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KWGN-TV
Denver, Colorado
Branding	CW 2 Colorado (general) News 2 (news programming)
Slogan	Colorado's Very Own Colorado Watches 2
Channels	Analog: 2 (VHF) Digital: 34 (UHF)
Affiliations	The CW
Owner	Tribune Company (KWGN Inc.)
Founded	July 18, 1952
Call letters meaning	K World's Greatest Newspaper (named after sister station WGN-TV; refers to the owner of the Chicago Tribune)
Former callsigns	KFEL-TV (1952-1955) KTVR-TV (1955-1963) KCTO-TV (1963-1966)
Former affiliations	DuMont (1952-1956) independent (1956-1995) The WB (1995-2006)
Transmitter Power	100 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital)
Height	339 m (analog) 318 m (digital)
Facility ID	35883
Transmitter Coordinates	39°43′57.9″N, 105°14′9.7″W
Website	cw2.trb.com

KWGN-TV, channel 2, is a television station in Denver, Colorado, owned by the Tribune Company and affiliated with the CW Television Network. Its studios are located in Greenwood Village, just outside of Denver, and its transmitter is located on Lookout Mountain near Golden.

Contents 1 History 2 Personalities 2.1 Current On-Air Staff 2.2 Past Personalities 3 News/Station Presentation 3.1 Newscast Titles 3.2 Station Slogans 4 References 5 External links

The station first went on the air on July 18, 1952 as KFEL-TV. It was also the first commercially licensed television in Colorado. The station was originally owned by Gene O'Fallon. It was a DuMont affiliate, but carried shows from other networks as well. KFEL became an independent station after the DuMont network's collapse. When Gotham Broadcasting bought the station in 1955, the call letters were changed to KTVR-TV. In 1963, the call letters changed to KCTO-TV.

Tribune Broadcasting, then known as WGN Continental Broadcasting, acquired the station in 1966, and changed its call letters to KWGN-TV after its sister station, WGN-TV in Chicago. KWGN was Tribune's fourth television station property after WGN-TV, WPIX in New York, and KDAL-TV (now KDLH) in Duluth, Minnesota, which Tribune sold in 1978.

From 1976 to 1983, KWGN-TV identified on air as Frequency 2 KWGN-TV^{[citation needed]}, which inspired the name of a Peruvian television station. From 1983 to 1995, it called itself "Denver's 2."

As an independent station, KWGN offered a general entertainment format consisting of cartoons, off-network sitcoms, old movies, and dramas. It also aired a 9pm newscast (and still does to this day). In the 1970s, KWGN became a superstation available on many cable systems in the West. It is still available on nearly every cable system in Colorado and Wyoming, as well as several cable systems in Nebraska and Kansas. It is also carried on Dish Network's superstation package, and has substantial over-the-air viewership in Colorado Springs. It was the only independent station in the market until 1983, when KDVR signed on.

KWGN turned down the Fox affiliation in 1986, which instead went to KDVR. KWGN affiliated with WB in early 1995, as did most of Tribune's independent stations. Since the WB only provided a few hours of network programming a day, KWGN's existing lineup was largely unaffected.

Fox approached Tribune in 1996 for an affiliation with KWGN. It planned to sell off KDVR because of KWGN's longer history and its news department (both of which KDVR lacked). That plan did not materialize, and KWGN remained a WB affiliate.

KWGN launched a weekday morning newscast in the late 1990s, titled "WB2day" (later renamed "WB2 Morning News", now known as "News2 This Morning").

On January 24, 2006, the WB and UPN networks announced they would merge. The newly combined network is now called The CW, the letters representing the first initial of its corporate parents CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner. The merger took effect on-the-air on 18 September 2006, and KWGN-TV was announced as the Denver affiliate. Former UPN station KTVD, owned by the Gannett Company, joined My Network TV, when that network began two weeks earlier.

On September 11, 2006, KWGN-TV began airing an 11AM half-hour newscast^[1].

Anchors

• Ernie Bjorkman, weekday evening anchor
• Vida Urbonas, weekday evening anchor
• Mat Garcia, weekend evening anchor
• Laura Main, weekend evening anchor
• Tom Green, weekday morning anchor (5:30 A.M. - 9:00 A.M.)
• Natalie Tysdal, weekday morning and midday anchor (5:30 A.M. - 9:00 A.M.)
• Chris Parente, weekday morning anchor (5:00 A.M. - 5:30 A.M.)

Reporters

• Colin Campbell, general assignment reporter
• Mat Garcia, general assignment reporter/weekend anchor
• Laura Main, general assignment reporter/weekend anchor
• Vinita Nair, general assignment reporter
• Greg Nieto, general assignment reporter
• Chris Parente, general assignment reporter/features reporter/morning anchor
• Eli Stokols, general assignment reporter
• Jann Tracey, general assignment reporter
• Dave Young, general assignment reporter and Unit2 Consumer Reports

Meteorologists

• Dave Fraser, chief meteorologist/weekday evening meteorologist
• Angie Austin, weekday morning meteorologist
• Jason Boyer, weekend meteorologist
• Sunny Roseman, fill-in meteorologist

Sports Anchors/Reporters

• Marc Soicher, weeknight sports anchor
• Lisa Holbrook, weekend sports anchor
• Zubin Mehenti, sports editor/reporter/fill-in anchor

• Beverly Weaver, (1990s)
• Steve Saunders, weekend anchor (1980s-1990s), now at KMGH-TV in Denver
• Joe Brown, Sports Reporter (2001-2004)
• Wendy Brockman, weeknight anchor (1999-2004)
• Casey Curry, weekend weather anchor (2002-2005, now at KTRK-TV in Houston)
• Jaime Marti, weekend anchor (2000-2004)
• Chris Riva, Sports Director (2002-2005, now at KCRA/KQCA in Sacramento)
• Blake Olson, Sports Reporter (2003-2005)
• Asha Blake, weeknight anchor (2004-2007)

• Denver's 2 News (1983-1998)
• WB 2 News (1998-2006)
• News 2 (2006-present)

• Denver's Very Own WB 2 NEWS (1994-1995)
• Colorado's Very Own (1995-present; possibly an adaptation of sister station WGN-TV's slogan, "Chicago's Very Own")
• Colorado Watches 2 (2006-present)

• Official Site
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KWGN

v • d • e Broadcast Television stations in the Denver market (Nielsen DMA #18)
Local television stations KWGN 2 (The CW) - KCNC 4 (CBS) - KRMA 6 (PBS/RMPBS) - KMGH 7 (ABC) - KUSA 9 (NBC) - KBDI 12 (PBS) - KTFD 14 / KDVT-LP 36 (TFU) - KTVD 20 / KUPN 3 (MNTV) - KDEN 25 (TMD) - KZCO-LP 27 / KZCS-LP 23 (AZA) - KLPD-LP 28 (TVA) - KDVR 31 / KFCT 22 (Fox) - KDEV-LP 39 (RTN) - KRMT 41 (DS) - KCEC 50 (UNI) - KWHD 53 (LeSEA) - KPXC 59 (ION) Outlying Areas KTNE 13 / KRNE 12 (PBS/NET) - KRMZ 24 (PBS/RMPBS) - K36DB 36 (RSN) - KCXP-LP 40 (A1) - K45IE 45 (RSN) Local Cable Television Channels Altitude - CET - FSN Rocky Mountain - 24/7 Weather Channel
See also Broadcast television in the Cheyenne market

v • d • e CW Network Affiliates in the state of Colorado
KWGN 2 (Denver) - KKCO-DT 11.2 (Grand Junction / Montrose) - K32CW 32/ K39AF 39 (Grand Junction / Montrose) - KXTU 57 (Colorado Springs)
See also: ABC, CBS, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other Stations in Colorado

v • d • e Superstations in North American markets
United States:	KTLA · KWGN-TV · WAPA-TV · WGN-TV / Superstation WGN · WKAQ-TV · WPIX · WSBK-TV · WPCH-TV / TBS · WWOR-TV / EMI
Mexico:	XEW · XHAW · XHCNL · XHDF · XHGC · XHIMT
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