13 Facts About KWGN

KWGN-TV is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, airing programming from The CW.

KWGN is available to subscribers of satellite provider Dish Network throughout the United States as part of its superstations package, and is carried on cable television providers in parts of the western United States.

The station is authorized for cable and satellite distribution as a U S superstation by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ; however, KWGN is not currently available on any pay television providers in that country.

At the time of its purchase, KWGN became Tribune's fourth television station property—after WGN-TV, WPIX in New York City, and KDAL-TV in Duluth, Minnesota, the latter of which was owned by Tribune from 1960 to 1978.

KWGN promoted itself as Colorado's only all-color station, because all of its local programs were produced in the format.

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KWGN was attractive to cable systems because its programming had no duplication with programs seen on the local network affiliates within their given markets.

KWGN became a charter affiliate of The WB when it launched on January 11,1995; however, its existing lineup was largely unaffected at first, since The WB initially ran programming only on Wednesday evenings, gradually adding additional nights of programming between September 1995 and September 1999; by that time, the network offered prime time programming on Sunday through Friday evenings, along with children's programming on weekdays and Saturday mornings.

On March 30,2009, KWGN changed its on-air branding to "2 the Deuce, " in an attempt to appeal to younger viewers and become more involved in local issues.

In May 2010, KWGN dropped "The Deuce" branding and temporarily began to simply identify by the station's call letters.

On July 22,2011, KWGN debuted a new on-air appearance and branding, as well as reformatting its local news programming to a more traditional format.

At that time, KWGN began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.

KWGN-TV offers four subchannels, which since conversion to ATSC 3.

KWGN shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, on June 12,2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.