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First air date | August 10, 1983 |
Former call signs | KTMX-TV (1981–1983) |
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Call sign meaning | Denver |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 126 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 316 m (1,037 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°43′42.1″N 105°14′15.7″W / 39.728361°N 105.237694°W |
| Translator(s) | see § Translators |
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| Website | kdvr |
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| KFCT | |
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First air date | September 1, 1994 |
Former call signs | KWXU (CP, 1992–1993) |
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Call sign meaning | "Fort Collins Television" |
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| Facility ID | 125 |
| ERP | 50 kW |
| HAAT | 233 m (764 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°38′32″N 104°49′5″W / 40.64222°N 104.81806°W |
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KDVR (channel 31) is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is simulcast full-time over satellite station KFCT (channel 22) in Fort Collins. Nexstar Media Group owns KDVR and KFCT alongside CW station KWGN-TV (channel 2). Studios and offices are located on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's Speer neighborhood. KDVR's transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain, near Golden, while KFCT's transmitter lies atop Horsetooth Mountain just outside Fort Collins, covering Northern Colorado.
Channel 31 went on the air on August 10, 1983, as the first new commercial TV station in Denver in 30 years and the first full-service station on the ultra high frequency (UHF) band. The original permittee had intended to make channel 31 a Spanish-language station, but when census figures revealed fewer Hispanics lived in Denver than estimated, the group sold the permit. Centennial Broadcasting built the station as Denver's second English-language independent station. KDVR affiliated with Fox at its launch in 1986 and became competitive with longtime independent KWGN-TV. The station was sold twice in the early 1990s, to Chase Broadcasting in 1989 and to Renaissance Broadcasting in 1992. These two groups obtained the permit for and built KFCT in Fort Collins in 1994.
Fox Television Stations, the owned-and-operated stations division of the Fox network, acquired KDVR in 1995 as part of a trade. It moved the station out of cramped facilities and into its present studios in 2000, allowing for the long-awaited debut of a local 9 p.m. newscast. KDVR's news ultimately expanded into mornings and displaced KWGN-TV in the ratings. After Fox spun out KDVR and other stations to Local TV LLC in 2007, Local TV and Tribune formed a local marketing agreement in 2008 that saw the merger of the KDVR and KWGN-TV news operations in the former's facilities; Tribune acquired KDVR outright in 2013. The station was then sold to Nexstar in 2019 as part of its acquisition of Tribune.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KDVR". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KFCT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.