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Denver, Colorado United States |
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| City | Denver, Colorado |
| Branding | CBS 4 (general) CBS 4 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Colorado's CBS 4-Look at it Now (general) Colorado's News Channel (news) On Your Side (investigative reports) |
| Channels |
Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 4 () |
| Translators | (see article) |
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| Owner |
CBS Corporation (CBS Television Stations, Inc.) |
| First air date | December 24, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | K Colorado's News Channel (slogan) |
| Former callsigns | KOA-TV (1953–1983) |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 374 m (1,227 ft) |
| Facility ID | 47903 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°43′50.6″N 105°13′55.6″W / 39.730722°N 105.232111°WCoordinates: 39°43′50.6″N 105°13′55.6″W / 39.730722°N 105.232111°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KCNC-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 35), is a CBS owned-and-operated television station located in Denver, Colorado, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation. KCNC maintains studio facilities located on Lincoln Street (between East 10th and 11th Avenues) in downtown Denver, and its transmitter is based on Lookout Mountain, near Golden.
The station first signed on the air on December 24, 1953 as KOA-TV. Founded by Metropolitan Broadcasting (partly owned by famed comedian Bob Hope), owners of KOA radio (850 AM and 103.5 FM, now KRFX), channel 4 immediately assumed the NBC affiliation from KBTV (channel 9, now KUSA), due to KOA radio's longtime affiliation with and ownership by the NBC Red Network.
In 1965, KOA-TV began carrying most of NBC's American Football League game telecasts as the network obtained the league's broadcast television rights (with play-by-play announcing duties handled by Curt Gowdy); however, Denver Broncos home games aired by the network had to be blacked out due to the team's inability to sell out tickets to the games (NFL blackout rules in effect at the time required teams to sell all tickets for home games in order to allow them to be broadcast in the team's primary market; the league has since lowered the designated sales threshold to allow home game broadcasts to 75% of all tickets). In 1967, KOA-TV ran an award-winning documentary The Acid Test, LSD; hosted by news editor Bob Palmer, the film took five months to produce with more than 5,000 feet of film shot. Photographers involved included Bill Baker, Medill Barnes, Jerry Curran, Sam Houston and Barry Trader.
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