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For the airport serving Denver, Colorado assigned the ICAO code KDEN, seeDenver International Airport.
KDEN-TV
CityLongmont, Colorado
Channels
Branding
  • Telemundo Denver
  • Noticiero Telemundo Denver(newscasts)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
March 31, 1997(27 years ago)(1997-03-31)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:25 (UHF, 1997–2009)
Independent(1997–2006)
Call signmeaning
Denver (also theIATA airport codefor theDenver International Airport)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID38375
ERP800kW
HAAT379.1 m (1,244 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°5′59″N104°54′4″W/ 40.09972°N 104.90111°W/40.09972; -104.90111
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.telemundodenver

KDEN-TV(channel 25) is atelevision stationlicensed toLongmont, Colorado,United States, serving as theDenverarea outlet for the Spanish-language networkTelemundo.Owned and operatedbyNBCUniversal'sTelemundo Station Group,KDEN-TV maintains studios at the Comcast Media Center on East Dry Creek Road inCentennial,and its transmitter is located in rural southwesternWeld County[2](east ofFrederick).

History

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The station first signed on the air on March 31, 1997. Founded by locally owned Longmont Broadcasting, KDEN originally operated as anindependent station.On January 19, 2006, Longmont Broadcasting sold KDEN to NBC Universal, making the second television station in the Denver market to have been anowned-and-operated stationunder NBC ownership—afterKCNC-TV(channel 4, now aCBSowned-and-operated station), which was owned by the network from 1986 to 1995, the company's 17th Spanish-language television station and the third network O&O in the market overall (alongside KCNC andKDVR(channel 31), whichFoxwould eventually sell in 2008).[3][4]

Channel 25 became the market's Telemundo owned-and-operated station on March 6,[5]Before moving to KDEN, Telemundo programming was seen in Denver on low-power stationsKMAS-LP(channel 63) andKSBS-LP(channel 47),[3]which both served asrepeatersof KMAS-TV (channel 24) inSteamboat Springs;after NBC Universal purchased KDEN, it donated the KMAS-TV license and transmitter facility toRocky Mountain PBS,which changed its call letters toKRMZ,while KSBS-LP was sold to Denver Digital Television (NBC retained KMAS-LP, which moved to channel 33 in 2008, was converted to digital station KMAS-LD in 2012, and remained a repeater of KDEN-TV until its license was cancelled on December 6, 2019).

Newscasts

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KDEN-TV presently broadcasts five hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with one hour each weekday); the station does not broadcast local newscasts on Saturdays or Sundays. Upon affiliating with Telemundo, KDEN aired locally produced news cut-ins during the national evening newscastsNoticiero TelemundoandNoticiero Telemundo Internacional;the inserts were discontinued late that year as a result of budget cutbacks imposed by NBC Universal.[6]

On July 29, 2011, KDEN announced a news share agreement with NBC affiliateKUSA(channel 9) to produce Spanish-language newscasts for the station.[7][8][9]The half-hour newscasts, airing at 5:30 and 10 p.m. weeknights and branded asNoticiero Telemundo Denver/9News en Español,debuted on October 3, 2011, and utilize a separate on-air staff that is exclusive to the KDEN broadcasts; the programs are produced out of a secondary set at KUSA's studio facility on East Speer Boulevard, and have been broadcast inhigh-definitionfrom their launch.[10]

On October 20, 2014, KDEN added a 4:30 p.m. newscast and moved its 5:30 show to 5 p.m. In July 2015, the station began producing its own newscasts from the Comcast Media Center in Centennial, retaining a content partnership with KUSA. As a result, the KDEN news staff grew from four people prior to the move to 18 in 2016.[11]KDEN is one of the 11 Telemundo owned and operated stations that do not produce midday newscasts.

Technical information

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Subchannels

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The station's signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of KDEN-TV[12]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
25.1 1080i 16:9 KDEN-DT Main KDEN-TV programming /Telemundo
25.2 480i 4:3 Exitos TeleXitos
25.3 16:9 COZI Cozi TV
25.4 NBC LX NBC LX Home
25.5 Oxygen Oxygen

Analog-to-digital conversion

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KDEN-TV shut down its analog signal, overUHFchannel 25, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcastsunder federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 29,[13]usingvirtual channel25.

References

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  1. ^"Facility Technical Data for KDEN-TV".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^"ASR Registration 1254146".
  3. ^ab"NBC buys Longmont TV station".Denver Business Journal.January 18, 2011.RetrievedJuly 30,2011.
  4. ^"NBC's buying KDEN Denver for Telemundo".TVNewsCheck.January 19, 2006.RetrievedAugust 11,2014.
  5. ^"KDEN begins Telemundo service in Denver".Broadcast Engineering.March 16, 2006.RetrievedJuly 30,2011.
  6. ^"Habrán menos noticieros de Telemundo".El Diario de Hoy(in Spanish). October 30, 2006.RetrievedJuly 30,2011.
  7. ^"KUSA, Telemundo's KDEN partner for Spanish-language newscasts".Denver Business Journal.July 29, 2011.RetrievedAugust 10,2014.
  8. ^Ostrow, Joanne (July 29, 2011)."9News partners with Telemundo for twice daily newscasts in Spanish".The Denver Post.RetrievedAugust 11,2014.
  9. ^"Telemundo Boosts Local News, Public Affairs".TVNewsCheck.August 8, 2011.RetrievedAugust 20,2014.
  10. ^"KUSA, KDEN partner for Spanish-language newscasts".Denver Business Journal.July 29, 2011.RetrievedJuly 30,2011.
  11. ^Ostrow, Joanne (March 31, 2016)."Telemundo sneaks up on Spanish-language TV rival Univision in Denver".Denver Post.RetrievedJuly 12,2019.
  12. ^RabbitEars TV Query for KDEN
  13. ^"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on August 29, 2013.RetrievedMarch 24,2012.
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