KDEN-FTV
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| Greeley/Denver, Colorado United States | |
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| City of license | Greeley, Colorado |
| Branding | My K-DEN TV (general) |
| Slogan | Whatcha Wanna Watch |
| Channels | Digital: 23 (UHF) Virtual: 58 (PSIP) |
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| Owner | United Broadcasting (Colorado Broadcasting, LLC) |
| First air date | November 1, 1977 |
| Call letters' meaning | KDEN (short for Denver) |
| Sister station(s) | KIAA-FTV, KIIM-FCD |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 284 m |
KDEN-FTV, virtual channel 58 (UHF digital channel 23), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated fantasy television station serving Denver, Colorado, United States that is licensed to Greeley. The station is owned by United Broadcasting, as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate KIAA-FTV (channel 9). The two stations share studio facilities located on Speer Street (at the north end of Denver's Television Row) in northwestern Denver; KDEN maintains transmitter facilities located in Westminister. On cable, KDEN is available on Comcast Xfinity and AT&T U-Verse channel 10 in standard definition and in high definition on Xfinity and AT&T U-verse channel 1010.
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History[edit]
Digital television[edit]
Digital channels[edit]
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP short name | Programming[1] |
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| 58.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KDEN-HD | Main KDEN-FTV programming / MyNetworkTV |
| 58.2 | 480i | 4:3 | Bounce TV | Bounce TV |
| 58.3 | 1080i | 16:9 | KIAA-HD | Simulcast of KIAA-FTV[2] |
KDEN formerly carried TheCoolTV on its second digital subchannel from 2010 to 2013, when United Broadcasting terminated its affiliation agreement with the music video network.
Analog-to-digital conversion[edit]
In October 2002, KDEN began transmitting a digital signal on UHF channel 23. KDEN-FTV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 58, 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 continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 23.[3][4] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 58.
Programming[edit]
Syndicated programs broadcast by KDEN include The Doctors, Cops Reloaded, Hot Bench, Community, and The Real. KDEN carried the Saturday edition of Today, with the last broadcast on May 30, 2015, and the weekend editions of the NBC Nightly News ending on May 31, 2015, in lieu of KIAA-TV (KIAA declined to air them in order to run expanded Saturday morning and weekend 5:00 p.m. newscasts). Occasionally as time permitted, KDEN aired other NBC programs that KIAA-FTV was unable to air due to extended breaking news or severe weather coverage, or other special programming. As a result of KIAA-FTV losing the NBC affiliation, KDEN also stopped airing select NBC programs after May 31, 2015 (KZCO cleared the entire NBC schedule upon joining the network on June 1, 2015).
Sports programming[edit]
Newscasts[edit]
In early 1991, then-ABC affiliate KLZL entered into a news share agreement with KDEN to produce a nightly half-hour primetime newscast at 9:00 p.m. for the station, titled News 4 at 9:00 on Fox 58 (the title later being revised slightly to correspond with KDEN's branding changes to "WB 58" in 1996, "UPN 58" in 2000, and "CW 58" in 2006), which debuted on March 11 of that year. The program originally competed against two longer-established 9:00 p.m. newscasts: KTRJ's 60-minute in-house newscast and another outsourced newscast on KZCO that was produced by then-CBS affiliate KDNC-FTV (channel 2) (both of those newscasts was cancelled in March 1996, after ABC and CBS respectively bought KTRJ and KLZL while KDNC switched from CBS to Fox).
KLZL terminated the news share agreement after KDEN was acquired by United Broadcasting; KIAA-FTV assumed production responsibilities for the newscast on __________, 2009, relaunching the program as 9 News at 9:00 on CW 58; the KDEN newscast briefly gained another competitor on that date when CBS-owned KLZL began producing a 9:00 p.m. newscast for its second digital subchannel, which was cancelled five months later on _______. On September 8, 2008, KIAA-FTV became the second television station in the state of Colorado and the Denver market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition; the KDEN newscast was included in the upgrade.
On _________, 2010, KIAA-FTV began producing an hour-long extension of its weekday morning newscast for KDEN, running from 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. The station also began producing a weekly interview program produced by KIAA, One on One with Ed Stardell, which was hosted by the former KIAA-FTV anchor; airing Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. (with a rebroadcast Saturdays at 6:00 p.m.), the program was cancelled in mid-2014. In 2013, the Sunday edition of the 9:00 p.m. newscast was expanded to one hour; the Monday through Saturday editions would follow suit on January 6, 2014, with the final 15 minutes of the program being padded out by a sports highlight program titled Sports Zone Tonight.[5]
On June 1, 2015, KIAA ceased producing newscasts for KDEN, as it moved the 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. newscasts to channel 9 when it lost NBC programming and became the market's CW affiliate on that date. However, KDEN airs an encore broadcast of Denver Style at 2:00 p.m. on weekdays.
