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| City | Longmont, Colorado |
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| Channels | |
| Branding | Telemundo Denver |
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| History | |
First air date | March 31, 1997 (28 years ago) (1997-03-31) |
Former channel numbers | Analog: 25 (UHF, 1997–2009) |
| Independent (1997–2006) | |
Call sign meaning | Denver (also theIATA airport code for theDenver International Airport) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 38375 |
| ERP | 800kW |
| HAAT | 379.1 m (1,244 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°5′59″N104°54′4″W / 40.09972°N 104.90111°W /40.09972; -104.90111 |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KDEN-TV (channel 25) is atelevision station licensed toLongmont, Colorado, United States, serving as theDenver area outlet for the Spanish-language networkTelemundo.Owned and operated byNBCUniversal'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).
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 station under NBC ownership—afterKCNC-TV (channel 4, now aCBS owned-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), whichFox would 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 asrepeaters of 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).
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 Telemundo andNoticiero 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-definition from 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.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 25.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KDEN-DT | Telemundo |
| 25.2 | 480i | 4:3 | Exitos | TeleXitos |
| 25.3 | 16:9 | COZI | Cozi TV | |
| 25.4 | CRIMES | NBC True CRMZ | ||
| 25.5 | 4:3 | Oxygen | Oxygen | |
| 25.6 | 16:9 | Nosey | Nosey |
KDEN-TV shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 25, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 29, usingvirtual channel 25.[13]
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