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* Ed Greene ([[American Meteorological Society|AMS]] Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6, 6:30 and 10 p.m.
* Ed Greene ([[American Meteorological Society|AMS]] Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6, 6:30 and 10 p.m.
* Dave Aguilera (AMS [[Certified Broadcast Meteorologist]] and [[National Weather Association|NWA]] Seals of Approval) - meteorologist; Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5:30 and weekends at 10 p.m.
* Dave Aguilera (AMS [[Certified Broadcast Meteorologist]] and [[National Weather Association|NWA]] Seals of Approval) - meteorologist; Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5:30 and weekends at 10 p.m.
* Justin McHeffey - weekend mornings
* Lauren Whitney - meteorologist; weekday mornings and noon
* Lauren Whitney - meteorologist; weekday mornings and noon


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KCNC-TV, virtual channel 4, is a CBS owned-and-operated station television station in Denver, Colorado, owned by CBS Television Stations, Inc. KCNC broadcasts on UHF channel 35 from Lookout Mountain near Golden, Colorado.

Digital programming

Digital channels
Channel Video Aspect Programming
4.1 1080i 16:9 Main KCNC-TV programming / CBS

Analog-to-digital conversion

On June 12, 2009, KCNC-TV left channel 4 and continued broadcasting on channel 35 to complete its analog to digital conversion.[1] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display KCNC-TV's virtual channel as "4".

History

As an NBC affiliate

The station first went on the air on December 24, 1953 as KOA-TV, co-owned with KOA radio (AM 850 and FM 103.5, now KRFX). It immediately took the NBC affiliation away from KBTV (channel 9, now KUSA-TV), due to KOA's NBC radio affiliation. It was owned by Metropolitan Broadcasting, a company partly owned by famed comedian Bob Hope.[2]

In 1965, KOA-TV carried most of NBC's American Football League games with Curt Gowdy doing play-by-play, but Denver Broncos home games had to be blacked out because none of them sold out. 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, KBTV news director Roger Ogden 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 the 1970s when it was known as "NewsWatch4" it aired its late evening weekend newscasts at 11pm.

KOA-TV was piped in by cable systems in Rapid City, South Dakota between 1972 and 1976, as Rapid City didn't have an NBC affiliate then; at the time, KOTA-TV was a "joint primary" affiliate of both ABC and CBS, and had no room on its schedule for NBC programs.

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 "First 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.

KOA-TV, which switched from logo to logo in the 1970s, stuck with this circle 4 logo until 1993.

In 1983, General Electric sold the KOA radio stations to A. H. Belo for $22 million. The sale forced General Electric to change Channel 4's call letters on Aug. 12. The new call letters, KCNC, stood 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.

On the evening of June 18, 1984 Alan Berg, who was hosting programs on both KOA-AM and KOA-TV was shot and killed in the driveway of his home 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 1990, KCNC paid $11,000 to another television station in Denver to carry election coverage using KCNC's reporters so KCNC could air its Tuesday night lineup, including Matlock and Heat of the Night.[3]

Switch to CBS

In 1994, CBS and Westinghouse Electric Corporation agreed to a long-term affiliation deal that saw three of Westinghouse's television stations become CBS affiliates, joining two longtime 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 found out it could not buy the station outright without going over the FCC's ownership cap of the time. To solve this problem, NBC offered to trade KCNC, KUTV in Salt Lake City and the channel 4 allocation and transmitter in Miami to CBS in return for WCAU.

On September 10, 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). KCNC's final NBC program was Saturday Night Live; NBC moved all of its programming to KUSA when it ended.

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 owned-and-operated station, the second time in the station's history that channel 4 has been owned by a major network.

In 1998, the American Football Conference of the National Football League (which absorbed the AFL and the Broncos in 1970) switched its games from NBC to CBS. KCNC regained the rights to the Broncos as a result, coinciding with their second straight Super Bowl championship, also the last season of fan favorite John Elway.

In 2002, Marv Rockford was forced out as general manager 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" under the CBS Mandate (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.[4]

Currently, KCNC is one of four network owned and operated television stations in Denver; the other three are Telemundo station KDEN (channel 25), Telefutura station KTFD (channel 14) and ION Television station KPXC (channel 59). It is also one of a handful of television stations which have been owned by two networks at separate points in its history. KDVR (channel 31) and KWGN (channel 2) were formerly O&Os of their respective networks (Fox and The WB).

News operation

KCNC-TV broadcasts a total of 27½ hours of local news per week (with 4½ hours on weekdays, and two hours on Saturdays, 3½ hours each on Sundays).

On April 21, 2008 Karen Leigh (who previously worked at KCNC's sister station WCCO-TV in Minneapolis-Saint Paul) replaced Molly Hughes as co-anchor of the weekday evening newscasts. Also, KCNC began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, becoming the second station (after KUSA) in the market to do so and the third station in the market to broadcast all programming in HD, behind KUSA and KTVD (channel 20). KCNC premiered the new HD graphics package during its noon newscast. The music package, "Newstime" was retained.

On May 27, 2010 KCNC joined other CBS O&O stations by releasing a new graphics package. The change mirrors the packages seen on WCBS and KCBS, whose openings involve a spinning glass CBS eye, and the station ID in the center, with video of various city and state landmarks, like downtown Denver and the Maroon Bells. The color scheme is now a dark blue with the glass CBS eye featured prominently. KCNC retained "Newstime" in its original format until October 6, 2011.

On June 13, 2011; KCNC brought back its 4 p.m. newscast, "CBS 4 News at 4" after cancelling it because of their commitment to the The Oprah Winfrey Show. On September 2, 2011, KCNC ended the 4 p.m. newscast and replaced it with Dr. Phil on September 5, 2011.[5] On October 6, 2011 KCNC mostly replaced "Newstime" [6] (with the exception that it is still used for sponsor spots) with The Enforcer Music Collection by Gari Media Group[7] which is inline with all owned-and-operated CBS stations.

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

  • NBC Choice Channel 4 (1953–1960)
  • KOA Channel 4 News (1960–1973)
  • Channel 4 News (1973–1977)
  • NewsWatch 4 (1977–1979)
  • NewsCenter 4 (1979–1988)[8]
  • News 4 Colorado (1988–2003)[9]
  • News 4 (2003–2005)
  • CBS 4 News (2005–present)[10]

Station slogans

  • "Channel 4, Colorado's Color Station" (1960s)
  • "Have a Ball This Fall on Channel 4" (1970–1975)
  • "This is TV-4, Colorado's News Service Station" (1975–1976)
  • "For Colorado, 4 Stands Alone" (1976–1977)
  • "Newswatch 4, Newswatching Out for You" (1977–1979)
  • "This is Channel 4, Colorado's News Channel" (1979–1986; used to open newscasts)
  • "Colorado's News Channel" (1985–2005)
  • "Proud To be Owned by NBC" (1986–1995)
  • "More Coloradans Get Their News from NEWS 4, Than from Any Other Source" (1993–1995; used during the close of the Colorado Evening News and NEWS 4 at 10)
  • "This is Who We Are, Still Colorado's News Channel" (September 1995; used to promote affiliation switch to CBS)
  • "The Spirit of Colorado" (1996–2002)
  • "Coverage You Can Count On" (2005–2007)
  • "CBS4 Is Always On" (2005–present; used only on CBS4DENVER.COM)
  • "Get The Whole Story" (2007–2010)
  • "On Your Side"(2012-present)

News team

Current on-air staff[11]

Anchors

  • Jim Benemann - weeknights at 5, 6, 6:30 and 10 p.m.
  • Alan Gionet - weekday mornings
  • Karen Leigh - weeknights at 5, 6, 6:30 and 10 p.m.
  • Tom Mustin - weekend nights at 5 and 10 p.m.
  • Brooke Wagner - weekday mornings and noon
  • Kathy Walsh - weekend nights at 5 and 10 p.m.; also Tuesday-Saturday health specialist

Weather team

  • Ed Greene (AMS Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6, 6:30 and 10 p.m.
  • Dave Aguilera (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and NWA Seals of Approval) - meteorologist; Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5:30 and weekends at 10 p.m.
  • Justin McHeffey - weekend mornings
  • Lauren Whitney - meteorologist; weekday mornings and noon

Sports team

  • Vic Lombardi - sports director; weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
  • Gary Miller - sports anchor; weekend nights at 5 and 10 p.m., also sports reporter

Reporters

  • Shaun Boyd - political specialist reporter
  • Jennifer Brice - general assignment reporter/anchor
  • Jodi Brooks - "On Your Side" consumer reporter
  • Stan Bush - general assignment reporter
  • Evrod Cassimy - general assignment reporter/anchor
  • Valerie Castro - weeknight reporter
  • Dominic Garcia - general assignment reporter
  • Michelle Griego - weekday morning and midday reporter
  • Dr. Dave Hnida - medical editor and reporter
  • Mike Hooker - Northern Newsroom reporter (also fill-in sports reporter)
  • Andrea Lopez - general assignment reporter
  • Brian Maass - "On Your Side" investigative reporter
  • Suzanne McCarroll - "On Your Side" Money Saver reporter
  • Greg Moody - critic-at-large and entertainment reporter
  • Jane Monreal - weekday morning traffic reporter
  • Howard Nathan - general assignment reporter
  • Gloria Neal - "Interactive Help Center" reporter
  • Brooke Rogers - general assignment reporter
  • Rick Sallinger - "On Your Side" investigative reporter
  • Jeff Todd - Mountain Newsroom reporter

Former on-air staff

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.

List of translators
City Callsign City Callsign City Callsign
Akron K35FI Anton K47FT Aspen K50IN
Axial Bason K50AE Bethune/Burlington K53AD Blue Mesa K30DL
Carbondale K45HL Collbran K13RD Cripple Creek K30IK
Estes Park K47EC Fraser K33BV Glen Haven K08IS
Glenwood Springs K11DI Grand Junction K45IT Grand Junction K43AB
Grand Lake K13EL Haxton K35GO Holyoke K17EU
Idalia/Southern Yuma County K18FO Julesburg K49IN Marvine Creek K39DD
Rangely K24DG Rio Blando Valley East K44AC Salida K11KU
Sterling K46CY Toponas K12KR Wolcott KRYD-LP
Yuma K34AC

See also

References

  1. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
  2. ^ Eggerton, John (2003-08-03). "Hope and Glory" ([dead link]). Broadcasting and Cable: 2.
  3. ^ "Zapped." US News and World Report 109.15 (1990): 24.
  4. ^ Husted, Bill (November 11, 2007). ""South Park" drops names, takes jabs". Denver Post. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
  5. ^ CBS4 drops 4 p.m. newscast
  6. ^ Newstime Package
  7. ^ Enforcer Collection Package
  8. ^ KCNC Denver: News Open - 1986 Weekend Edition
  9. ^ KCNC News 4 Denver 5PM Open (March 1998)
  10. ^ KCNC: CBS4 News at Noon (2010)
  11. ^ News Team
  12. ^ Wendy Bergen's Exclusive
  13. ^ Culver, Virginia (August 20, 2008). "Retired Denver news anchor Bob Palmer dies". Denver Post.
  14. ^ "Longtime TV anchor Bob Palmer dies". August 20, 2008.
  15. ^ http://denver.cbslocal.com/farewell–jennifer–zeppelin/

External links

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