KCNC-TV, channel 4, is the CBS owned-and-operated television station in Denver, Colorado. Its digital (channel 35) transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain near Golden, Colorado.
The station first went on the air on December 24, 1953 as KOA-TV, co-owned with KOA radio. It immediately took the NBC affiliation away from KBTV (channel 9, now KUSA), due to KOA's NBC radio affiliation. It was owned by Metropolitan Broadcasting, a company partly ow...
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KCNC-TV, channel 4, is the CBS owned-and-operated television station in Denver, Colorado. Its digital (channel 35) transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain near Golden, Colorado.
The station first went on the air on December 24, 1953 as KOA-TV, co-owned with KOA radio. It immediately took the NBC affiliation away from KBTV (channel 9, now KUSA), due to KOA's NBC radio affiliation. It was owned by Metropolitan Broadcasting, a company partly owned by famed comedian Bob Hope.
In 1965, KOA-TV carried most of the 14 NBC AFL Football games with Curt Gowdy doing play-by-play, but the Denver Broncos home games had to be blacked out due to a lack of sell-out games in Denver. In 1967, KOA-TV aired an award winning documentary, The Acid Test, LSD. Five months in the making, with more than 5,000 feet of film shot, LSD was hosted by news editor Bob Palmer. Photographers involved included Bill Baker, Medill Barnes, Jerry Curran, Sam Houston and Barry Trader.
In 1968, KOA-AM-TV was sold to...
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