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.

 

 

CBS4 & CBS are back on DISH Network.

After 3 days CBS & CBS4 Are back on DISH Network after coming to an agreement.  The deal happened late yesterday--after the NFL Game had concluded.
It's a multiyear agreement for carriage of CBS, CBS Owned & Operated stations, the POP Network, CBS Sports Network & Smithsonian channel.


More Info here: http://deadline.com/2017/11/cbs-and-dish-network-carriage-agreement-1202214324/







 

CBS 4 & CBS Are off of DISH Network.

CBS 4--KCNC-TV & CBS are off of DISH Network after failing to come to an agreement on a new carriage contract, this does not include KKTV CBS11 in Colorado Springs/Pueblo or KREX News channel 5 Grand Junction/Montrose, these stations aren't owned by CBS.  There is a dispute over how much reverse compensation DISH is willing to pay CBS to carry the network and it's Owned & Operated stations.    We have a clock on the right hand side of the blog that will be up until CBS & DISH come to an agreement.   

DISH Network & CBS are in contract talks.

DISH Network may drop CBS O&O Stations nationwide November 20, 2017 at 11:59PM Mountain Time, over a re-trans dispute.   These disputes have become quite common over the past decade and DISH isn't the only provider to have this issue, DirecTV, the former Bright house Networks, Cablevision, & Time Warner Cable have all had disputes with the owners of various local affiliates over the past decade.    The last 2 disputes in Denver have been between Gannett (now Tegna)& DISH owners of KUSA & KTVD  , and Tribune & DirecTV owner of KWGN & KDVR .    Most of the time these disputes get resolved before the signals get pulled, will it happen this time?  I Guess we will find out.

Here is the website from CBS4 & CBS Television Stations Inc explaining the issue: http://www.keepcbsondish.com/denver