KDVR anchor Jeremy Hubbard, who is a former anchor of ABC’s “World News Now,” was visiting his former show in New York last night when news of the Colorado shooting broke, TVNewser reports.

“World News Now” was on the air last night when the first reports of the Colorado shooting came in. The program was seen in Denver ABC-affiliated KMGH, which broke away from “World News Now” and went into continuing coverage shortly after 3 a.m. local time.

Video of Hubbard’s “World News Now” appearance is after the jump. Read more

Local stations in Denver remain in breaking news coverage at this hour after a gunman opened fire at a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora, CO left at least 12 dead and 50 injured.

NBC-affiliate KUSA was the first station to go into continuing coverage, around 2:25 a.m. local time. Reporter Brandon Rittiman anchored from the scene of the shooting. Rittiman was joined by morning anchor Kyle Dyer at 2:45 a.m.

KMGH, the ABC-affiliate, ran a breaking news ticker during “World News Now” starting shortly after 2:40 a.m. “World News” reported on the news at 2:50 a.m. KMGH broke in to that program with its own coverage at 3:08 a.m. Mitch Jelniker anchored coverage. Read more

Lisa Barhorst, vice president and general manager of Dayton NBC-affiliate WDTN, has left the station to join a crosstown rival.

Barhorst has been hired at WKEF-WRGT, the ABC-affiliate and Fox-affiliate in Dayton, according to the Dayton Business Journal. She will take over for Dean Ditmer, who left in March to join KUSA in Denver as director of sales. Barhorst begins in her new role on August 6.

Barhorst has worked at WDTN for seven years. Prior to that, she was general sales manager at WWHO, the CW-affiliate in Columbus.

Throughout its morning newscast on Thursday, Denver NBC-affiliate KUSA used a parody logo for the 2012 Olympics that spelled out “SH-T.”

Ever since it was officially unveiled in 2007, the logo for the London Olympics has suffered a barrage of criticism for its odd, jagged design, which has inspired amateur designers to create a bunch of different parody logos. Read more

KTUU morning anchor Todd Walker is leaving Anchorage for a reporter/MMJ job at KUSA in Denver. His first day is set for August 6th.

“I’ve watched KUSA from afar for years, I’m incredibly excited to join the team,” Walker said.

A graduate of the University of Alaska Anchorage, Walker got his start at Anchorage NBC-affiliate KTUU before moving on to KTVA, the market’s CBS-affiliate. Walker returned to KTUU in 2010 and, since then, he has been anchoring the station’s top-rated morning newscast.

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

Kyle Clark, an anchor at Denver NBC-affiliate KUSA, turned the tables on NBC’s David Gregory in an interview this week in Washington, DC (watch above).

Clark interviewed Gregory on the set of “Meet the Press,” the Sunday political affairs show he hosts on NBC. Gregory said Colorado is a vital state to the Presidential election this year. Read more

Six weeks after being bitten by a dog on the air, anchor Kyle Dyer returned to KUSA this morning (video above).

Dyer, who heard from people from around the world during her time away from the Denver NBC-affiliate, said she hopes her experience has helped raise awareness about how to interact with dogs. Read more

Six weeks after being bitten on the face by a dog on the morning newscast, anchor Kyle Dyer is returning to Denver’s KUSA on Monday, the Associated Press reports.

Dyer was injured during an interview with the dog’s owner about the dramatic rescue after the Argentine Mastiff fell through the ice. The Argentine Mastiff, Max, bit the anchor on the lip, resulting in four hours of reconstructive surgery and 70 stitches.

“Woke up at 5am to get ready for an even earlier alarm on Monday,” Dyer wrote on Facebook this morning. “Yes, I’m headed back to work! Happy Weekend!”

After sharing her story in an interview on KUSA last week, Kyle Dyer appeared on NBC’s “Today” this morning.

Dyer spoke in detail with Ann Curry about her physical recovery, saying that she hasn’t considered how the change in her appearance will affect her on-air career.

“I’ve never been freaked out or worried or scared,” Dyer told Curry. “I just knew it was all going to work out” (video above).