Sean McNamara Joins KDVR Denver As News Director
Sean McNamara is the new news director at KDVR and KWGN, Nexstar’s Fox and CW affiliates in Denver. He joins from WDAF, Nexstar’s Fox in Kansas City where he has been the news director since 2019.
TV Stations Get Help With Outside Media Management
Local broadcasters that have budgets to buy outside media face a dizzying array of options. To help navigate the landscape, KDVR Denver and WCNC Charlotte, N.C., are working with Media Partners to make the most of their options.
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KDVR-KWGN Helping Boulder Wildfire Victims
Nexstar Media’s Fox affiliate KDVR Denver has hired Talya Cunningham as anchor/reporter for Fox31 News effective Jan. 3, 2022. She will anchor the hour-long weekday 4 p.m. news along with […]
Nexstar’s Fox affiliate KDVR Denver named Erika Gonzalez co-anchor of FOX31 News at 5, 9 and 10 p.m. The six-year station veteran will join current anchor Jeremy Hubbard effective immediately. […]
Nexstar Media’s Fox affiliate KDVR Denver has hired Ashley Ryan as co-anchor of Fox31 Morning News effective Aug. 16. She will team with current anchor Kirk Yuhnke from 4:30 to […]
National Sales Manager Opening In Denver
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an openings for a national sales manager at Nexstar’s Fox and CW affiliates in Denver.
Creative Services And News Openings
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a creative services photographer-editor and a promotions producer and assignment editors for Cox, Nexstar, Capitol Broadcasting and Quincy stations.
The debut on KDVR and KWGN marks the company’s 12th market and 22nd station to roll out ATSC 3.0 in this year. Nexstar plans to convert 32 more stations in 20 additional markets in 2021
Nexstar Names Grandy GM Of Denver Duopoly
Veteran media industry executive Byron Grandy moves from WNCN Raleigh, N.C., to lead KDVR, KWGN and their related websites and mobile applications.
FCC Votes to Approve La Plata Market Mod
The FCC commissioners signaled Wednesday (June 12) that they have voted in favor of a proposal to modify the satellite markets of KDVR, KCNC, KMGH and KUSA, all Denver, to include a so-called orphan county in Colorado that had been receiving out-of-state TV station signals from Dish Network and DirecTV due to the way the Nielsen market was drawn up.
KDVR-KWGN Campaign Supports Police And Their Families
KDVR Denver Tests AlertMe Engagement Tool
AlertMe, an audience engagement tool for online content publishers, announced a successful pilot with Tribune Broadcasting’s KDVR Denver (DMA 17). An AlertMe button at the bottom of stories enables the […]
These days, staying competitive means more than just refreshing the faces reading the news. That has forced not only television stations but all news media to experiment with digital formats and other types of engagement as viewers — particularly younger ones — melt away from traditional delivery methods and turn toward mobile and online consumption.
KDVR-KWGN Adds Meteorologist Jessica Lebel
KDVR Reporter Says She Quit Over Death Threats
KDVR Denver Debate Promo A Knockout
Police-TV ‘Partnership’ In Manhunt Questioned
Boulder police used a helicopter shared by four Denver stations to help catch a shooting suspect during a manhunt. Some say the arrangement falls into a grey area of media ethics.
Shake-Up At KWGN-KDVR: Mike Landess Returns
Sports Anchor Raul Martinez Leaves KDVR
With the entry of Tribune’s Denver Fox affiliate KDVR into the 11 a.m. local news contest, the competition for tenths of a rating point is becoming more intense.
KDVR Expands Early- And Mid-Morning News
Tribune’s Fox affil KDVR Denver will launch a weekday 11 a.m. newscast beginning April 11 and start its morning newscast, Good Day Colorado, a half-hour earlier at 4:30 a.m.
At KDVR Denver, No Power, No Problem
High winds causing a power outtage shortly before the 5 p.m. newscast didn’t stop Tribune’s Denver Fox affiliate KDVR from putting on a show Thursday evening. They went old-school, just short of candelabras on the anchor desk.
Joan Barrett Named GM Of KDVR-KWGN
Tribune brings in the former president of Sunflower Broadcasting to lead the Fox-CW operations in Colorado.
