FCC Pauses it's review of Tribune/Sinclair merger.

The F.C.C. has paused it's review of two Denver TV Station's parent company's merger with Sinclair Broadcast Group for 15 days, after several groups filed opposition to the merger.  Some of the groups that oppose the merger are Douglas County based DISH Network, a trade group for Alaphabet-Google's parent company, Amazon, NewsMax group, Glenn Beck's "THE BLAZE" & many others.

Sinclair's proposed $3.9 billion deal was on day 104 of a 180-day process used by the FCC.

The deal would "cripple" a free and diverse press according to Newsmax.

H/T: The Denver Business Journal.

You can read more here (Note there might be a pay wall): https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2017/10/19/fcc-pauses-its-review-of-takeover-of-2-denver-tv.html









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KDVR Update's it's graphics & music.

Today FOX31 Updated it's graphics & music, the new graphics have a FOX O&O feel to them.  FOX31's other graphics were from 2011 and they had been updated in late 2015.  It appears this update is only on the KDVR side for now. We don't know if KWGN will get a graphics update or not.   I have to say so far I love the new graphics they are very clean looking.


Title card/ Logo from 2011-2017 


























Title card/Logo  2017-Present



   Old opening sequence graphics 2011-2017  (H/T: Newscast Studio & TVNewstalk.net)











New Graphics. (2017-Present)


 
 Old Graphics. (2011-2017)
 

Tom Green to join 9NEWS & Channel 20 in October.

Anchor Tom Green will be joining 9NEWS/NBC in late October, he will anchor the 4pm & 5pm newscasts.  He was a sports anchor at 9NEWS for more than 13 years back when KUSA was an ABC station.   According to The Denver Post he is one of the longest tenured anchors in the Denver market.   “I always figured I’d return to 9NEWS at some point,” Green told KUSA. “It’s where I started my career in Colorado and has always felt like home.”


H/T The Denver Post.
More here: http://theknow.denverpost.com/2017/10/12/denver-anchor-tom-green-9news/161941/

Here is an article from 9NEWS: http://www.9news.com/news/local/popular-denver-anchor-returns-to-9news/482790156

FOX31 KDVR & Colorado's Own Channel 2 KWGN get a new news director.

Brian Gergory will become the news director for FOX31 & Colorado's own Channel 2 effective October 9, 2017. He comes from Wichita's KWCH/KSCW/KDCU.  He has worked for KDVR GM Joan Barrett in the past.    H/T: ftvlive.com 

Here is the official news release from KDVR/KWGN: http://www.tribunemedia.com/brian-gregory-to-spearhead-news-for-fox31-and-colorados-own-channel-2/










          

9NEWS Temporally drops WeatherNation TV to cover Hurricane Harvey

At Noon Mountain time Sunday August 27, 2017 9NEWS temporally dropped Weather Nation TV's coverage of Hurricane Harvey and started airing a live simulcast from sister stations WFAA-TV in Dallas & KHOU-TV in Houston of the aftermath & major flooding of the Houston Metro Area from Hurricane Harvey.

You can watch this simulcast on 9NEWS over the air on 9.2, Comcast 249, & CenturyLink Prism 10.

I Don't know how long KUSA will air the coverage from Houston, so catch it if you can.

TO EVERYONE IN HOUSTON, I HOPE YOU ALL CAN DRY OUT AND REBUILD QUICKLY.

  

 

KDVR/KWGN News Director leaves the Duopoly.

Holly Gauntt has announced that she is leaving FOX31 & Colorado's Own channel 2, after two years at the stations, she is moving right across the street to 7NEWS, she will be replacing Lindsay Radford who left on June 3. 

KDVR & KWGN are waiting to see if a pending sale of the stations goes through. If it does the stations would then be owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.   Sinclair is currently the largest owner of FOX Affiliates in the country.   Some staffers at KDVR & KWGN are worried about Sinclair's "Must Runs" because so much of that content is right leaning. 

H/T: The Denver Post.
More here: http://theknow.denverpost.com/2017/07/12/sinclair-denver-tv-purchase-tribune-kdvr-kwgn-2017/150970/








 

Meterologist Cory Reppenhagen has joined 9NEWS & Channel 20.

Former 7NEWS Meteorologist Cory Reppenhagen has joined 9NEWS/Channel 20. 

He started today, and what a day to start, chasing severe weather in northeast Colorado with 9NEWS Meteorologist Becky Ditchfield.  And yes if you were wondering, there were Tornadoes in Weld County this afternoon. (That is north of the Denver Metro Area).  He left KMGH earlier this spring.