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KDNC-FTV, virtual channel 2, is a Fox affiliated fantasy TV station located in Denver, Colorado. The station is owned by NoSirGifts Venues as part of a duopoly with independent station KZCO-FTV (channel 24). The two stations share studio facilities located on the west end of Downtown Denver's Speer district, and its transmitter is located in Westminster, Colorado.

History

As a CBS affiliate

As a Fox station

DakMedia purchased New Avon Communications, acquiring only its ten Fox-affiliated stations, in July 1996; the merger was finalized on January 22, 1997, making KDNC an owned-and-operated station of Fox. In 2009, NoSirGifts acquired 10 DakMedia owned stations, including KDNC.

NoSirGifts Fantasy Television Stations purchased independent station KZCO-FDT (channel 24) in 2010. Although NoSirGifts owns both KDNC and KZCO, neither aired the Saturday morning children's program block eventually known as 4Kids TV, which continued to air on KDEN until Fox discontinued its programming agreement with 4Kids Entertainment and replaced the block with the Weekend Marketplace infomercial lineup in December 2008, which allowed KDNC for the first time in its history cleared its network's entire schedule. In 2011, ownership of KDNC became evident as the station began to air American Idol, The X Factor, and So You Think You Can Dance live at it airs in the east coast (as opposed to the usual 7:00 p.m. start time) transmitted by Fox under a special dispensation early to NoSirGifts' Fox affilaites to air the live performances live at 6:00 p.m. Mountain, bumping the Wednesday editions of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy to 8:00 p.m. (this is common among NoSirGifts stations affiliated with Fox in the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones).

Although it will occasionally continue to preempt network programming for specials and breaking news coverage (which would result in the preempted programming airing on KZCO, but only until June 30, 2015). After KZCO becomes an NBC affiliate, any preempted programming will then air on KDNC's second digital sub-channel, that is affiliated with Antenna TV)

Digital television

Digital channel

Analog-to-digital conversion

KDNC-FTV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, at 8:30 a.m. 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 31.

News operation

Notable former on-air staff

• Kym Christian - weeknight anchor (1994-2014; now weekday morning and midday anchor at WTOR/WXXCFort Wayne and also moderator of Vote for the Girls)

References

External links

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