History
KDVR first went on the air on March 30, 1983 as the first new commercial station to sign on in Denver in 30 years, and as the first full-service UHF television station in the state of Colorado. TV Guide had listed a channel 31 in its Denver edition earlier in 1983 (as KX2AEG), but this was a translator station rebroadcasting the Spanish International Network (now Univision). The station has never considered KX2AEG as part of its history. It was only in 1990 that Univision finally got a regular Denver affiliate of its own in KCEC.
KDVR began as a typical general-entertainment independent station running a lineup of cartoons, old sitcoms, drama shows, movies, and religious programming. When KWGN-TV declined to affiliate with Fox in 1986, KDVR stepped in, and became known as "Fox 31" in the late 1980s. The station's original local owners sold it to Chase Broadcasting in 1990. Chase merged with Renaissance Broadcasting in 1992. Renaissance then exchanged the station to Fox for that network's KDAF in Dallas-Fort Worth (which was to lose Fox programming to that market's longtime CBS affiliate, KDFW) in 1995, making it a network owned-and-operated station). After becoming a Fox-owned station, KDVR added first-run talk and reality shows, but still aired no news programming.
In October 1994, KDVR opened satellite station KFCT on channel 22, which expanded its coverage area north to the Wyoming border. Before KFCT signed on, channel 22 in Fort Collins was home to an early UHF station, KNCO, that folded because UHF tuners would not be required until 1964, and the area is very mountainous, making UHF reception even more difficult.
In September 2006, KDVR, along with other Fox-owned stations, had their websites migrated to the MyFox web platform created by Fox Interactive Media, featuring expanded multimedia and social networking features.
On December 22, 2007, Fox entered into an agreement to sell KDVR and seven other Fox owned-and-operated stations to Local TV LLC (operated by private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners), adding to the nine stations that the group had acquired in May of that same year from The New York Times Company. The sale was finalized on July 14, 2008. On September 17, 2008, as part of a wider management partnership with Local TV, Tribune Broadcasting announced that the operations of its CW affiliate KWGN-TV would be consolidated with KDVR under a local marketing agreement. Also as part of its partnership with Tribune, KDVR would move from the MyFox web platform to a new website platform managed by Tribune Interactive. All of Local TV's stations, as well as the Tribune-owned stations in Denver and St. Louis that are operated under local marketing agreements with Local TV-owned Fox stations in those two markets, would later switch to WordPress.com hosted websites in 2012.
Dennis Leonard announced he was leaving the Denver stations on February 11, 2010. In March 2010, Peter Maroney has been named the new general manager for KDVR and KWGN-TV.
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