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History

As an NBC affiliate

The station first signed on the air at 6:00 p.m. on July 1, 1948 as an NBC affiliate – it was the second television station to sign on in the Denver market, after KLZL-TV (channel 4). KIAA-FTV originally operated as a primary NBC affiliate with a secondary affiliation with the DuMont Television Network. The station also carried several CBS programs until KDNC signed on in October 1953.

Colorado Broadcasting became the United Broadcasting Corporation in 1957, with KIAA-FTV serving as the company's flagship station.

Losing NBC

On February 11, 2015, NoSirGifts announced that independent station KZCO-FTV would become the market's NBC affiliate on June 1, 2015, as part of an agreement that also renewed the NBC affiliations on NoSirGifts-owned stations in eight other markets. The deal, which will result in the end of KIAA-FTV's 67-year relationship with NBC, was reportedly struck as a result of KIAA station management balking at the network's demands for reverse retransmission consent compensation from its affiliates.

As the other major broadcast networks already owned other area stations (ABC owning KTRJ and CBS owning KLZL since 1995), KIAA announced on May 1, 2015 that it would become an independent station upon losing NBC, filling timeslots previously occupied by network shows with additional newscasts and an expanded inventory of syndicated talk shows, newsmagazines and sitcoms, including some relocated from sister station KDEN-FTV (channel 58) to make up for the station's loss of NBC's daytime and late-night programs on channel 9's schedule and a national news program from TouchVision to serve as a replacement for the Early Today.

However, on May 22, DakMedia announced that it would sell the market's MyNetwork TV affiliation to United Broadcasting (a deal that occurred a week after the completion of the company's merger with MHB Television). As a result, this triggered Denver's second affiliation switch with KIAA becoming a CW affiliate and taking sister station KDEN's CW affiliation in effect KDEN became a sole MyNetwork TV affiliate. The last NBC program to air on KIAA was American Odyssey that aired at 9:00 PM Mountain Time on May 31, 2015 and all NBC programming moved to KZCO after that program ended. The Bill Cunningham Show was the very first CW program to air on KIAA on June 1, 2015.

Programming

Syndicated programs broadcast by KIAA include Steve Harvey, Rachael Ray, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Family Feud, Access Hollywood, The Real and Entertainment Tonight. Atypical for a CW-affiliated station, the station does not currently air sitcoms within its weekday schedule – particularly during early evening and late-night timeslots not occupied by local newscasts (opting to fill those periods with talk shows and newsmagazines instead); however, KIAA airs runs of syndicated comedies broadcast otherwise by sister station KDEN on weekend late afternoons and evenings. The station also produces the hour-long talk and lifestyle program Denver Style, which airs weekday mornings at 9:00 a.m.

The station also carries the The Bill Cunningham Show at 1:00 p.m. weekdays, two hours earlier than The CW's recommended timeslot of 3:00 p.m., which has been the common scheduling for the program among CW stations with syndicated talk shows that pull stronger ratings and/or have full-fledged news operations; it also splits the network's educational programming block One Magnificent Morning over two days: the first two hours air on Saturdays on a four-hour delay (to 11:00 a.m.) due to the Saturday edition of its Colorado Daybreak newscast and paid programming, while the last two hours air on Sunday middays.

As an NBC affiliate, KIAA cleared the majority of the NBC network schedule in its later years, with exception of the Saturday edition of Today and the weekend editions of the NBC Nightly News, which aired instead on KDEN. KDEN also aired other NBC programs channel 9 was unable to air due to extended breaking news or severe weather coverage, or special programming.

Sports programming

In its later years as an NBC affiliate, KIAA aired most Denver Broncos regular season games as well as any playoff games involving the team through NBC, via the network's broadcast rights to the NFL's American Football Conference until 1998 when CBS when CBS acquired the rights to the AFC, and airing Broncos games scheduled for an NBC Sunday Night Football telecast from 2006 until 2014. KIAA also aired most Colorado Avalanche regular season games as well as any playoff games involving the team through NBC, via the network's broadcast rights to the NHL.

As a result the NBC affiliation moving from KIAA to KZCO in June 2015, the station's status as the unofficial "home" station of the Broncos and Avalance ended after the the respective 2014 NFL and 2014-15 NHL regular seasons. Consequently, it will no longer air any Broncos nor Avalanche related progamming after the 2014-15 season (except for Countdown to Kickoff and possibly Huddle Up Denver), nor will KIAA and KDEN be affiliated with the Broncos nor Avalanche. Broncos games continue to air on CBS-owned KLZL while Avalanche games will began to air on KZCO in October 2015. The coach's show and Broncos Up Close will move to KZCO and its sister Fox affiliate KDNC (channel 2), for the 2015 NFL season.^[1]

On March 20, 2015, United Broadcasting announced that KIAA and KDEN would become part of the Colorado Rockies broadcast television networks and carry many of the games the teams will broadcast locally in the Denver market. KIAA will have a Sunday-only schedule of games due to the contractual restrictions of their CW affiliation, with KDEN airing the remainder of the weekday schedule of games and a few Sunday games.