9NEWS@3PM Launched today... A fast review!

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 joins FOX 31 & Colorado's Own Channel 2.

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 to Launch an aditional hour of news begining September 9th, 2024.

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:

• 9NEWS tried a 4pm newscast in 1988 to compete against NBC O&O KCNC's long established hour long "NEWS4 First News" which launched in September 1983, this newscast lasted a year & was only a :30 min newscast.    
• From 1992--1995 they had a :30min newscast in the slot with Anne Lanker called "9NEWS 4:00" that focused on lighter news fair, compared to KCNC's "First News" at the time. 
• The present day-"Four O'Clock at 9NEWS" re-launched to a regular newscast and to a full hour on Monday September 11, 1995 with Kim Christianstan & Paul Johnson, after the "Big Switch" from ABC to NBC, the morning before.
  
• In early 1996 Ed Greene joined Kim Christiansan at the desk, with Mike Nelson.
• In 2000 after Ed Greene went back to KCNC, Mark Koebrich joined Kim on the Desk, with Kirk Montgomery and was there until his retirement in 2016, when Tom Greene took over.
• Until the early 1990 or 1991 9NEWS also ran an hour long 5PM Newscast before moving ABC World News Tonight into the 5:30 time slot, a move they continued with NBC Nightly News.
  

 KUSA will join several NBC stations & an ABC station with 3PM newscasts across the country, they are:

• NBC2 (WBBH-DT Ft. Myers/Naples)
• NBC4 (KNBC-DT Los Angeles)
• WSMV4 (WSMV-DT Nashville)   

• ABC7 (KABC-DT Los Angeles) 

 

 

Meterologist Chris Spears has joined 9NEWS & Channel 20.

Meteorologist Chris Spears has joined 9NEWS & Channel 20, on the 9NEWS Weather Impact Team. 

He will most often be seen on the weekend newscasts.  Before 9NEWS & Channel 20 he was a Meteorologist for several years on CBS NEWS Colorado.  He left KCNC in September 2022.

He also owns his own small business, 2 gift shops in Olde town Arvada.  

  

Chris Spears (Photo: KCNC TV/CBS) 

 

 

 

Ed Greene retiring from 9NEWS & Channel 20.

 Ed Greene retired from 9NEWS & Channel 20 this morning after 47 years in Denver TV, longer than anyone else in Denver TV history.  He has had stints at all of the major stations in Denver..   

He started off at KMGH in the booth announcer position and 1 day a week weather, then went to KCNC from the early 1980s to 1996, then to 9NEWS from 1996--2001, then back to KCNC from 2001--2017, then "Retired" until 9NEWS came calling in February 2021 for a temporary gig, where he has been doing the morning forecast for the last 4 years on Mile High Mornings.

Ed good luck with your retirement, you will be missed on TV. 

 

Ed Greene  (Photo: KUSA/9NEWS)

KMGH & KCDO Started broadcasting from it's new studio location in north Denver today.

KMGH--Denver7 started broadcasting news from it's new state of the art facility as of the 5PM newscast today.  They moved from there longtime facility at 123 East Speer Boulevard to a new studio at 2323 Delgany Street in the five points neighborhood of Denver, this move also included KCDO-Local3.   They started transmitting ABC programing from the Delgany studios at 7AM Monday morning with Good Morning America & KCDO programing moved over to the new facility at 9AM Monday morning.

The new studios are a former we-work building on Delgany street, they have been working on this building for months getting it ready for today.   For 70+ years they broadcast from the studios at Speer & Lincoln in Denver, across the river from FOX31 & Channel 2, and down the street from 9NEWS & Channel 20.    The new studios are much larger than what they had on East Speer, with a larger newsroom space and larger studio space as well.

 

 

Old Studios @ 123 East Speer Boulevard. 

 

New Studios @ 2323 Delgany Street.  

 

 

 

Sports reporter Arielle Orsuto is leaving 9NEWS & Channel 20 after this week.

Sports reporter Arielle Orsuto is leaving 9NEWS & Channel 20 after this week, according to an announcement on her facebook page. She goes on to say she will reveal her next plans sometime this upcoming week.   She has been with 9NEWS & Channel 20 for 5 years.  

Arielle good luck on your next adventure

UPDATE: According to The Denver Gazette, she will be joining 9NEWS & Channel 20 sister stations, KING5 NEWS & KONG 16 in Seattle,WA.