KMGH, KCDO & KOAA have been dropped by DirecTV.

Scrips & DirecTV are now in a contract dispute KMGH & KCDO were dropped at 8PM Mountain Time.  

 

 In Colorado this affects 4 stations. 

    KMGH
    KCDO
    KZCO-LD 
    KOAA  

 

 We have a clock going on the front page, we'll see how long this lasts. 

 

  

  

 

   

 

 

KUSA/9NEWS is currently expierencing technical difficulties.

KUSA dropped out of the 3PM Newscast at 3:53PM with an extended commercial break, and is now showing taped programing and human interest stories & reports.   Four O' Clock @ 9NEWS is currently not on the air. 

 This only appears to be affecting KUSA/NBC.     KTVD Channel 20 appears to be unaffected. 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

UPDATE:  AT 4:30PM, KUSA returned to the air with no Graphics, No Music & No Video playback, also supposedly issues with NBC network playback.   

 

Denver7, KOAA NEWS5 & The Spot Denver3 are back on Xfinity.

After 34 Days and 23 Hours, Scrips & Comcast/Xfinity have reached an agreement to return scrips stations across the country to Xfinity's cable systems. 

In Colorado this affects 4 stations. 

• KMGH
• KCDO
• KZCO-LD 
• KOAA  

 

As of 4:30 this afternoon these stations have returned to cable lineups.

 

  

 

   

 

The F.C.C. has approved a major station swap between the E.W. Scripps Company & Gray Media.

Beginning today a major swap of licenses starts between television owners Gray Media & E.W. Scripps Company, this affects numerous stations across the country.  

More Specifically it affects 4 stations in Colorado.

• KKCO
• KJCT
• KKTV
• KOAA

Here is what is happening, Gray Television the owners of KKCO, KJCT-LD & KKTV has agreed to exit the Grand Junction/Montrose market, and give Scripps NBC Station KKCO & ABC Station KJCT-LD, while Gray will pick up NBC Station KOAA and merge it in with CBS Station KKTV in Colorado Springs/Pueblo. 

This swap also involves: KMVT & KSVT-LD in Twin Falls Idaho, KATC in Lafayette, LA & WSYM in Lansing, MI.     The biggest takeaway here is there will be NO AFFILIATION SWAPS as a result of this license trading.  

Both companies feel this will better strengthen, news operations and advertising opportunities at these respective stations.   

New Copyright tags at the end of newscasts, will most likely appear sometime today or early tomorrow morning, changing over of the stations websites could take a few weeks. 

It will also mean the KOAA News 5 will return to Xfinity sooner rather than later as it will be under a different contract.  

Here is an article from the Business Times about the swap: https://thebusinesstimes.com/tv-stations-kkco-kjct-moving-toward-new-ownership/ 

Anchor Jimmie Searfoss has joined 9NEWS & Channel 20.

 Anchor Jimmie Searfoss has joined the 9NEWS Sports team as the preps reporter, reporting on student athletes and high school sports across the Denver metro. 

Jimmie comes to 9NEWS & Channel 20 from KYTX---CBS19 in Tyler Texas, a 9NEWS sister station, he joined KYTX out of college.   He started on air this past weekend. 

 

  

Jimmie Searfoss  (Photo: KYTX)

 

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

 

Scripps / Comcast--Xfinity re-trans fight.

Scripps & Comcast are in a contract dispute, Comcast has removed dozens of Scripps stations across the country.  The removal happened at 3:59PM Local time (5:59PM EDT). 

In Colorado stations removed from Comcast's systems are:  KMGH--Denver7 ABC, KCDO---The Spot Denver 3 & KOAA---News5 NBC.  

No word at this time how long these stations will be off the air.   We have a counter going here on the blog as usual. 

TEGNA is still a compnay & is now a subsidiary.....

UPDATE: TEGNA,INC is now a Subsidiary of Nexstar as California, Colorado & other states have sued Nexstar & Tegna over the merger.  In essence this merger has been halted, a judge in California has ordered Nexstar to run Tegna as-is until a decision is made.

https://www.9news.com/article/money/business/judge-grants-temporary-restraining-order-pausing-nexstar-acquisition-of-tegna/73-1db7dfbe-c9a5-4151-92ac-b2c8fc612b04 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-pauses-merger-tv-station-owners-nexstar-tegna-rcna265626 

This means Nexstar can not terminate anyone or change any contracts of any Tegna station & it must leave the ad platform Permion & the Locked-On-Podcast network as-is and is not allowed to run them until the court has made a final decision, a hearing will take place on April 7th.

The court is looking at whether Nexstar has divested enough property, or if more divestitures are required, currently 6 are slated to go to another party/3 from Tegna & 3 from Nexstar.   The court is also going to look at whether Nexstar would be allowed to divest these stations to a "Partner" (IE:Mission Broadcasting, Inc), which while a separate company-relies on Nexstar heavily for operating it's stations websites & producing it's stations newscasts.  

Nexstar has not said yet who would buy the 6 stations that are to be spun off, Nexstar says that they have 6 months to spin these stations off.  

Currently the divested stations would be:

• KTVD  (My Network TV)
• WTHR (NBC)
• WCTX (My Network TV)
• WUPL (My Network TV) 
• WAVY (NBC)
• KNWA (NBC)