KUSA Denver

Patti Dennis, a powerhouse TV news director, has spent over 30 years living by daily and hourly deadlines, watching the clock, counting stories by minutes and seconds at Gannett’s NBC affiliate KUSA Denver. She is a fierce competitor, overseeing 55 hours of newscasts per week on KUSA and co-owned MNT affil KTVD. Additionally, she is in charge of news for Gannett-owned stations regionally, content on the KUSA website and on the local Telemundo station (a corporate cousin), and now, in charge of recruiting nationally for the parent company.

TV stations to be honored for their outstanding community service are KUSA Denver; KOBI Medford, Ore.; and WCVB Boston. The ceremony will be held in Washington on June 17.

KDVR Denver has been in Super Bowl planning mode for six weeks as the station that will broadcast the Broncos-Seahawks game Feb. 2. Now it’s all hands on deck with well over 100 people in Denver, plus 21 in New York/New Jersey poised for coverage. What can the Fox affiliate actually show, since CBS affil KUSA is the official Broncos station with exclusive access to players, locker rooms, game footage and team management?

KUSA Denver sports photographer Brian Olson makes an incredible one-handed catch on a 54-yard field goal by Matt Prater that ricochets off the upright. And his shot remains steady the whole time.

Gannett NBC affiliate KUSA Denver (DMA 17) and the Denver Business Journal announced a new content partnership Wednesday. Exclusive DBJ stories will be featured each Friday as part of Gregg […]

The 24/7 weather diginet wll air on the Gannett NBC affiliate’s 9.2 subchannel.

Denver Fox affiliate KDVR has retracted a report that the grandson of a prominent gunmaker was detained for questioning by authorities after rival KUSA uncovered details that indicate the story was a hoax.

Station winners include KUSA Denver, KARE Minneapolis-St. Paul, KMGH Denver, Hearst Television and Belo Corp. The awards from the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism  will be presented at the National Press Club in Washington on April 19.

For 10 months, a team of reporters from Gannett-owned NBC affiliate KUSA and Digital First Media-owned Denver Post worked side-by-side on a project that took advantage of both news organization’s journalistic and digital strengths.

The group owner says it has the top three stations in primetime viewership of the games in the adults 25-54 demo and its NBC affils also comprise four of the top five and six of the top 10.

What began as a routine way for Denver stations to share the most mundane coverage of everyday press conferences and staged events has turned into a way for victims of last week’s theater shooting, and their families, to do one TV interview rather than dozens.

Gannett’s Denver NBC affiliate claims it had the first reporter on the scene of the middle-of-the-night tragedy and that was just the start of its coverage. Among the big-time news players that relayed information from the station during Friday’s unfolding events were the Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. And there were undoubtedly many others.

TV stations covering the wildfires were all over the airwaves and Internet as the blazes caused mass evacuations, destroyed acres of forest and wiped out 600 homes. For many of the people who covered this story, mustering the ability “to keep going” had an emotional component as well. That is particularly true for the Colorado Springs news crews, some of which lived in the Waldo Canyon fire’s path. Now the Colorado Broadcasters Association has produced PSAs in support of the Red Cross and local firefighters.

With the July 27 start of the London games getting closer, news crews from NBC O&Os and affiliates across the country are hard at work producing stories, profiles and packages to give them a local ratings boost. And some are prepping to make the trip overseas to be on hand for the 17 days, generating more material for themselves and, in some cases, their group-owned siblings.

Due to intense interest in the wake of the ongoing wildfires in northern Colorado, Bannett NBC affiliate KUSA Denver (DMA 17) will be collecting donations both for wildfire victims and […]

After KUSA anchor Kyle Dyer was bitten and seriously injured by a dog during a live broadcast, the station’s news director asked her colleagues at other stations to refrain from showing the most graphic portions of the incident. Most print and electronic journalists have honored the request. However, KDVR was the exception. “The other stations are wimps,” said KDVR News Director Ed Kosowski. “They caved in to pressure from KUSA.”

Denver saw advertising decline during the recession, but it was not hit nearly as hard as other markets, which helped it recover quickly. Now the market is very healthy on both TV and radio heading into what should be an even stronger 2012.