KDVR originally signed on the air on August 10, 1983 as Denver's first UHF television station on channel 31 and was owned-and-operated by the Centennial Broadcasting Corporation. KDVR became a Fox affiliate on October 9, 1986.
1988–1992
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1992–1993
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1993–1995
Renaissance sold KDVR to the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of News Corporation on November 15, 1994 in exchange for its O&O KDAF (UHF channel 33) in Dallas–Fort Worth, which was set to lose the affiliation to then-CBS affiliate KDFW (channel 4), as a result of an affiliation deal with New World Communications.
1995–2011
1995–1997
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1997–1999
1999–2008
Fox Television Stations sold KDVR and seven other stations to Local TV (operated by Oak Hill Capital Partners) on December 22, 2007, which the sale was finalized on July 14, 2008.
2008–2011
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2011–present
2011–2017
Designer:
KDVR/KWGN Art Department (Dave Traylor, Eric Candiani, Rodney Pearcey, Nick Carvin, Jeff Cales, Ty Brayton, etc.)
Tribune Broadcasting purchased KDVR outright on July 1, 2013, as part of its $2.75 billion acquisition of Local TV; the sale was finalized on December 27, forming a legal duopoly between KDVR and CW affiliate KWGN-TV (channel 2).
2017–present
Designer:
Tribune Creative West Ty Brayton (2017–2020) Nashville Design Center (Nexstar graphics hub/Linear Drift, 2020–present)
1Owns a 75% stake of the network, the other 12.5% stake is co-owned between Paramount Skydance Corporation and Warner Bros. Discovery. 2Joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery, in which Nexstar owns 31% while Warner Bros. Discovery owns the remaining 69%. 3Nexstar operates these stations owned by Mission Broadcasting. 4Nexstar operates this station owned by Cunningham Broadcasting. 5Nexstar operates this station owned by White Knight Broadcasting through an SSA. 6Nexstar operates this station owned by Vaughan Media. 7Predecessor company of LIN Media. 8Nexstar operates this station owned by Londen Media Group. 9Nexstar operates this station owned by Gray Media through an SSA. 10Nexstar operates this station owned by American Spirit Media through an SSA. 11The station is yet to be sold to a third party as a condition of the Nexstar-Tegna merger. 12Co-owned by Cox Communications.