9NEWS Sports anchor Jacob Toby is leaving KUSA on October 19th, he joined 9NEWS & Channel 20 in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, he is leaving to join the San Antonio Spurs as an on-air announcer for their broadcast booth.
Prior to 9NEWS & Channel 20, Jacob Toby worked at KJRH-TV "2NEWS" the NBC station in Tulsa, OK.
Jacob Toby (Photo: KUSA/KTVD)
It was announced today by Kronke Sports & Entertainment that select Colorado Avalanche games will be carried live by KUSA 9NEWS & KTVD Channel 20. The 2 signals will carry 20 games in total this season, and kronke sports & entertainment have also announced a new streaming service called "Alltitude +".
KUSA & KTVD will also carry 20 Denver Nuggets games this season, there is no word on if Colorado Mammoth games will get air time, this kind of brings the Denver Nuggets & Colorado Avalanche full circle as the 2 teams had there games on KTVD between 1991 & 1995.
More info here: https://www.9news.com/article/sports/local-sports/nuggets-avalance-schedule-9news/73-afb4fa4b-07f6-4d66-ad0e-11251f66a3b3
It was reported this evening that former 9NEWS anchor & investigative reporter Ward Lucas has died at age 75, he passed away Sunday September 15,2024. He was at 9NEWS for 30+ years before retiring in 2009. He started his broadcast career at KIRO7 in Seattle where he worked for 2 years before coming to Denver at KUSA.
He was also part of a Documentary on Mr. Ted Bundy the serial killer that was on Nexflix a few years back, In 1977 he flew to Aspen to cover the escape of Mr. Bundy from the Pitkin County jail, unbeknown to the news director at the time (as Aspen is outside of the KUSA viewing area).
He will be missed, no word on the cause of death.
Ward Lucas (Photo: KUSA TV)
Ward Lucas with former Anchor Anita Lopez (Photo:KUSA TV)
FOX31 launched a new :30min newscast today at 3:30PM--M-F.
FOX31 already has mostly news on the schedule anyways, they run newscasts from 4:30AM--Noon, 4PM,5PM,9PM,9:30PM, 10PM. Monday--Friday.
I almost wonder if FOX31 has over news saturated their schedule with news at this point? I know other FOX stations (Ie FOX O&O WTVT in Tampa, WJBK in Detroit & Fox Affillate WSVN in Miami) have a lot of newscasts but the Denver market is not a big as Tampa or Detroit.
Thoughts are welcome...
9NEWS @ 3PM Launched today, and it actually surprised me a bit... Why do I say this? Because given the time slot, I envisioned this newscast being full of "Fluff", soft news, entertainment,ect... But they were covering news. So I say keep it up!
I Believe this will be a good replacement for Daily Blast Live, and I could see this being a situation where this newscast is on the air for years to come, being in this time slot will also allow KUSA the ability to quickly react to Colorado's severe weather in the spring time, instead of having to bump network or syndicated programing. Plus KUSA launched updated opening sequences and has tweaked the graphics a bit.
So stay tuned. We are only at Season 1 Episode 1.
Reporter Kasia Kerridge has joined FOX 31 & Colorado's own channel 2, after spending the last 5 years at KKTV 11 in Colorado Springs / Pueblo. She was a morning reporter & weekend anchor at KKTV, you can now catch her reporting on FOX31 News & On Colorado's Own Channel 2 News weekdays.
9NEWS Will launch "9NEWS @ 3" Beginning Monday September 9, 2024. The national program Daily Blast Live will conclude it's run on Friday September 6, 2024. 9NEWS will now have 2 hours of news in the late afternoon. The new 3pm newscast will be anchored by Alexandra Lewis & Sam Schracher (currently a host of Daily Blast Live).
A little afternoon news history for 9NEWS:
KUSA will join several NBC stations & an ABC station with 3PM newscasts across the country, they are:
