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| Branding | KTVD 20 |
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| History | |
First air date | December 1, 1988 |
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Call sign meaning | "Television Denver" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 68581 |
| ERP | 960 kW |
| HAAT | 374 m (1,227 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°43′50.6″N 105°13′55.6″W / 39.730722°N 105.232111°W |
| Translator(s) | see § Translators |
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| Website | www |
KTVD (channel 20) is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside NBC affiliate KUSA (channel 9). The two stations share studios on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's Speer neighborhood; KTVD's transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain (near Golden).
KTVD began broadcasting as Denver's third major independent station on December 1, 1988. Its initial owner, Twenver Inc., sank under the weight of a weak local advertising market and expensive programming purchases and filed for bankruptcy reorganization within two years of launching the station; Twenver's financial issues caused the station's primary programming attraction, Denver Nuggets basketball, to break ties. In 1993, the station was acquired out of bankruptcy by the Chicago-based Newsweb Corporation, which focused the station on entertainment and sports programming with the new UPN network and broadcasts of the Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, and Colorado Rockies.
The station was acquired by Gannett—the predecessor to Tegna—in 2006. KTVD's operations were consolidated with KUSA, and it added morning and evening newscasts to expand that station's market-leading news presence. As a consequence of being bypassed in the merger of UPN and The WB into The CW, the station affiliated with MyNetworkTV. KTVD is the primary preseason broadcaster of Denver Broncos football and airs 20 Nuggets and Avalanche games per year.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KTVD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.