KDEN-TV, digital channel 29 (virtual channel 25), is a Telemundo

Telemundo

Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

 affiliated television station

Television station

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 licensed to Longmont, Colorado

Longmont, Colorado

Longmont is a Home Rule Municipality in Boulder and Weld counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. Longmont is located in Northern Colorado. Longmont is the 13th most populous city in the State of Colorado. The word "Longmont" comes from Longs Peak, a prominent mountain named for explorer Stephen H....

 and is owned and operated

Owned-and-operated station

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 by NBC Universal

NBC Universal

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. The station's studios are located in Denver

Denver, Colorado

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. It is also available on local cable television

Cable television

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 systems, DirecTV

DirecTV

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 and Dish Network

Dish Network

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.

History

KDEN began broadcasting as a independent station on March 31, 1997. NBC purchased KDEN from Longmont Broadcasting in January 2006, making it NBC's second owned-and-operated station in Denver and their seventeenth Spanish-language television station. (The first NBC owned-and-operated Denver station was KCNC-TV

KCNC-TV

KCNC-TV, virtual channel 4, is a CBS owned-and-operated station television station in Denver, Colorado, owned by CBS Television Stations, Inc. KCNC broadcasts on UHF channel 35 from Lookout Mountain near Golden, Colorado.- Digital programming :...

 during the late 1980s and early 1990s.) The station joined Telemundo on March 6. Before moving to KDEN, Telemundo programming was seen in Denver on low-power stations KMAS-LP and KSBS-LP, themselves repeaters of KMAS-TV from Steamboat Springs

Steamboat Springs, Colorado

The city of Steamboat Springs is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Routt County, Colorado, United States. The city is also known as "Steamboat," "The Boat," or "Ski Town USA". As of the 2010 census, the city population was 12,088.The city is an...

; after the purchase of KDEN, KMAS-TV was donated to Rocky Mountain PBS

Rocky Mountain PBS

The Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting Network, known on-air as Rocky Mountain PBS, is the Public Broadcasting Service member non-commercial educational Public television station in Colorado. It reaches one million viewers in Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and New Mexico...

 and became KRMZ, while KSBS-LP was sold to Denver Digital Television (KMAS-LP remains owned by NBC).

Newscasts

Local news cut-ins were offered during Telemundo's national newscasts until budget cuts at NBC Universal led to the segments' discontinuation in late 2006. However, on October 3, 2011, the station will launch weeknight newscasts at 5:30 and 10 p.m., branded as Noticiero Telemundo Denver and produced in association with, and from the studios of, NBC

NBC

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 affiliate KUSA.

Station Branding

• Telemundo 25 - KDEN (2006-2011)
• Telemundo Denver - KDEN (2011-Present)

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