Dave Young has retired from Colorado's Own Channel 2 & FOX 31.

Long time Denver anchor & reporter Dave Young has signed off after 33 years on the air.   He has covered some of the biggest stories in Colorado over that time. 

He joined KWGN in 1984 & joined KDVR in 2009 when the two stations merged.  

Dave enjoy your retirement!  

Here is a link to the article on Dave's retirement: http://kdvr.com/2017/12/27/channel-2-fox31-reporter-dave-young-retiring-after-33-years/ 















  A picture of Dave, from the early 1990s on KWGN.
  Current head shot from KDVR/KWGN.

KDVR Sold back to FOX?

There is a new twist to the merger between Tribune Broadcasting & Sinclair Broadcast Group--reports indicate that FOX Television Stations Inc wants some of it's stations. Some stations on this list would come back to FOX,  The list of stations that FOX wants are:

• KDVR FOX 31 (KFCT-22)
• WJW  FOX 8 
• WITI FOX 6 
• KTVI FOX 2
• KSWB FOX 5

All of Tribune's other stations would go to Sinclair.  There is no official announcement just yet.  All of these stations have 1 thing in common-- NFL football. FOX has been buying stations in NFL markets, so this kind of makes since.

H/T: FTVLive  < Sinclair/Fox Television Stations backroom deal  >

9NEWS & Channel 20 update there graphics.

9NEWS Has updated it's on-air graphics, the 2 biggest noticeable changes are the  9NEWS logo the red,white & blue lines are gone and the weather graphics are lot different, the "rundown" or the list of stories coming up has changed.    This look debuted on 4 O'Clock @ 9NEWS this afternoon.    This is part of a group wide graphics update, most Tegna stations should have this by the end of the year.

The 9NEWS logo with the red, white, & blue lines has been in place since 1984 the only difference it had the abc logo instead of the nbc peacock.

They have an article on the changes that can be found here:Weather Graphics Update

The website should be updated soon as Tegna stations are beginning to roll out update versions of there sites.  WXIA-11 Alive, already has the updated website.


OLD Weather Graphics:







                    
NEW Weather Graphics:

Denver November Sweeps

The November Sweeps period is over--some newscasts in Denver see double digit declines in viewership in November.
All Denver newscasts saw declines in viewership, some worse than others.

While 9NEWS (KUSA) is still #1 at 10pm it saw a 28% drop year over year, from 3.09% in Nov '16 to 2.23% this November.

FOX31 (KDVR) was down 12% at 9pm, 16% at 9:30pm & 16% at 10pm.

CBS4 (KCNC) was down 20% at 10pm

7NEWS (KMGH) was down 22% at 10pm

KUSA's loss translates to a loss of 15,000 viewers. This loss is because digital devices continue to draw people away from TV newscasts, especially among younger viewers.  

NEXT with Kyle Clark saw it's viewership increase with a 2.26 rating.  

While KUSA is still #1 in the Denver Market KDVR was a strong #2 during the November sweeps period.  Sinclair's takeover of KDVR & KWGN is expected in the 1st quarter of 2018.

MORE HERE: http://theknow.denverpost.com/2017/11/28/denver-tv-stations-sweeps-2017/168058/
h/t: The Denver Post.