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| call_letters = KMGH-TV
|station_logo=https://ibb.co/mE7jdH| city =Denver
| station_branding = Denver7
| station_slogan = The Denver Channel
| digital = 7 ([[very high frequency|VHF]])
| virtual = 7 ([[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]])
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''.1:''' [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]|'''[[KZCO-LP|.2]]:''' [[Azteca (TV network)|Azteca]]|'''.3:''' [[Laff (TV network)|Laff]]}}
| other_chs = {{small|[[KZCO-LD]] 7 (19 [[ultra high frequency|UHF]]) Denver}}
| owner = [[E. W. Scripps Company]]
| licensee = Scripps Broadcasting Holdings [[Limited liability company|LLC]]
| location = [[Denver|Denver, Colorado]]
| country = [[United States]]
| airdate = {{start date and age|1952|11|1|p=y}}
| enddate =
| callsign_meaning = '''K''' [[S&P Global|'''M'''c'''G'''raw-'''H'''ill]]<br>{{small|(former owner)}}
| sister_stations =
| former_callsigns = KLZ-TV (1952–1972)
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:'''|7 (VHF, 1952–2009)|'''Digital:'''|17 ([[Ultra high frequency|UHF]], 1995–2009)}}
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|'''Analog/DT1:'''|[[NBC]] (1952–1953)|[[CBS]] (1953–1995)|'''DT4:'''|[[TheCoolTV]] (2009–2013)}}
| effective_radiated_power = 54 [[kilowatt|kW]]
| HAAT = {{convert|359|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?list=0&facid=40875 40875]
| coordinates = {{nowrap|{{Coord|39|43|50.6|N|105|13|55.6|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline, title}}}}
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| homepage = {{URL|www.thedenverchannel.com/}}
}}
'''Denver7 - The Denver Channel (KMGH-TV)''', is an [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]-[[network affiliate|affiliated]] [[television station]] [[city of license|licensed]] to [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], [[United States]]. The station is owned by the [[E. W. Scripps Company]], and is a [[sister station]] to [[Azteca (TV network)|Azteca]] affiliate [[KZCO-LD]] (channel 27), whose digital signal also serves as a [[broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators|fill-in translator]] of KMGH. The two stations share studio facilities located on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's Congress Park neighborhood. KMGH maintains transmitter facilities located atop [[Lookout Mountain Park|Lookout Mountain]], near [[Golden, Colorado|Golden]]. On [[cable television|cable]], the station is available on [[Xfinity|Comcast Xfinity]] in [[standard-definition television|standard definition]] on channel 7, and in [[high-definition television|high definition]] on [[digital cable|digital]] channel 652.<ref>http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?method=decideFwdForLineup&zipcode=80203&setMyPreference=false&lineupId=CO05539:X</ref> It is also carried on [[CenturyLink]] Prism channels 7 and 1007.<ref>http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?method=decideFwdForLineup&zipcode=80203&setMyPreference=false&lineupId=CO70266:X</ref>
==History==
===As a CBS affiliate===
The station first signed on the air on November 1, 1952 as '''KLZ-TV'''.<ref>"Eight stations, 5 VHF, 3 UHF, begin commercial operation." ''[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting – Telecasting]]'', November 2, 1952, pg. 64. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/53-OCR/1952-11-02-BC-0064.pdf]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> It was founded by the [[Oklahoma City]]-based [[Oklahoma Publishing Company]] (operated by [[Edward K. Gaylord]]), which also owned KLZ radio ([[KLZ|560 AM]] and 106.7 FM, now [[KWBL]]). KLZ-TV immediately took the [[CBS]] affiliation from KBTV (channel 9, now [[KUSA (TV)|KUSA]]), owing to KLZ radio's longtime affiliation with the [[CBS Radio News|CBS Radio Network]]. In 1954, Gaylord sold the KLZ television and radio stations to [[Time Inc.|Time-Life]].<ref>"Six stations being sold for nearly $15 million." ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', March 8, 1954, pp. 27–28. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/54-OCR/BC-1954-03-08-Page-0027.pdf]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/54-OCR/BC-1954-03-08-Page-0028.pdf]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The station's original studio facilities were housed in a renovated former auto dealership on the east side of the block at East 6th Avenue and Sherman Street.
[[File:KLZ TV local religious program 1968.JPG|thumb|180px|left|The taping of a religious public affairs program at the station in 1968.]]
During the 1950s, channel 7's staff included newscaster (later sports anchor and ''[[Dialing for Dollars]]'' host) Starr Yelland, who came to the station from KOA-TV (channel 4, now [[KCNC-TV]]); weatherman Warren Chandler, and Ed Scott, who hosted a children's program on the station as "Sheriff Scotty".<ref name="Denver TV History">[http://www.broadcastprofessionals.net/denver-television.html The History Of Television In Denver] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227120210/http://www.broadcastprofessionals.net/denver-television.html |date=December 27, 2012 }}</ref> In 1956, KLZ-TV presented the first remote television broadcast from a courtroom after general manager Hugh Terry won a court battle to allow cameras into the courtroom. In 1957, the station's weekly [[public affairs (broadcasting)|public affairs]] series ''Panorama'' (which was written and hosted by Gene Amole), became the first locally produced program in the Denver market to earn a [[Peabody Award]] (channel 7 has since won three more Peabody Awards for the investigative report "Honor and Betrayal: Scandal at the [[United States Air Force Academy|Air Force Academy]]" in 2003, reported by [[John Ferrugia]] and produced by Kurt Silver and current [[news director]] Jeff Harris,<ref>[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/honor-and-betrayal-scandal-at-the-academy 63rd Annual Peabody Awards], May 2004.</ref> 2008's "Failing the Children: Deadly Mistakes", reported by Ferrugia and produced by Tom Burke and Arthur Kane,<ref>[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/failing-the-children-deadly-mistakes 68th Annual Peabody Awards], May 2009.</ref> and 2012's "Investigating the Fire"<ref>[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/investigating-the-fire 72nd Annual Peabody Awards], May 2013.</ref>).
The station was the first in Denver to operate a news bureau in [[Washington, D.C.]], as well as the first Denver station to receive reports from its own radio and television correspondents in Europe and Asia. Channel 7 televised the first kidney transplant in the mid-1960s. Starting in 1968 and running through 1983, KLZ-TV aired one of the most popular children's programs in the Denver market, the ''Noell and Andy Show'', which aired weekday mornings at 8:00 a.m. The program's coloring contest drew hundreds of entries each week.<ref name="Denver TV History"/> Channel 7 moved to its present studio facilities, an eight-sided, five-story building called "The Communications Center," on the intersection of Speer Boulevard and Lincoln Street in 1969.
Time-Life sold the station to [[S&P Global|McGraw-Hill]] in late October 1970, in a group deal that also involved the company's other radio and television combinations in [[Indianapolis]], [[San Diego]] and [[Grand Rapids, Michigan|Grand Rapids]], [[Michigan]]; and [[KERO-TV]] in [[Bakersfield, California|Bakersfield]], [[California]].<ref>"McGraw-Hill buys into TV in a big way." ''Broadcasting'', November 2, 1970, pg. 9. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/70-OCR/1970-11-02-BC-0009.pdf]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In order to comply with the [[Federal Communications Commission]]'s new restrictions on concentration of media ownership that went into effect shortly afterward, McGraw-Hill was required to sell the KLZ radio stations as well as their sister radio properties in Indianapolis, San Diego and Grand Rapids to other companies. Time-Life would later purchase WOTV (now [[WOOD-TV]]) in Grand Rapids in the final deal. By the time the sale was finalized in June 1972, the purchase price for the entire group was just over $57 million. WFBM-TV (now [[WRTV]]) in Indianapolis, KERO-TV in Bakersfield and KOGO-TV (now [[KGTV]]) in San Diego were retained by McGraw-Hill, along with KLZ-TV, which subsequently changed its call letters to '''KMGH-TV'''.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/72-OCR/1972-06-05-BC-0043.pdf "It's all theirs." ''Broadcasting'', June 5, 1972, pg. 43]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The 1990s did not begin well for KMGH; the station saw significant overall financial losses in 1990 and 1991, as well as a decrease in viewership for its local newscasts. A new management team introduced in 1991 turned things around at KMGH; net profit soared 105.5% in 1992 as a result.<ref>"Companies of the Year 1993." ''Colorado Business Magazine'' 20.8 (1993): 26–7.</ref>
===Switch to ABC===
Although KMGH had been one of CBS' stronger affiliates, the station would end up disaffiliating from the network due to a [[Fox affiliate switches of 1994|series of events]] that were set in motion as a result of CBS' partnership with the [[Westinghouse Electric (1886)|Westinghouse Electric Corporation]] in July 1994 (and the network's eventual merger with that company in August 1995).<ref>{{cite news|last=Carter|first=Bill|title=CBS to Add Three Affiliates in Deal With Westinghouse|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/15/business/the-media-business-cbs-to-add-three-affiliates-in-deal-with-westinghouse.html|accessdate=July 12, 2012|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 15, 1994}}</ref><ref name="Westinghouse-CBS">{{cite news|last=Hofmeister|first=Sallie|title=CBS Agrees to Buyout Bid by Westinghouse : Entertainment: $5.4-billion merger would create biggest TV, radio empire. But the deal faces obstacles.|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1995-08-02/news/mn-30646_1_tv-station|accessdate=June 22, 2012|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 2, 1995}}</ref> As part of the deal, the network moved its programming from its [[owned-and-operated station]] in [[Philadelphia]], [[WCAU|WCAU-TV]], to Westinghouse's [[KYW-TV]]. In a three-way trade, CBS traded WCAU to NBC in exchange for two of that network's O&Os (then longtime affiliates)—Denver's KCNC-TV (which had been an O&O since the station's then-owner [[General Electric]] purchased NBC in 1986) and [[Salt Lake City]]'s [[KUTV]] (which the network had acquired less than one month earlier). CBS then formed a joint venture with Westinghouse that assumed ownership of KYW-TV, KCNC and KUTV, with Westinghouse serving as majority owner. Group W/CBS and NBC also swapped the transmitter facilities—and by association, channel frequencies—of their respective stations in Miami, WCIX (now [[WFOR-TV]]) and [[WTVJ]].<ref>[http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1994-11-22/news/9411210600_1_wcix-nbc-programs-stations CBS, NBC Changing Channels], ''[[South Florida Sun-Sentinel]]'', November 22, 1994.</ref>
[[Image:KMGH2.jpg|thumb|right|265px|A shot of the Denver7 (KMGH-TV) studios, taken from East Speer Boulevard.]]
At the same time, McGraw-Hill had struck an affiliation agreement with ABC, due partly to the fact that its stations in [[KGTV|San Diego]] and [[WRTV|Indianapolis]] had already been aligned with the network (Bakersfield sister station KERO-TV was also involved in the deal between McGraw-Hill and ABC; however, that station had to wait for its affiliation contract with CBS to expire in March 1996, before it could finally switch to ABC). In keeping with all of this, each of the [[Big Three television networks|three major broadcast networks]] relocated their programming to different stations in the Denver market on September 10, 1995; ABC moved its programming to KMGH from KUSA, with KMGH's outgoing CBS affiliation going to KCNC and NBC moving from KCNC to KUSA.
On June 14, 2011, McGraw-Hill announced that it would exit from the broadcasting industry and put its entire television station group up for sale;<ref name=dbj-forsale>{{cite news| url=http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2011/06/14/denver-tv-station-kmgh-for-sale.html | first=L. Wayne | last=Hicks | title=Denver TV station KMGH for sale | date=June 14, 2011}}</ref> on October 3 of that year, the company announced that it had entered into an agreement to sell the eight-station broadcasting division to the [[E. W. Scripps Company]].<ref name=tvnc-saletoscripps>{{cite news|title=McGraw-Hill Sells TV Group To Scripps|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/10/03/54440/mcgrawhill-sells-tv-group-to-scripps|accessdate=October 3, 2011|newspaper=TVNewsCheck|date=October 3, 2011}}</ref> The FCC approved the sale on November 29, 2011, and the deal was officially completed on December 30, 2011.<ref name=tvnc-saletoewscomplete>{{cite news|title=Scripps completes McGraw-Hill Stations Buy|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/12/30/56389/scripps-completes-mcgrawhill-stations-buy|accessdate=December 31, 2011|newspaper=TVNewsCheck|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref> The deal marked a re-entry into the Denver market for Scripps; prior to its acquisition of KMGH, the company had owned the ''[[Rocky Mountain News]]'' from 1926 until the afternoon newspaper ceased publishing in 2009.
The station went through a series of brand identities after it's acquisition, becoming known as ABC7, Denver's 7, Channel7 and 7NEWS, before ultimately solidifying itself in 2016 as [http://www.thedenverchannel.com Denver7 - The Denver Channel]. (KMGH-TV).
==Digital television==
===Digital channels===
The station's digital channel is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! [[Display resolution|Video]]
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! [[Program and System Information Protocol#What PSIP does|PSIP Short Name]]
! Programming<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KMGH#station|title=RabbitEars.Info|work=rabbitears.info}}</ref>
|-
| 7.1 || [[720p]] || [[16:9]] || KMGH-DT || Main KMGH-TV programming / ABC
|-
| [[KZCO-LP|7.2]] || rowspan="2" | [[480i]] || rowspan="2" | [[4:3]] || Azteca || Simulcast of KZCO-LP
|-
| 7.3 || Laff || [[Laff (TV network)|Laff]]
|-
|}
KMGH-TV operates on [[digital subchannel]] 7.4 (and is also carried on [[Comcast|Comcast Xfinity]] digital channel 247). The channel rebroadcasts KMGH's local newscasts throughout the day (with the 10:00 p.m. news running until the next morning), alongside weather updates and real-time weather information that is also shown on-screen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCSGrid.do?stnNum=33903&lineupId=CO58527%3aX&zipcode=80010&channel=247&channelCnt=108|title=TV Listings Guide and TV Schedule, , where to watch TV shows - Zap2it.com|work=Zap2it}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newschannels.org/resources/index.cfm?startrow=41|title=Newschannels.org|work=newschannels.org}}</ref>
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KMGH-TV shut down its analog signal, over [[Very high frequency|VHF]] channel 7, on April 16, 2009. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition [[UHF]] channel 17 to VHF channel 7 for post-transition operations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2012-03-24 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archivedate=August 29, 2013 |df= }}</ref>
==Historical Programming==
'''Denver7 - The Denver Channel''' (KMGH-TV) clears the entire ABC network schedule; however, it is one of the few ABC stations that airs the Saturday and Sunday editions of ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]'' a half-hour to one hour earlier than most affiliates due to its hour-long 5:00 p.m. newscast, and also airs the weekend editions of ''[[Good Morning America]]'' and ''[[This Week (ABC TV series)|This Week]]'' one hour earlier (aligning those programs with their recommended airtimes of both programs in the [[Central Time Zone]]). [[Broadcast syndication|Syndicated]] programs broadcast by KMGH-TV include ''[[Right This Minute]]'' and ''[[Inside Edition]]'' among others. Denver7 (KMGH) was Denver's longtime home to hit game shows ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' and ''[[Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' (airing both shows at 6 and 6:30 p.m. respectively prior to their removal), before removing both game shows in September 2014 in a move where [[E.W. Scripps Co.|Scripps]] removed both [[Sony Pictures Television|Sony]] game shows (and a few other shows) from their stations for lower-cost, internally produced programming; with the station adding a 6 p.m. newscast and Scripps' ''The List'' news magazine in their place. Both game shows ended up moving to Denver's [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate, [[KDVR]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/78865/jeopardy-wheel-move-to-kdvr-in-denver|title='Jeopardy,' ‘Wheel' Move To KDVR in Denver|last=report|first=Staff|date=August 29, 2014|work=TVNewsCheck|accessdate=August 30, 2014}}</ref>
In 2012, KMGH acquired the broadcast rights to [[Denver Broncos]] head coach [[John Fox (American football)|John Fox]]'s weekly analysis show, ''The John Fox Show''; the station aired the program until the team's [[2013 Denver Broncos season|2013 season]], losing the rights to KDVR (which renamed the program as ''Fox on Fox'') on August 7, 2014.<ref>{{cite news|title=Broncos coach's show moves to Fox31: "Fox on Fox"|url=http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/2014/08/07/broncos-coach-show-moves-fox31-fox-fox/19639/|first=Joanne|last=Ostrow|newspaper=''The Denver Post''|date=August 7, 2014|accessdate=August 11, 2014}}</ref>
==News Operation==
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'''Denver7 - The Denver Channel''' (KMGH-TV) presently broadcasts 30 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 4½ hours on weekdays, 3½ hours on Saturdays and four hours on Sundays). Unlike most stations affiliated with ABC or its competitors, KMGH did not broadcast a local newscast in the 6:00 p.m. timeslot on weeknights for eight years, opting to fill the hour with episodes of ''Jeopardy!'' and ''Wheel of Fortune'' (the station's previous 6:00 p.m. news program was canceled after the May 26, 2006, broadcast). In addition, the station produces the sports highlight program ''Sports Xtra'', which airs Saturdays during the final 15 minutes of the 10:00 p.m. newscast. As mentioned above, the 6 p.m. newscast was restored on September 8, 2014, due to the move of ''Jeopardy!'' and ''Wheel of Fortune'' to KDVR; it will feature an 'express' format with more stories and weather coverage.
While KLZ-TV always had a strong line-up of local and syndicated programs during the station's early years, it was obviously helped by CBS's longtime dominance nationally. It led the 10:00 p.m. news ratings from the early 1960s until 1977, when it was displaced from the #1 slot by KBTV, which benefited from ABC's ratings increases in primetime as well as an improved news product that took advantage of live [[electronic news-gathering]] technology. KMGH-TV was actually the first television station in the market to use ENG equipment in 1975, with its "Insta Cam", which was never promoted on-air.<ref>"News is People", Craig Allen (2001 Blackwell Publishing). "We waited and waited, but they never promoted it," then KBTV promotions director Harvey Mars told Allen.</ref> In 1970, Channel 7's newscasts had a 40% ratings share, as KOA-TV and KBTV battled to stay out of last place, each pulling in about a 24 share for their newscasts. By the end of the decade, KBTV had a 54% ratings share at 10:00 p.m., more than all of the other stations combined.
The '''Denver7''' 10:00 p.m. news team during the 1960s was helmed by news anchor Carl Akers, weatherman Warren Chandler and sports anchor Starr Yelland. All three did live commercials during the program. John Rayburn joined the station as co-anchor of the 10:00 p.m. newscast in 1964, before departing for KBTV in 1967. In 1966, Akers took a short-lived retirement only to return to Denver television a year later at KBTV as that station's anchor and [[news director]]; he was replaced at channel 7 by KOA-TV anchor Bob Palmer. The team of Palmer, Chandler and Yelland continued until 1975, when Terry Phillips was added as a news co-anchor; Phillips was replaced by John Lindsey in 1976. Palmer returned to KOA-TV in 1982. From December 1994 to August 1997, the station operated a [[Doppler weather radar|weather radar]] system known as "Doppler Max7", that was heavily promoted during the failed tabloid-formatted "Real Life, Real News" era; this period (from 1996 to 1997) emphasized hard news and investigative reports, but was unable to beat KUSA and KCNC, the former of which had overtaken KMGH for first and the latter for second in most timeslots in the ratings by this point.
On July 15, 2002, KMGH-TV became the first major market television station in the world to broadcast fully automated newscasts. A computer system, known as ParkerVision, combines the work of several technical personnel in a program requiring just a single operator. Ten studio cameras, channels of audio, all art graphics and electronic titling along with tape operations are programmed and played back live by one person instead of seven people.<ref>[http://www.broadcastprofessionals.net/denver-television.html A History Of Television In Denver<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227120210/http://www.broadcastprofessionals.net/denver-television.html |date=December 27, 2012 }}</ref> KMGH-TV is the only Denver television station to have won two [[Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award]]s: the first for the 2003 report, "Honor and Betrayal: Scandal at the Air Force Academy" and the second for the 2010 investigative documentary "33 Minutes to 34 Right".
On August 18, 2008, KMGH became the second television station in the Denver market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in [[high-definition television|high definition]]. In 2011, KMGH was named "Station of the Year" by the [[Associated Press]] Television-Radio Association. On May 26, 2011, KMGH moved its hour-long 4:00 p.m. newscast ''7 News Now'' to 3:00 p.m. and reduced the program to a half-hour (''[[The Dr. Oz Show]]'' moved into the newscast's former timeslot);<ref>{{cite news|title=In Denver's Post-Oprah Landscape, KMGH Decides to Launch First-Ever 3 p.m. Newscast|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/in-denvers-post-oprah-landscape-kmgh-decides-to-launch-first-ever-3-p-m-newscast_b10367|first=Andrew|last=Gauthier|date=May 18, 2011|accessdate=August 11, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=As 'Oprah' exits, Denver's Channel 7 eyes viewer boost with 'Dr. Oz'|url=http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_18081645|first=Joanne|last=Ostrow|newspaper=''The Denver Post''|date=May 17, 2011|accessdate=August 11, 2014}}</ref> the program ended after the September 7, 2012, broadcast, in order to accommodate the syndicated talk show ''[[Katie (talk show)|Katie]]''.
On June 28, 2013, KMGH entered into a partnership with ''[[The Denver Post]]'' to collaborate on investigative reports and weather coverage as well as providing additional Spanish-language news content.<ref>{{cite news|title=KMGH Teams Up with the Denver Post|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/kmgh-teams-up-with-the-denver-post_b95876|first=Merrill|last=Knox|work=TVSpy|date=June 28, 2013}}</ref>
On July 14, 2014, KMGH-TV launched a 4:00 p.m newscast, ''The Now'', which features a mixture of local and national news segments.<ref>{{cite news|title=Two Scripps Stations Premiere New Style of News Show|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/two-scripps-stations-premiere-new-style-of-news-show_b124666|first=Kevin|last=Eck|date=July 14, 2014|accessdate=August 10, 2014}}</ref>
===Notable current on-air staff===
*
* [[Anne Trujillo]] – anchor
* [[Tony Kovaleski]] – investigative reporter
* [[Mike Nelson (meteorologist)|Mike Nelson]] - chief meteorologist
* Lionel Bienveneu - sports anchor
===Notable former on-air staff===
* [[Ernie Bjorkman]] – anchor (1982–1984 and 1988–1998; now with KWGN-TV)<ref name="The History Of Television In Denver">{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcastprofessionals.net/denver-television.html|title=The History of Television in Denver|publisher=Broadcast Professionals of Colorado|accessdate=March 9, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227120210/http://www.broadcastprofessionals.net/denver-television.html|archivedate=December 27, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Chris Fowler]] – sports intern (1986; now at [[ESPN]]; lead [[college football]] commentator, former host of ''[[College GameDay (football)|College GameDay]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://espnmediazone.com/us/bios/fowler_chris/|title=Chris Fowler Bio|publisher=[[ESPN]]|accessdate=9 March 2013}}</ref>
* [[Michael Marsh (journalist)|Michael Marsh]] (now anchor at [[WBRZ-TV]] in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/michael-marsh-anchor-5-6-and-10-pm|title=Michael Marsh Bio|date=October 20, 2010|publisher=[[WBRZ-TV]]|accessdate=March 9, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121210084350/http://www.wbrz.com/news/michael-marsh-anchor-5-6-and-10-pm/|archivedate=December 10, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Linda Moulton Howe]] – director of special projects (1978–1983; currently an investigative journalist and documentary producer)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/strange-harvest/oclc/34070843?referer=di&ht=edition|title=A Strange Harvest|publisher=[[WorldCat]]|accessdate=March 9, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Bill O'Reilly (commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] – reporter (former host of ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]'' on [[Fox News Channel]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Kitman|first=Marvin|title=The Man Who Would Not Shut Up: The Rise of Bill O'Reilly|year=2008|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers (United States)|Macmillan]]}}</ref>
* [[Harry Smith (US journalist)|Harry Smith]] – reporter/anchor (1982–1985, now at [[NBC News]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44961306/ns/nbcnightlynews/#.UTu2jKXqkU8|title=Harry Smith Bio|date=October 19, 2011|publisher=[[NBC News]]|accessdate=March 9, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Mark Thompson (TV)|Mark Thompson]] – weather anchor/environmental reporter<ref name="The History Of Television In Denver" />
* [[Tony Zarrella]] – sports director (1996–1998; now sports director at [[WOIO]] in [[Cleveland]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.19actionnews.com/story/5820106/tony-zarrella|title=TONY ZARRELLA|date=December 15, 2006|work=19actionnews.com}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[Circle 7 logo]]
==References==
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==External links==
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{{Infobox broadcast
| call_letters = KMGH-TV
|station_logo=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Denver7_TheDenverChannel.png| city =Denver
| station_branding = Denver7
| station_slogan = The Denver Channel
| digital = 7 ([[very high frequency|VHF]])
| virtual = 7 ([[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]])
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''.1:''' [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]|'''[[KZCO-LP|.2]]:''' [[Azteca (TV network)|Azteca]]|'''.3:''' [[Laff (TV network)|Laff]]}}
| other_chs = {{small|[[KZCO-LD]] 7 (19 [[ultra high frequency|UHF]]) Denver}}
| owner = [[E. W. Scripps Company]]
| licensee = Scripps Broadcasting Holdings [[Limited liability company|LLC]]
| location = [[Denver|Denver, Colorado]]
| country = [[United States]]
| airdate = {{start date and age|1952|11|1|p=y}}
| former_callsigns = KLZ-TV (1952–1972)
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:'''|7 (VHF, 1952–2009)|'''Digital:'''|17 ([[Ultra high frequency|UHF]], 1995–2009)}}
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|'''Analog/DT1:'''|[[NBC]] (1952–1953)|[[CBS]] (1953–1995)|'''DT4:'''|[[TheCoolTV]] (2009–2013)}}
| effective_radiated_power = 54 [[kilowatt|kW]]
| HAAT = {{convert|359|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?list=0&facid=40875 40875]
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| homepage = {{URL|www.thedenverchannel.com/}}
}}
'''Denver7 - The Denver Channel (KMGH-TV)''', is an [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]-[[network affiliate|affiliated]] [[television station]] [[city of license|licensed]] to [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], [[United States]]. The station is owned by the [[E. W. Scripps Company]], and is a [[sister station]] to [[Azteca (TV network)|Azteca]] affiliate [[KZCO-LD]] (channel 27), whose digital signal also serves as a [[broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators|fill-in translator]] of KMGH. The two stations share studio facilities located on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's Congress Park neighborhood. KMGH maintains transmitter facilities located atop [[Lookout Mountain Park|Lookout Mountain]], near [[Golden, Colorado|Golden]]. On [[cable television|cable]], the station is available on [[Xfinity|Comcast Xfinity]] in [[standard-definition television|standard definition]] on channel 7, and in [[high-definition television|high definition]] on [[digital cable|digital]] channel 652.<ref>http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?method=decideFwdForLineup&zipcode=80203&setMyPreference=false&lineupId=CO05539:X</ref> It is also carried on [[CenturyLink]] Prism channels 7 and 1007.<ref>http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?method=decideFwdForLineup&zipcode=80203&setMyPreference=false&lineupId=CO70266:X</ref>
==History==
===As a CBS affiliate===
The station first signed on the air on November 1, 1952 as '''KLZ-TV'''.<ref>"Eight stations, 5 VHF, 3 UHF, begin commercial operation." ''[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting – Telecasting]]'', November 2, 1952, pg. 64. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/53-OCR/1952-11-02-BC-0064.pdf]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> It was founded by the [[Oklahoma City]]-based [[Oklahoma Publishing Company]] (operated by [[Edward K. Gaylord]]), which also owned KLZ radio ([[KLZ|560 AM]] and 106.7 FM, now [[KWBL]]). KLZ-TV immediately took the [[CBS]] affiliation from KBTV (channel 9, now [[KUSA (TV)|KUSA]]), owing to KLZ radio's longtime affiliation with the [[CBS Radio News|CBS Radio Network]]. In 1954, Gaylord sold the KLZ television and radio stations to [[Time Inc.|Time-Life]].<ref>"Six stations being sold for nearly $15 million." ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', March 8, 1954, pp. 27–28. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/54-OCR/BC-1954-03-08-Page-0027.pdf]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/54-OCR/BC-1954-03-08-Page-0028.pdf]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The station's original studio facilities were housed in a renovated former auto dealership on the east side of the block at East 6th Avenue and Sherman Street.
[[File:KLZ TV local religious program 1968.JPG|thumb|180px|left|The taping of a religious public affairs program at the station in 1968.]]
During the 1950s, channel 7's staff included newscaster (later sports anchor and ''[[Dialing for Dollars]]'' host) Starr Yelland, who came to the station from KOA-TV (channel 4, now [[KCNC-TV]]); weatherman Warren Chandler, and Ed Scott, who hosted a children's program on the station as "Sheriff Scotty".<ref name="Denver TV History">[http://www.broadcastprofessionals.net/denver-television.html The History Of Television In Denver] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227120210/http://www.broadcastprofessionals.net/denver-television.html |date=December 27, 2012 }}</ref> In 1956, KLZ-TV presented the first remote television broadcast from a courtroom after general manager Hugh Terry won a court battle to allow cameras into the courtroom. In 1957, the station's weekly [[public affairs (broadcasting)|public affairs]] series ''Panorama'' (which was written and hosted by Gene Amole), became the first locally produced program in the Denver market to earn a [[Peabody Award]] (channel 7 has since won three more Peabody Awards for the investigative report "Honor and Betrayal: Scandal at the [[United States Air Force Academy|Air Force Academy]]" in 2003, reported by [[John Ferrugia]] and produced by Kurt Silver and current [[news director]] Jeff Harris,<ref>[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/honor-and-betrayal-scandal-at-the-academy 63rd Annual Peabody Awards], May 2004.</ref> 2008's "Failing the Children: Deadly Mistakes", reported by Ferrugia and produced by Tom Burke and Arthur Kane,<ref>[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/failing-the-children-deadly-mistakes 68th Annual Peabody Awards], May 2009.</ref> and 2012's "Investigating the Fire"<ref>[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/investigating-the-fire 72nd Annual Peabody Awards], May 2013.</ref>).
The station was the first in Denver to operate a news bureau in [[Washington, D.C.]], as well as the first Denver station to receive reports from its own radio and television correspondents in Europe and Asia. Channel 7 televised the first kidney transplant in the mid-1960s. Starting in 1968 and running through 1983, KLZ-TV aired one of the most popular children's programs in the Denver market, the ''Noell and Andy Show'', which aired weekday mornings at 8:00 a.m. The program's coloring contest drew hundreds of entries each week.<ref name="Denver TV History"/> Channel 7 moved to its present studio facilities, an eight-sided, five-story building called "The Communications Center," on the intersection of Speer Boulevard and Lincoln Street in 1969.
Time-Life sold the station to [[S&P Global|McGraw-Hill]] in late October 1970, in a group deal that also involved the company's other radio and television combinations in [[Indianapolis]], [[San Diego]] and [[Grand Rapids, Michigan|Grand Rapids]], [[Michigan]]; and [[KERO-TV]] in [[Bakersfield, California|Bakersfield]], [[California]].<ref>"McGraw-Hill buys into TV in a big way." ''Broadcasting'', November 2, 1970, pg. 9. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/70-OCR/1970-11-02-BC-0009.pdf]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In order to comply with the [[Federal Communications Commission]]'s new restrictions on concentration of media ownership that went into effect shortly afterward, McGraw-Hill was required to sell the KLZ radio stations as well as their sister radio properties in Indianapolis, San Diego and Grand Rapids to other companies. Time-Life would later purchase WOTV (now [[WOOD-TV]]) in Grand Rapids in the final deal. By the time the sale was finalized in June 1972, the purchase price for the entire group was just over $57 million. WFBM-TV (now [[WRTV]]) in Indianapolis, KERO-TV in Bakersfield and KOGO-TV (now [[KGTV]]) in San Diego were retained by McGraw-Hill, along with KLZ-TV, which subsequently changed its call letters to '''KMGH-TV'''.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/72-OCR/1972-06-05-BC-0043.pdf "It's all theirs." ''Broadcasting'', June 5, 1972, pg. 43]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The 1990s did not begin well for KMGH; the station saw significant overall financial losses in 1990 and 1991, as well as a decrease in viewership for its local newscasts. A new management team introduced in 1991 turned things around at KMGH; net profit soared 105.5% in 1992 as a result.<ref>"Companies of the Year 1993." ''Colorado Business Magazine'' 20.8 (1993): 26–7.</ref>
===Switch to ABC===
Although KMGH had been one of CBS' stronger affiliates, the station would end up disaffiliating from the network due to a [[Fox affiliate switches of 1994|series of events]] that were set in motion as a result of CBS' partnership with the [[Westinghouse Electric (1886)|Westinghouse Electric Corporation]] in July 1994 (and the network's eventual merger with that company in August 1995).<ref>{{cite news|last=Carter|first=Bill|title=CBS to Add Three Affiliates in Deal With Westinghouse|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/15/business/the-media-business-cbs-to-add-three-affiliates-in-deal-with-westinghouse.html|accessdate=July 12, 2012|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 15, 1994}}</ref><ref name="Westinghouse-CBS">{{cite news|last=Hofmeister|first=Sallie|title=CBS Agrees to Buyout Bid by Westinghouse : Entertainment: $5.4-billion merger would create biggest TV, radio empire. But the deal faces obstacles.|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1995-08-02/news/mn-30646_1_tv-station|accessdate=June 22, 2012|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 2, 1995}}</ref> As part of the deal, the network moved its programming from its [[owned-and-operated station]] in [[Philadelphia]], [[WCAU|WCAU-TV]], to Westinghouse's [[KYW-TV]]. In a three-way trade, CBS traded WCAU to NBC in exchange for two of that network's O&Os (then longtime affiliates)—Denver's KCNC-TV (which had been an O&O since the station's then-owner [[General Electric]] purchased NBC in 1986) and [[Salt Lake City]]'s [[KUTV]] (which the network had acquired less than one month earlier). CBS then formed a joint venture with Westinghouse that assumed ownership of KYW-TV, KCNC and KUTV, with Westinghouse serving as majority owner. Group W/CBS and NBC also swapped the transmitter facilities—and by association, channel frequencies—of their respective stations in Miami, WCIX (now [[WFOR-TV]]) and [[WTVJ]].<ref>[http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1994-11-22/news/9411210600_1_wcix-nbc-programs-stations CBS, NBC Changing Channels], ''[[South Florida Sun-Sentinel]]'', November 22, 1994.</ref>
[[Image:KMGH2.jpg|thumb|right|265px|A shot of the Denver7 (KMGH-TV) studios, taken from East Speer Boulevard.]]
At the same time, McGraw-Hill had struck an affiliation agreement with ABC, due partly to the fact that its stations in [[KGTV|San Diego]] and [[WRTV|Indianapolis]] had already been aligned with the network (Bakersfield sister station KERO-TV was also involved in the deal between McGraw-Hill and ABC; however, that station had to wait for its affiliation contract with CBS to expire in March 1996, before it could finally switch to ABC). In keeping with all of this, each of the [[Big Three television networks|three major broadcast networks]] relocated their programming to different stations in the Denver market on September 10, 1995; ABC moved its programming to KMGH from KUSA, with KMGH's outgoing CBS affiliation going to KCNC and NBC moving from KCNC to KUSA.
On June 14, 2011, McGraw-Hill announced that it would exit from the broadcasting industry and put its entire television station group up for sale;<ref name=dbj-forsale>{{cite news| url=http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2011/06/14/denver-tv-station-kmgh-for-sale.html | first=L. Wayne | last=Hicks | title=Denver TV station KMGH for sale | date=June 14, 2011}}</ref> on October 3 of that year, the company announced that it had entered into an agreement to sell the eight-station broadcasting division to the [[E. W. Scripps Company]].<ref name=tvnc-saletoscripps>{{cite news|title=McGraw-Hill Sells TV Group To Scripps|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/10/03/54440/mcgrawhill-sells-tv-group-to-scripps|accessdate=October 3, 2011|newspaper=TVNewsCheck|date=October 3, 2011}}</ref> The FCC approved the sale on November 29, 2011, and the deal was officially completed on December 30, 2011.<ref name=tvnc-saletoewscomplete>{{cite news|title=Scripps completes McGraw-Hill Stations Buy|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/12/30/56389/scripps-completes-mcgrawhill-stations-buy|accessdate=December 31, 2011|newspaper=TVNewsCheck|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref> The deal marked a re-entry into the Denver market for Scripps; prior to its acquisition of KMGH, the company had owned the ''[[Rocky Mountain News]]'' from 1926 until the afternoon newspaper ceased publishing in 2009.
The station went through a series of brand identities after it's acquisition, becoming known as ABC7, Denver's 7, Channel7 and 7NEWS, before ultimately solidifying itself in 2016 as [http://www.thedenverchannel.com Denver7 - The Denver Channel]. (KMGH-TV).
==Digital television==
===Digital channels===
The station's digital channel is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! [[Display resolution|Video]]
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! [[Program and System Information Protocol#What PSIP does|PSIP Short Name]]
! Programming<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KMGH#station|title=RabbitEars.Info|work=rabbitears.info}}</ref>
|-
| 7.1 || [[720p]] || [[16:9]] || KMGH-DT || Main KMGH-TV programming / ABC
|-
| [[KZCO-LP|7.2]] || rowspan="2" | [[480i]] || rowspan="2" | [[4:3]] || Azteca || Simulcast of KZCO-LP
|-
| 7.3 || Laff || [[Laff (TV network)|Laff]]
|-
|}
KMGH-TV operates on [[digital subchannel]] 7.4 (and is also carried on [[Comcast|Comcast Xfinity]] digital channel 247). The channel rebroadcasts KMGH's local newscasts throughout the day (with the 10:00 p.m. news running until the next morning), alongside weather updates and real-time weather information that is also shown on-screen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCSGrid.do?stnNum=33903&lineupId=CO58527%3aX&zipcode=80010&channel=247&channelCnt=108|title=TV Listings Guide and TV Schedule, , where to watch TV shows - Zap2it.com|work=Zap2it}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newschannels.org/resources/index.cfm?startrow=41|title=Newschannels.org|work=newschannels.org}}</ref>
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KMGH-TV shut down its analog signal, over [[Very high frequency|VHF]] channel 7, on April 16, 2009. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition [[UHF]] channel 17 to VHF channel 7 for post-transition operations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2012-03-24 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archivedate=August 29, 2013 |df= }}</ref>
==Historical Programming==
'''Denver7 - The Denver Channel''' (KMGH-TV) clears the entire ABC network schedule; however, it is one of the few ABC stations that airs the Saturday and Sunday editions of ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]'' a half-hour to one hour earlier than most affiliates due to its hour-long 5:00 p.m. newscast, and also airs the weekend editions of ''[[Good Morning America]]'' and ''[[This Week (ABC TV series)|This Week]]'' one hour earlier (aligning those programs with their recommended airtimes of both programs in the [[Central Time Zone]]). [[Broadcast syndication|Syndicated]] programs broadcast by KMGH-TV include ''[[Right This Minute]]'' and ''[[Inside Edition]]'' among others. Denver7 (KMGH) was Denver's longtime home to hit game shows ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' and ''[[Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' (airing both shows at 6 and 6:30 p.m. respectively prior to their removal), before removing both game shows in September 2014 in a move where [[E.W. Scripps Co.|Scripps]] removed both [[Sony Pictures Television|Sony]] game shows (and a few other shows) from their stations for lower-cost, internally produced programming; with the station adding a 6 p.m. newscast and Scripps' ''The List'' news magazine in their place. Both game shows ended up moving to Denver's [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate, [[KDVR]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/78865/jeopardy-wheel-move-to-kdvr-in-denver|title='Jeopardy,' ‘Wheel' Move To KDVR in Denver|last=report|first=Staff|date=August 29, 2014|work=TVNewsCheck|accessdate=August 30, 2014}}</ref>
In 2012, KMGH acquired the broadcast rights to [[Denver Broncos]] head coach [[John Fox (American football)|John Fox]]'s weekly analysis show, ''The John Fox Show''; the station aired the program until the team's [[2013 Denver Broncos season|2013 season]], losing the rights to KDVR (which renamed the program as ''Fox on Fox'') on August 7, 2014.<ref>{{cite news|title=Broncos coach's show moves to Fox31: "Fox on Fox"|url=http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/2014/08/07/broncos-coach-show-moves-fox31-fox-fox/19639/|first=Joanne|last=Ostrow|newspaper=''The Denver Post''|date=August 7, 2014|accessdate=August 11, 2014}}</ref>
==News Operation==
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'''Denver7 - The Denver Channel''' (KMGH-TV) presently broadcasts 30 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 4½ hours on weekdays, 3½ hours on Saturdays and four hours on Sundays). Unlike most stations affiliated with ABC or its competitors, KMGH did not broadcast a local newscast in the 6:00 p.m. timeslot on weeknights for eight years, opting to fill the hour with episodes of ''Jeopardy!'' and ''Wheel of Fortune'' (the station's previous 6:00 p.m. news program was canceled after the May 26, 2006, broadcast). In addition, the station produces the sports highlight program ''Sports Xtra'', which airs Saturdays during the final 15 minutes of the 10:00 p.m. newscast. As mentioned above, the 6 p.m. newscast was restored on September 8, 2014, due to the move of ''Jeopardy!'' and ''Wheel of Fortune'' to KDVR; it will feature an 'express' format with more stories and weather coverage.
While KLZ-TV always had a strong line-up of local and syndicated programs during the station's early years, it was obviously helped by CBS's longtime dominance nationally. It led the 10:00 p.m. news ratings from the early 1960s until 1977, when it was displaced from the #1 slot by KBTV, which benefited from ABC's ratings increases in primetime as well as an improved news product that took advantage of live [[electronic news-gathering]] technology. KMGH-TV was actually the first television station in the market to use ENG equipment in 1975, with its "Insta Cam", which was never promoted on-air.<ref>"News is People", Craig Allen (2001 Blackwell Publishing). "We waited and waited, but they never promoted it," then KBTV promotions director Harvey Mars told Allen.</ref> In 1970, Channel 7's newscasts had a 40% ratings share, as KOA-TV and KBTV battled to stay out of last place, each pulling in about a 24 share for their newscasts. By the end of the decade, KBTV had a 54% ratings share at 10:00 p.m., more than all of the other stations combined.
The '''Denver7''' 10:00 p.m. news team during the 1960s was helmed by news anchor Carl Akers, weatherman Warren Chandler and sports anchor Starr Yelland. All three did live commercials during the program. John Rayburn joined the station as co-anchor of the 10:00 p.m. newscast in 1964, before departing for KBTV in 1967. In 1966, Akers took a short-lived retirement only to return to Denver television a year later at KBTV as that station's anchor and [[news director]]; he was replaced at channel 7 by KOA-TV anchor Bob Palmer. The team of Palmer, Chandler and Yelland continued until 1975, when Terry Phillips was added as a news co-anchor; Phillips was replaced by John Lindsey in 1976. Palmer returned to KOA-TV in 1982. From December 1994 to August 1997, the station operated a [[Doppler weather radar|weather radar]] system known as "Doppler Max7", that was heavily promoted during the failed tabloid-formatted "Real Life, Real News" era; this period (from 1996 to 1997) emphasized hard news and investigative reports, but was unable to beat KUSA and KCNC, the former of which had overtaken KMGH for first and the latter for second in most timeslots in the ratings by this point.
On July 15, 2002, KMGH-TV became the first major market television station in the world to broadcast fully automated newscasts. A computer system, known as ParkerVision, combines the work of several technical personnel in a program requiring just a single operator. Ten studio cameras, channels of audio, all art graphics and electronic titling along with tape operations are programmed and played back live by one person instead of seven people.<ref>[http://www.broadcastprofessionals.net/denver-television.html A History Of Television In Denver<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227120210/http://www.broadcastprofessionals.net/denver-television.html |date=December 27, 2012 }}</ref> KMGH-TV is the only Denver television station to have won two [[Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award]]s: the first for the 2003 report, "Honor and Betrayal: Scandal at the Air Force Academy" and the second for the 2010 investigative documentary "33 Minutes to 34 Right".
On August 18, 2008, KMGH became the second television station in the Denver market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in [[high-definition television|high definition]]. In 2011, KMGH was named "Station of the Year" by the [[Associated Press]] Television-Radio Association. On May 26, 2011, KMGH moved its hour-long 4:00 p.m. newscast ''7 News Now'' to 3:00 p.m. and reduced the program to a half-hour (''[[The Dr. Oz Show]]'' moved into the newscast's former timeslot);<ref>{{cite news|title=In Denver's Post-Oprah Landscape, KMGH Decides to Launch First-Ever 3 p.m. Newscast|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/in-denvers-post-oprah-landscape-kmgh-decides-to-launch-first-ever-3-p-m-newscast_b10367|first=Andrew|last=Gauthier|date=May 18, 2011|accessdate=August 11, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=As 'Oprah' exits, Denver's Channel 7 eyes viewer boost with 'Dr. Oz'|url=http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_18081645|first=Joanne|last=Ostrow|newspaper=''The Denver Post''|date=May 17, 2011|accessdate=August 11, 2014}}</ref> the program ended after the September 7, 2012, broadcast, in order to accommodate the syndicated talk show ''[[Katie (talk show)|Katie]]''.
On June 28, 2013, KMGH entered into a partnership with ''[[The Denver Post]]'' to collaborate on investigative reports and weather coverage as well as providing additional Spanish-language news content.<ref>{{cite news|title=KMGH Teams Up with the Denver Post|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/kmgh-teams-up-with-the-denver-post_b95876|first=Merrill|last=Knox|work=TVSpy|date=June 28, 2013}}</ref>
On July 14, 2014, KMGH-TV launched a 4:00 p.m newscast, ''The Now'', which features a mixture of local and national news segments.<ref>{{cite news|title=Two Scripps Stations Premiere New Style of News Show|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/two-scripps-stations-premiere-new-style-of-news-show_b124666|first=Kevin|last=Eck|date=July 14, 2014|accessdate=August 10, 2014}}</ref>
===Notable current on-air staff===
*
* [[Anne Trujillo]] – anchor
* [[Tony Kovaleski]] – investigative reporter
* [[Mike Nelson (meteorologist)|Mike Nelson]] - chief meteorologist
* Lionel Bienveneu - sports anchor
===Notable former on-air staff===
* [[Ernie Bjorkman]] – anchor (1982–1984 and 1988–1998; now with KWGN-TV)<ref name="The History Of Television In Denver">{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcastprofessionals.net/denver-television.html|title=The History of Television in Denver|publisher=Broadcast Professionals of Colorado|accessdate=March 9, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227120210/http://www.broadcastprofessionals.net/denver-television.html|archivedate=December 27, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Chris Fowler]] – sports intern (1986; now at [[ESPN]]; lead [[college football]] commentator, former host of ''[[College GameDay (football)|College GameDay]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://espnmediazone.com/us/bios/fowler_chris/|title=Chris Fowler Bio|publisher=[[ESPN]]|accessdate=9 March 2013}}</ref>
* [[Michael Marsh (journalist)|Michael Marsh]] (now anchor at [[WBRZ-TV]] in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/michael-marsh-anchor-5-6-and-10-pm|title=Michael Marsh Bio|date=October 20, 2010|publisher=[[WBRZ-TV]]|accessdate=March 9, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121210084350/http://www.wbrz.com/news/michael-marsh-anchor-5-6-and-10-pm/|archivedate=December 10, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Linda Moulton Howe]] – director of special projects (1978–1983; currently an investigative journalist and documentary producer)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/strange-harvest/oclc/34070843?referer=di&ht=edition|title=A Strange Harvest|publisher=[[WorldCat]]|accessdate=March 9, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Bill O'Reilly (commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] – reporter (former host of ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]'' on [[Fox News Channel]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Kitman|first=Marvin|title=The Man Who Would Not Shut Up: The Rise of Bill O'Reilly|year=2008|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers (United States)|Macmillan]]}}</ref>
* [[Harry Smith (US journalist)|Harry Smith]] – reporter/anchor (1982–1985, now at [[NBC News]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44961306/ns/nbcnightlynews/#.UTu2jKXqkU8|title=Harry Smith Bio|date=October 19, 2011|publisher=[[NBC News]]|accessdate=March 9, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Mark Thompson (TV)|Mark Thompson]] – weather anchor/environmental reporter<ref name="The History Of Television In Denver" />
* [[Tony Zarrella]] – sports director (1996–1998; now sports director at [[WOIO]] in [[Cleveland]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.19actionnews.com/story/5820106/tony-zarrella|title=TONY ZARRELLA|date=December 15, 2006|work=19actionnews.com}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[Circle 7 logo]]
==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:Television stations in Denver]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1953]]
[[Category:E.W. Scripps television stations]]
[[Category:Ryman Hospitality Properties]]
[[Category:Peabody Award winners]]' |