KDVR

KDVR

Denver, Colorado United States
Channels	Digital: 36 (UHF) Virtual: 31
Branding	Fox31 Denver Fox31 News
Programming
Affiliations	31.1: Fox 31.2: Antenna TV 31.3: TBD
Ownership
Owner	Nexstar Media Group (Tribune Broadcasting Company II LLC)
Sister stations	KWGN-TV
History
First air date	August 10, 1983 (40 years ago) (1983-08-10)
Former call signs	KTMX-TV (1981–1983)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 31 (UHF, 1983–2009) Digital: 32 (UHF, until 2020)
Former affiliations	Independent (1983–1986)
Call sign meaning	Denver
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	126
ERP	1,000 kW
HAAT	316 m (1,037 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	39°43′42.1″N 105°14′15.7″W / 39.728361°N 105.237694°W / 39.728361; -105.237694 (KDVR)
Translator(s)	see § Translators
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	kdvr.com
Satellite station
KFCT
Fort Collins, Colorado
Channels	Digital: 21 (UHF) Virtual: 22
Programming
Affiliations	22.1: Fox 22.2: Antenna TV 22.3: TBD
History
First air date	September 1, 1994 (29 years ago) (1994-09-01)
Former call signs	KWXU (CP, 1992–1993)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 22 (UHF, 1994–2009)
Call sign meaning	"Fort Collins Television"
Technical information[2]
Facility ID	125
ERP	50 kW
HAAT	233 m (764 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	40°38′32″N 104°49′5″W / 40.64222°N 104.81806°W / 40.64222; -104.81806 (KFCT)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS

KDVR (channel 31) is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is simulcast full-time over satellite station KFCT (channel 22) in Fort Collins. Nexstar Media Group owns KDVR and KFCT alongside CW station KWGN-TV (channel 2). Studios and offices are located on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's Speer neighborhood. KDVR's transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain, near Golden, while KFCT's transmitter lies atop Horsetooth Mountain just outside Fort Collins, covering Northern Colorado.

Channel 31 went on the air on August 10, 1983, as the first new commercial TV station in Denver in 30 years and the first full-service station on the ultra high frequency (UHF) band. The original permittee had intended to make channel 31 a Spanish-language station, but when census figures revealed fewer Hispanics lived in Denver than estimated, the group sold the permit. Centennial Broadcasting built the station as Denver's second English-language independent station. KDVR affiliated with Fox at its launch in 1986 and became competitive with longtime independent KWGN-TV. The station was sold twice in the early 1990s, to Chase Broadcasting in 1989 and to Renaissance Broadcasting in 1992. These two groups obtained the permit for and built KFCT in Fort Collins in 1994.

Fox Television Stations, the owned-and-operated stations division of the Fox network, acquired KDVR in 1995 as part of a trade. It moved the station out of cramped facilities and into its present studios in 2000, allowing for the long-awaited debut of a local 9 p.m. newscast. KDVR's news ultimately expanded into mornings and displaced KWGN-TV in the ratings. After Fox spun out KDVR and other stations to Local TV LLC in 2007, Local TV and Tribune formed a local marketing agreement in 2008 that saw the merger of the KDVR and KWGN-TV news operations in the former's facilities; Tribune acquired KDVR outright in 2013. The station was then sold to Nexstar in 2019 as part of its acquisition of Tribune.