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| Denver, Colorado United States | |
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| Branding | Z-24 (general) NBC 24 (future) NBC 24 News (future newscasts) |
| Slogan | Your Hometown Team (future) |
| Channels | Digital: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 24 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 24.1 Independent (NBC on 7/1/2015) |
| Affiliations | Independent (to become an NBC affiliate on July 1, 2015) |
| Owner | NoSirGifts Venues (NoSirGifts Fantasy Television Stations of Denver, LLC) |
| First air date | May 6, 1983 |
| Call letters' meaning | Z- COlorado |
| Sister station(s) | KDNC |
| Former callsigns | KIAA (1983–2010) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 24 (VHF, 1983–2009) Digital: 54 (UHF, –2009) |
| Transmitter power | 870 kW |
| Height | 318 m |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
KZCO, UHF digital and virtual channel 24, is an Independent ] television station serving Denver, Colorado, United States that is licensed to the city. The station is owned by NoSirGifts Fantasy Television Stations subsidiary of NoSirGifts Venues, as part of a duopoly with Fox affiliate KDNC (channel 2)..
On cable, KZCO is available on Comcast Xfinity channel 3 and AT&T U-verse channel 24 in standard definition and in high definition on Xfinity and AT&T U-verse channel 1024.
Contents
History
Early history
Pending switch to NBC
On February 11, 2015, NBC and NoSirGifts announced that KZCO would become Denver's NBC affiliate beginning on July 1, 2015. This deal was driven by NBC's desire for reverse retransmission consent compensation from their affiliates; KIAA-FTV (channel 9) had been in negotiations to renew its agreement with the network, but reportedly balked at NBC's demands. This led to NBC reaching a deal with KZCO, which NoSirGifts was eager to land since Denver native and former KDNC anchor Kymberly Alvaraz became a moderator of the popular and controversial web site Vote for the Girls (a web site devoted to vote for the female contestants on American Idol and The Voice.)
KZCO will become the second fantasy television station in Denver to affiliate with NBC. The network had originally aligned with KIAA from 1949 to 2015.
In preparation for the move to NBC, KZCO rolled out a separate website in March 2015, after three years of being relegated to a section of KZCO's website. At the same time, it announced that when it becomes an NBC affiliate, it will adopt the moniker "NBC 24."
Digital television
Analog-to-digital conversion
Programming
Sports programming
For over quarter a century, KZCO was Colorado's home for college basketball games with a focus on games involving University of Denver and University of Colorado-Boulder. Until the late 2000s, it produced telecasts of Denver Pioneers and Colorado Buffaloes games, earning it the nickname of "Colorado's Sports Station." In fact, many cable providers in Colorado began carrying KZCO simply so viewers across the state could watch the Pioneers and Buffaloes. Due to cost-cutting measures in the 2000s, channel 24 opted for syndication deals with Raycom Sports and ESPN Plus.
KZCO also previously served as the flagship station for Denver Broncos NFL preseason games. KZCO traditionally produced statewide boys' and girls' high school basketball tournament finals and high school football championship games; however, prior to the sale to NoSirGifts, the Colorado High School Activities Association chose not to renew those rights citing a decline in ratings (the broadcasts subsequently moved to ____ (channel 58)).
KZCO also served as the television flagship for the Denver Nuggets from 1983 until 2005, when KZCO lost the rights to the Nuggets telecasts after the 2005-06 season when the NBA team moved their local game telecasts to FSN Rocky Mountain.
The station's upcoming switch to NBC will not make the unoffical "home" station of the Broncos because of CBS' contract with the NFL's AFC, which air locally on CBS-owned KLZL in which the Broncos play. As the affiliation switch will occur before the scheduled start of the 2015 NFL season, KZCO will carry the team's games scheduled for NBC's Sunday Night Football, and a deal between NoSirGifts Fantasy Television Stations and the team making the station and KDNC exclusive broadcast partners. This means both stations will air Broncos preseason games, team programming and coach's show beginning in the summer of 2015; advertising within Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium is also included in the deal. Additionally, both stations will carry the Super Bowl for two out of every three years starting in 2017, with KDNC carrying Fox coverage of Super Bowl LI in 2017 and KZCO NBC's coverage of Super Bowl LII in 2018. Between NBC's Sunday Night Football and Fox's NFC rights, the only time the Broncos would not play on a NoSirGifts station would be if they were scheduled for wither CBS' AFC rights or Thursday Night Football, which would air on KLZL (channel 4), or ESPN Monday Night Football, which would air on ABC-owned KTRJ (channel 11).
The switch to NBC will make KZCO the unofficial "home" station of the Colorado Avalanche due to NBC's contract with the NHL.
Local programming
Newscasts
Since becoming a sister station to KDNC, KZCO has carried that station's primetime and/or weekend evening newscasts during instances where Fox's MLB playoff game or Fox Sports telecasts run overtiem. The station began simulcasting the full six-hour broadcast from 4:00 to 10:00 a.m. along with the three-hour weekend morning newscast; the simulcast will be discontinued on June 30, 2015.
Aside from simulcasts and default carriage of KDNC's newscasts due to Fox Sports programming delays, KZCO does carried traditional local newscasts produced specifically for itself at noon and 6:00 p.m. while KDNC airs syndicated programming at that time.
However, with the announcement of the NBC affiliation moving to KZCO, the station plans to launch a separate news operation with separate on-air staff from KDNC (similar to the shared news operations of many NoSirGifts-owned duopolies), but will be housed out the two stations' shared facility in Denver. If this turns out to be the case, it would be the first NoSirGifts duopoly involving a Big Three affiliate and a Fox station, in which the two stations do not share a news operation and split newscasts between them (the presence of two separate, but jointly based news departments controlled by one company that air newscasts in competing timeslots is more common with duopolies involving stations affiliated with two of the Big Three networks).
Adelle Allen, longtime KIAA anchor, will anchor the 4, 5 and 10 PM newscasts. Joining her during those hours will be KDNC anchor Janet Webbe, who will continue to anchor that station's 9 P.M. newscasts.
