Two news managers at Denver’s KDVR-KWGN have landed assistant news director jobs in other markets.

Ryan Minnaugh, who most recently served as executive producer of KDVR-KWGN’s evening newscasts, is joining WXIN in Indianapolis.  And Marc Sternfield, KDVR-KWGN’s executive producer for digital media, has been named assistant ND at KSTU in Salt Lake City.

Both moves represent promotions within the Local TV-Tribune family. Read more

In the wake of Bruce Lindsay‘s retirement from KSL, the station has announced there will be three anchors on the evening newscasts, beginning tonight.

The Salt Lake City NBC-affiliate announced in March that Dave McCann (right) would replace Lindsay, who has anchored the evening newscasts for 34 years. This weekend, it was announced that Mike Headrick (left), who joins KSL from KDVR in Denver, will be the third anchor for the program.

“It’s surprising how adding a third person can change the whole dynamic of a show,” Tanya Vea, KSL’s executive vice president of news, said in a statement. “This will allow us to better highlight our communities in new, exciting ways.” Read more

While President Obama was preparing to sit for an exclusive interview with ABC News, in which he would express his support for same-sex marriage, Mitt Romney was in Colorado, talking to local reporters.

Just hours before news broke of Obama’s gay marriage pronouncement, Romney affirmed his opposition to same-sex unions in interviews with reporters from a handful of Denver stations.

On Tuesday night, Republicans in the Colorado state house of representatives blocked a bill that would have allowed same-sex civil unions, so on Wednesday reporters from KDVR, KUSA, and KCNC asked Romney to discuss his stance on the issue. Read more

Mike Headrick is joining KSL in Salt Lake City from KDVR in Denver.

Headrick will make the move from KDVR immediately after the May sweeps period concludes, he tells TVSpy. He will anchor the 5 p.m. newscast and be an investigative reporter for KSL. He takes over for Bruce Lindsay, who is set to retire this summer after 34 years with the station.

Headrick is the morning anchor at KDVR. He will be replaced by Nick Emmons.

Nick Emmons is joining KDVR, the Fox-affiliate in Denver, as morning anchor.

Emmons joins the station from KION in Salinas, where he was also a morning anchor. He replaces Mike Headrick, who is leaving for Salt Lake City, according to the Denver Post. Headrick joined KDVR from KUTV in Salt Lake City in 2009.

The Denver Post also reports KDVR has hired sportscaster Kami Carmann from rival KMGH, the ABC-affiliate in Denver.

A key aspect of the Denver Broncos’ courtship of Peyton Manning was the ability to keep the media at a distance while he met with team officials.

Sports Illustrated‘s Peter King reports that part of the Broncos’ strategy for avoiding media attention during Manning’s free agent visit to Denver last month was deploying a fleet of decoy vehicles when the star quarterback was on the move: Read more

A confrontation between Occupy Denver protesters and a reporter turned nasty recently after the protesters walked into a KDVR live shot holding an obscene sign. After he was clear, the reporter, Eli Stokols, confronted the protesters: “When I’m live on f-cking television — and you can film this — when I’m live on television, you don’t come up and f-ck us up,” he said (video above).

Stokols spoke about the incident today with Westword, which first published the video:

When this first started, when the first showdowns were imminent, we were down there all the time, and this is not uncommon. I’ve done live shots with signs behind me saying “Fox News is the devil,” and that’s not a problem. I don’t even tell them to get out of the way, because they’re the reason why we’re there and they can say what they want. But saying something like “f-ck the police” on a live broadcast is different.  Read more

Shortly after a dog bit KUSA anchor Kyle Dyer on-air last week, the station’s news director, Patti Dennis, called up every news director in Denver and implored them not to air footage of the bite.

Dennis told TVSpy last week that she urged her fellow news directors to “show respect” because the video was “traumatic to people at KUSA.”

Despite Dennis’s pleading, one news director, KDVR‘s Ed Kosowski, decided to go ahead and air the footage. Read more

The owner of the dog who bit KUSA anchor Kyle Dyer last week recently sat down for an exclusive interview with rival station KDVR and complained that the high-profile nature of the incident is keeping his dog detained at the Denver Animal Shelter longer than he should be.

Max, the 85-pound Argentine Mastiff who bit Dyer during KUSA’s morning show last Wednesday, is currently under a 10-day quarantine at the shelter.

“I feel personally because it is a high profile case that…wheels are turning in the background that we don’t see,” Max’s owner, Michael Robinson, told KDVR reporter Justin Joseph. Read more

Calling it “traumatic to people at KUSA,” news director Patti Dennis has done her best to ensure that viewers don’t see the video of KUSA anchor Kyle Dyer being bitten by a dog during the station’s morning show Wednesday.

Dennis told TVSpy this week that, following the on-air incident, she contacted the news directors of every station in Denver, imploring them not to air footage of the bite.

While it appears most stations respected Dennis’s request, at least one, Fox-affiliate KDVR, aired footage of the bite.

In addition to trying to keep the video off the air, Dennis attempted to keep the video off the internet this week. Read more