NoCo5 Ft. Collins, Shutting Down Operations

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It is great and sad thing that this has had to happen. I am sad that we are loosing our only local news for Northern Colorado.

From the Coloradoan: http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20...-shutting-down




The city’s only dedicated television station is shutting down at midnight.

A CBS affiliate, Northern Colorado 5 provided news, weather and sports programming, broadcasting from Cheyenne as part of the KGWN family. Station manager Tregg White confirmed the station’s closure to the Coloradoan on Thursday afternoon.

“Despite the efforts of many great people and an investment over the past five years, NoCo5 concluded that it could no longer effectively serve the Northern Colorado area,” White said in a statement.

He added: “We are grateful for the professionalism and dedication that our wonderful staff exhibited here in Northern Colorado. They used their best efforts to cover local news, sports and weather in Northern Colorado as well as serve the local business and civic communities. We regret that all their efforts and all of our investments were simply insufficient to make this hyper-regional station a viable long-term operation. To our loyal viewers and local advertisers we say thank you for your support.”

Fort Collins is part of the Denver-area television market, and NoCo 5 was competing with larger, better-funded news operations with a much broader reach. NoCo5 started broadcasting in Fort Collins on Sept. 15, 2008.

White said station staff has been offered jobs elsewhere in the company.