| Denver, Colorado | |
| Branding | CBS 4 (general) CBS 4 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Get the whole story |
| Channels | |
| Subchannels | 4.1 CBS |
| Translators | (see article) |
| Owner | CBS Corporation (CBS Television Stations, Inc.) |
| First air date | December 24, 1953 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Colorado's News Channel (former slogan) |
| Former callsigns | KOA-TV (1953-1983) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 4 (1953-2009) |
| Former affiliations | NBC (1953-1995) |
| Transmitter Power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 374 m |
| Facility ID | 47903 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 39°43′51″N 105°13′54″W / 39.73083°N 105.23167°W |
| Website | www.cbs4denver.com |
KCNC-TV, channel 4, is the CBS owned-and-operated television station in Denver, Colorado. Its digital (channel 35) transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain near Golden, Colorado.
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[edit] History
The station first went on the air on December 24, 1953 as KOA-TV, co-owned with KOA radio. It immediately took the NBC affiliation away from KBTV (channel 9, now KUSA), due to KOA's NBC radio affiliation. It was owned by Metropolitan Broadcasting, a company partly owned by famed comedian Bob Hope.[1]
In 1965, KOA-TV carried the 14 NBC AFL Football games with Curt Gowdy doing play-by-play, but the Denver Broncos games had to be blacked out due to a lack of sell-out games in Denver.
In 1967, KOA-TV aired an award winning documentary, The Acid Test, LSD. Five months in the making, with more than 5,000 feet of film shot, LSD was hosted by news editor Bob Palmer. Photographers involved included Bill Baker, Medill Barnes, Jerry Curran, Sam Houston and Barry Trader.
In 1968, KOA-AM-TV was sold to General Electric for $10 million.
In 1969, 10 p.m. anchor Bob Palmer left Channel 4 for Channel 7, to replace John Rayburn, who went to a station in Kansas City.
In 1981, Roger Ogden, News Director at KBTV Channel 9, was hired by KOA-TV as General Manager. Ogden brought Marv Rockford and John Haralson with him. Ogden named George Caldwell, Sam Allred and Ron Zappolo as Channel 4's number one news team. Also joining the station that year were Janet Zappala and Alan Berg.
In 1982, Bill Stuart left KMGH Channel 7 for KOA-TV and Linda Farrell, Sylvia Cordy, Jeff Hullinger, Stephanie White, Merrie Lynn, Tom Martino and Tom Bear all joined the station. In June, KOA-TV premiered "Frist News," a half hour from 4:30-5 p.m., co-anchored by Larry Green and Linda Farrell. Suzanne McCarroll was the featured reporter on the new show. Also in 1982, KOA-TV pilot/reporter Karen Key, 28, and mechanic Larry Zane, 28, died when Copter4 slammed into a snowy stand of pine trees near Larkspur, Colorado, while en route to the crash site of a commuter airplane. She was promoted as the first female news helicopter pilot and reporter. Her blood alcohol content was reported to be 0.09, just below the legal limit of 0.10.
In 1983, General Electric sold KOA-AM 850 and KOA-FM (now KRFX) 103.5 to A. H. Belo Corp. of Dallas for $22 million. The sale forced General Electric to change Channel 4's call letters on Aug. 12. The new call letters, KCNC, stand for Colorado's News Channel. Also that year, Peter Rogot was named weekend anchor at Channel 4 and Marty Aarons joined Bob Palmer and Janet Zappala in anchoring duties. Others joining Channel 4 were Wendy Bergen, Karen Layton, Marcia Neville, Tom Raponi and Mike Silva. Marv Rockford was promoted to News Director.
In 1984, Alan Berg, who was hosting programs on both KOA-AM and KOA-TV Channel 4 was shot and killed in the driveway of his home on the evening of June 18, 1984 by members of a White nationalist group called The Order. Berg was an attorney who was known for taking a largely liberal stand on issues and was, at times, abrasive and combative to callers and guests who held opposing views.
In 1986, General Electric bought NBC, making KCNC an NBC owned-and-operated station (and the first network-owned station in Colorado).
By 1990, KCNC-TV was broadcasting nearly 40 hours of news per week, nearly all of its non-network hours. General Manager Roger Ogden felt his station's money was better spent on local programming than paying syndicators of national shows.
In 1994, CBS and Westinghouse Electric Corporation agreed to a long-term affiliation deal that saw all five of Westinghouse's television stations become CBS affiliates. This switch included KYW-TV in Philadelphia. After NBC won a bidding war for CBS' longtime O&O in Philadelphia, WCAU-TV, NBC offered to trade KCNC, KUTV in Salt Lake City and the channel 4 allocation and studios in Miami to CBS as compensation for the loss of WCAU.
On September 9, 1995, KCNC became Denver's CBS affiliate in a move that saw all three of Denver's "Big Three" networks switch affiliates. Denver's longtime CBS affiliate, KMGH-TV, went to ABC because KMGH's owner, McGraw-Hill, had recently struck an affiliation deal with ABC, while longtime ABC affiliate KUSA-TV took the NBC affiliation, probably by default (although KUSA's owner, Gannett, already owned a number of NBC affiliates, and today, most of Gannett's stations are still NBC affiliates).
Under the terms of the CBS/Westinghouse deal, CBS sold controlling interest in KCNC to Westinghouse's broadcasting division, Group W. Later in 1995, CBS and Westinghouse merged, making KCNC a CBS O&O, the second time in the station's history that channel 4 has been owned by a major network.
In 2002, Marv Rockford was forced out as GM of KCNC and replaced by Walt DeHaven. Tony Lopez moved from San Antonio to join Channel 4. In 2003 the lead news team at Channel 4 was Molly Hughes and Bill Stuart anchoring the 10 p.m. news, with Brian Maass and Rich Sallinger as reporters. In 2003, Channel 4 was rebranded as "CBS4" (although it retained the "News4" moniker for its newscasts for another two years).
The station was featured in the 2007 film Blades of Glory, and along with other stations in the Denver market has been mentioned on South Park, which takes place in Colorado. One episode mentioned Ron Zappolo as still being with Channel 4, although he now actually anchors at KDVR.[2]
On April 21, 2008, Karen Leigh (formerly of the Twin Cities' WCCO-TV) replaced Molly Hughes as co-anchor of the weekday, evening newscast. Also, KCNC began broadcasting newscasts in high definition, becoming only the second station (behind KUSA) in the market to do so. They are the 3rd station to broadcast all programing in HD, behind KUSA and KTVD. KCNC premiered the new HD package during their noon newscast. The music package, "Newstime" was retained.
Currently, KCNC is one of four network owned and operated television stations in Denver; the other three are Telemundo's KDEN, Telefutura's KTFD and ION's KPXC. KDVR and KWGN were formerly O&Os of their respective networks (Fox and The WB).
[edit] Translators
The Denver market includes large portions of Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming. KCNC serves this vast area with one of the largest translator networks in the country. All translators are in Colorado unless otherwise listed.
- K35FI - Akron
- K47FT - Anton
- K50IN - Aspen
- K50AE - Axial Bason
- K53AD - Bethune, Burlington
- K30DL - Blue Mesa
- K10HE - Buford
- K08GZ - Carbondale
- K45HL - Carbondale
- K13RD - Collbran
- K02CB - Craig
- K06CI - Craig
- K30IK - Cripple Creek, ETC.
- K56AD - Crystal, ETC.
- K04GM - Divide Creek, ETC.
- K04JL - East Elk Creek
- K02CQ - Elk River Valley
- K47EC - Estes Park
- K63AJ - Flagler-Seibert
- K33BV - Fraser, ETC.
- K08IS - Glen Haven
- K11DI - Glenwood Springs
- K45IT - Grand Junction
- K43AB - Grand Junction, ETC.
- K13EL - Grand Lake
- K09GO - Hamilton
- K68AR - Hartsel
- K35GO - Haxton
- K06CE - Hayden
- K17EU - Holyoke
- K18FO - Idalia & S. Yuma Cty
- K49IN - Julesburg
- K08ER - Leadville
- K39DD - Marvine Creek, ETC.
- K08EC - Maybell
- K09FE - Meeker
- K09JT - New Castle, ETC.
- K24DG - Rangely
- K02IO - Redstone, ETC.
- K44AC - Rio Blanco Valley East
- K63BM - Rulison, ETC.
- K11KU - Salida, ETC.
- K10IW - Snowmass at Aspen
- K11FW - Steamboat Springs
- K46CY - Sterling
- K12KR - Toponas
- K10IQ - Upper Divide Creek
- K12DQ - Williams Fork
- KRYD-LP - Wolcott, ETC.
- K34AC - Yuma
[edit] Current Personalities
[edit] Anchors
Weekday
5, 6, & 10
Morning & Noon
Weekend
Evenings
- Alan Gionet (also Wednesday-Sunday reporter)
- Kathy Walsh (also Health Specialist seen Tuesday-Saturday)
Mornings
- Ericka Lewis (also Wednesday-Friday reporter)
[edit] Weather Team
- Dave Aguilera, weekend evenings meteorologist (NWA/AMS)
- Ed Greene, chief meteorologist/weekday evenings (AMS)
- Stacey Donaldson, weekday mornings/noon (NWA/AMS)
- Jennifer Zeppelin, weekend mornings (NWA/AMS)
[edit] Sports Team
- Vic Lombardi, sports director/weekday anchor
- Gary Miller, reporter
- Reggie Rivers, weekend anchor
[edit] Reporters
- Anna Alejo, Education Specialist seen weeknights
- Katherine Blake, weeknight reporter
- Shaun Boyd, daytime reporter
- Jodi Brooks, weeknight reporter
- Lynn Carey, Traffic Specialist seen mornings and early evenings
- Raj Chohan, general assignment reporter
- Paul Day, Environmental Specialist seen middays and early evenings
- Michelle Griego, Weekday mornings/midday reporter
- Dr. Dave Hnida, Health Specialist
- Mike Hooker, Northern Newsroom correspondent
- Terry Jessup, Political Specialist
- Andrea Lopez, Mountain Newsroom corrsepondent
- Brian Maass, investigative reporter
- Suzanne McCarroll, Health Specialist seen early evenings
- Greg Moody, Critic-at-Large and entertainment reporter seen at 6:30 PM
- Rick Sallinger, investigative reporter
- Karlyn Tilley, general assignment reporter
- Molly Hughes, special assignment reporter
[edit] Past Personalities
- Marty Aarons, news anchor (went to WGRZ in Buffalo)
- Luan Akin, Copter4 Reporter, retired
- Dick Albert, weather anchor (now with WCVB in Boston)
- Ralph Allen, political reporter
- Sam Allred, weather anchor (1976-1983)
- Steve Alvarez, sports anchor
- Carlos Amezcua, news anchor (was with KTLA in Los Angeles, CA, now on KTTV in LA)
- Steve Anderson, weather anchor/environmental reporter (1982-1989)
- Bill Barker, anchor, announcer 1960s, 70s
- Alan Berg, KOA radio and TV talk show host
- Wendy Bergen, reporter (1983 - 1990), resigned in the wake of a scandal in which Bergen and two other KCNC personnel were indicted for staging an illegal pit bull fight for a story. [3]
- Ed Bates, reporter
- Larry Blunt, news anchor (1991-1995), left the night of the Affiliate Switch.
- Ed "Weatherman" Bowman, weather anchor, deceased, member of the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame
- Byron Brown, news anchor
- George Caldwell (Sells), news anchor (now with WAFB in Baton Rouge, LA)
- Dan Caplis, legal reporter
- Kristi Carson, Fill-In meteorologist
- Stephen Clark, reporter, news anchor
- William "Bill" Clark, consumer reporter, retired
- Rosemary Collins, news anchor
- Marty Coniglio, Chief Meteorologist (1988-1995) Now with KUSA-TV
- David Crabtree, News Anchor, reporter (1991-1994) Now With WRAL-TV
- Steve Daniels, reporter
- Clyde Davis, anchor, reporter
- Keith Eldridge, Colorado Springs Bureau Reporter (Now with KOMO-TV in Seattle, WA)
- Laurie Everett, weather-caster, 70s
- John Ferrugia, News Anchor and investigative reporter, now at KMGH
- Mike Fierberg, business reporter
- Linda Farrell, news anchor
- Vince Gonzalez, reporter, now with CBS in NY
- Steve Gray, reporter
- Larry Green, weather anchor (1982-2006), retired to Alabama
- Penny Griego, news anchor (1983-1986), moved to KCBS Los Angeles, now KFWB New Radio, LA
- Mark Grimm, reporter
- Thelma Gutierrez, reporter, now in LA
- Jane Hampden, morning news anchor, reporter
- Jim Hanchett, reporter
- Wayne Herman, business reporter seen mornings
- Cynthia Hesson, reporter
- Jim Hooley, morning anchor (now at KMGH-TV)
- Haney Howell, Reporter
- Morris Jones, Noonday anchor
- Karen Key, helicopter pilot
- Katie Keifer, news anchor
- Phil LeBeau, Boulder Bureau reporter 1988-1996 (Went to MSNBC now at CNN)
- Karen Layton, education reporter
- Tony Lopez, weekend anchor, now at KOVR/KMAX in Sacramento
- Steve Lusk, reporter
- Theresa Marchetta, news anchor, now with KMGH
- Jean Martirez, reporter, now in LA
- Marty Matthews, weather anchor, now news anchor at WTSP-TV, Tampa-St. Petersburg
released from station 4/1/09
- Bob Martin, sports anchor
- Tom Martino, consumer reporter, now at KDVR
- Tom Maule, weather anchor (1978-1981)
- Kristin McCloskey, news anchor
- Madeline McFadden, news anchor
- Leo McGuire, Colorado Getaways host
- Mark McIntosh, sports anchor, now host of "Colorado & Company" at KUSA
- Jennifer Miller, reporter
- Dave Minshall, reporter
- Ken Montoya, reporter
- Reynelda Muse, news anchor (1969-80 and 1984-97)
- Marcia Neville-Burke, sports reporter, now at KDVR
- John Nickel, reporter
- Bob Palmer, news anchor (1957-68 and 1982-97) (deceased)
- Philip Palmer, news anchor on KABC in LA
- Ed Pearl, weather anchor
- Tony Pepper, news anchor
- John Rayburn, anchor 1960s
- Gillian Rice, reporter
- Richard Riggs, investigative reporter
- Stephanie Riggs, anchor (1994-2006)
- Peter Rogot, anchor/reporter (1981-1991)
- Norvell Rose, entertainment reporter (1980-?)
- Russell Ruffin, reporter
- Scott Sander, news anchor
- Deanna Sauceda, reporter
- Chris Schauble, news anchor, now in LA
- Les Shapiro, sports anchor (1984-99)
- Pete Smythe, host of "Tin Cup Alley" in 1960s
- Mark Soicher, sports anchor (Now with KWGN-TV)
- Aimee Sporer, news anchor (1992-2002)
- Tricia Springer, PM Magazine anchor
- Bill Sternoff, news anchor
- Bill Stuart, news anchor (1981-2004), retired to Alabama
- Dalton Tanonaka, anchor/reporter. Now in Indonesia
- Jim Thomas, meteorologist
- Stephanie White, news anchor
- Jim West, criminal justice reporter
- Mark Wiskup, financial reporter
- Christina Yao, reporter, now in Houston
- Janet Zappala, anchor/reporter (1982-84) (Now at CN8 1996-Present)
- Ron Zappolo, sports anchor (1977-90), now anchor at KDVR (Fox Denver)
- Larry Zimmer, sports (also longtime play-by-play broadcaster for the Denver Broncos)
[edit] Newscast Titles
- Channel 4 News (1970s)
- News Watch 4 (1970s)
- NewsCenter 4 (1970s-1988)
- News 4 Colorado (1988-2003)
- News 4 (2003-2005)
- CBS 4 News (2005-present)
[edit] Station Slogans
- This is TV-4, Colorado's News Service Station (1975-1976)
- For Colorado, 4 Stands Alone (1976-1977)
- Colorado's News Channel (1985-2005)
- Proud to be owned by NBC (1986-1995)
- We're 4 Colorado (1992-1994) Based on the Successful WNBC Slogan "Were 4 New York"
- The Spirit Of Colorado (1996-2002)
- Coverage You Can Count On (2005-2007)
- Get The Whole Story (2007-present)
[edit] Digital television
On June 12, 2009, KCNC-TV left channel 4 and continued broadcasting on channel 35 to complete its analog to digital conversion. [4] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display KCNC-TV's virtual channel as "4".
[edit] See also
- KOA AM
[edit] References
- ^ Eggerton, John (2003-08-03), "Hope and Glory", Broadcasting and Cable: 2, http://www.allbusiness.com/medicine-health/diseases-disorders-respiratory/6207248-1.html
- ^ ""South Park" drops names, takes jabs". Denver Post. http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment_old/ci_7423001. Retrieved on 2008-07-07.
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
[edit] External links
- cbs4denver.com
- From Black & White to Digital Color: Channels 4 & 7 Turn 50
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KCNC-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KCNC-TV
- Grand Jury Probe: TV journalists indicted for illegal dogfight. [2]
- Pilot error? A TV chopper pilot dies [3]
- Broadcast Professionals of Colorado: The History of Television in Denver [4]
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