KCNC-TV

Not to be confused with WCNC-TV.

This page only shows primary logo variants. For other related logos and images, see: News Other

Contents
1953–1965	1965–1968	1968–1970	1970–1976	1976–1977	1977–1979	1979–1981
1981–1983	1983–1993	1993-1995	1995–1997	1997–2003	2003–present

KOA-TV

1953–1965

KCNC-TV originally signed on the air on December 24, 1953, as KOA-TV, a primary NBC affiliate on VHF channel 4.

1965–1968

1968–1970

1970–1976

1976–1977

This logo is similar to WTMJ-TV's bicentennial logo.

1977–1979

1979–1981

1981–1983

KCNC-TV

1983–1993

On August 12, 1983, General Electric sold KOA-AM to Belo, but kept channel 4 and changed its callsign to the current KCNC-TV because of FCC restrictions on different ownership of stations with the same call letters. GE would later acquire NBC's parent RCA in 1986, thus becoming the first owned-and-operated station of a major network in the state of Colorado. The newly-rechristened KCNC-TV continued to use its 1981 circle 4 logo shown above.

1993–2003

1993-1995

Designer:  NBC

Typography:  Helvetica Compressed Univers

Launched:  Unknown

This "4" has also been used on NBC's other O&O stations on channel 4 since 1992.

1995–1997

Designer:  CBS

Typography:  Helvetica Compressed Didot Times New Roman (Alternate)

Launched:  September 10, 1995

On July 12, 1994, when CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting agreed to a long-term affiliation deal that would result in three of its stations switch to the network; they initially intended on selling WCAU, but later discovered they would have to pay taxes on the profit of the transaction. To solve this problem, in November 1994, NBC decided to swap ownership of KCNC-TV and KUTV in Salt Lake City (which NBC had acquired the month before), along with the VHF channel 4 allocation and transmitter in Miami, to CBS in exchange for WCAU and the VHF channel 6 allocation and transmitter in Miami, which for legal purposes made the deal an even trade. The affiliation switch took place on September 10, 1995, sending the ABC affiliation to KMGH-TV and the NBC affiliation to KUSA.

1997–2003

Not long after then, in 1997, KCNC was rebranded as simply News 4, with the color scheme changed.

2003–present

The eyemark was reintroduced in 2003 and the NBC-era "4" was phased out by this time and replaced with bronze "4", the logo is based on the current one from sister station KCBS-TV in Los Angeles.

External links

• CBS Denver