Newscasts
To correspond with the affiliation switch to MyNetworkTV, KUSA began producing a daily half-hour primetime newscast at 9 p.m. for KTVD on September 5, 2006, to compete with newscasts seen in that timeslot on CW affiliate KWGN-TV and Fox affiliate KDVR (KWGN later moved its primetime newscast to 7 p.m. in 2009). Exactly three months later on December 5, 2006, KUSA started to produce a two-hour extension of its weekday morning newscast on the station. In addition, KTVD now airs morning newscasts on weekends. In September 2010, the station began to air the 9News Daily Connection, a midday newscast at 11 a.m. on weekdays that was produced jointly by NBC News and KUSA (KTVD was the only television station not owned-and-operated by NBC to air the Daily Connection program). In July 2011, this broadcast was replaced with a traditional newscast format.
KTVD will sometimes take on the responsibility of airing KUSA's newscasts whenever that station cannot do so because of NBC Sports telecasts that are scheduled to overrun into one of channel 9's regular timeslots for its news programming; in particular, KUSA's 5 p.m. newscast on Sunday evenings may air on KTVD during the NFL season when KUSA airs NBC's Sunday Night Football pregame show Football Night in America.
On February 8, 2012 during KTVD's broadcast of its KUSA-produced morning news program, anchor Kyle Dyer interviewed local firefighters that saved an Argentine Mastiff that fell through the ice the day before while chasing a coyote. Near the end of the segment, Dyer was bitten in the lip by the dog as she bent down to give the dog a kiss; Dyer underwent reconstructive surgery to repair the cuts she sustained from the bite and returned to work at KUSA/KTVD on April 2, 2012.
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