KMGH-TV

==KLZ-TV==
===1953–1958===
The station first signed on the air on November 1, 1953, as KLZ-TV. It was founded by the Oklahoma City-based Oklahoma Publishing Company (operated by Edward K. Gaylord), which also owned KLZ radio (560 AM and 106.7 FM, now KWBL). KLZ-TV immediately took the CBS affiliation from KBTV (channel 9, now KUSA), owing to KLZ radio's longtime affiliation with the CBS Radio Network. In 1954, Gaylord sold the KLZ television and radio stations to Time-Life.
===1958–1963===
===1963–1972===
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==KMGH-TV==
===1972–1974, 1981-1982===
Time-Life sold the station to McGraw-Hill in late October 1970, in a group deal that also involved the company's other radio and television combinations in Indianapolis, San Diego, Grand Rapids and Bakersfield. In order to comply with the Federal Communications Commission's new restrictions on concentration of media ownership that went into effect shortly afterward, McGraw-Hill was required to sell the KLZ radio stations as well as their sister radio properties in Indianapolis, San Diego, and Grand Rapids to other companies. KLZ-TV, which subsequently changed its call letters to KMGH-TV on June 1, 1972, in order to comply with a now-repealed FCC rule in place then that forbade TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different ownership from sharing the same callsigns.
===1974–1976===
The logo was similar to WNAC-TV (Boston)'s logo from 1981 to 1982, except it is significally thicker and closer, with the second line added with a curve.
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===1976–1980===
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===1982–1983===
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===1983–1991===
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===1991–1995===
====1991–1993====
KMGH 1991.png|Station ID used on news open
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====1993–1995====
This logo depicts the Circle 7 over an abstract mountain range (a reference to the Rocky Mountains).
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===1995–1998===
====1995–1997====
Although KMGH had been one of CBS' stronger affiliates, the station would end up disaffiliating from the network due to a series of events that were set in motion as a result of CBS' partnership with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in July 1994 (and the network's eventual merger with that company in August 1995). In a complex ownership deal that was announced in November 1994, CBS traded WCAU to NBC in exchange for two of that network's O&Os (then longtime affiliates)—Denver's KCNC-TV (channel 4) (which had been an O&O since the station's then-owner General Electric purchased NBC in 1986) and Salt Lake City's KUTV (channel 2) (which the network had acquired less than one month earlier). CBS then formed a joint venture with Westinghouse that assumed ownership of KYW-TV, KCNC and KUTV, with Westinghouse serving as majority owner. Group W/CBS and NBC also swapped the transmitter facilities—and by association, channel frequencies—of their respective stations in Miami, WCIX (now WFOR-TV) and WTVJ.
At the same time, McGraw-Hill had struck an affiliation agreement with ABC, due partly to the fact that its stations in San Diego (KGTV) and Indianapolis (WRTV) had already been aligned with the network (Bakersfield sister station KERO-TV was also involved in the deal between McGraw-Hill and ABC; however, that station had to wait for its affiliation contract with CBS to expire in March 1996, before it could finally switch to ABC). In keeping with all of this, each of the three major broadcast networks relocated their programming to different stations in the Denver market on September 10, 1995; ABC moved its programming to KMGH from KUSA, with KMGH's outgoing CBS affiliation going to KCNC and NBC moving from KCNC to KUSA. 
Channel 7 got a new logo to go with the affiliation change. 
KMGH95 (with ABC logo).svg|Standalone logo
KMGH 1.svg|Alternate standalone logo, without the ABC logo, used for on-air bugs during newscasts
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====1997–1998====
The 1995 logo was modified in 1997, changing it to two shades of gray (a dark shade for the diamond and a lighter shade for the "7"). Along with the change came in a new tagline "Real Life, Real News."
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===1998-present===
====1998–2009====
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kmgh-tv-7-denver-studios.jpg|Logo as seen on its studios in East Speer Boulevard
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====2009–2013====
To match the "Start Here" look, the logo has a glossy texture.
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KMGH ID 2008.png|"Time Well Spent" (2010)
====2013–2015====
====2015–present====
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KMGH Denver7 flat.svg|Flat version
KMGH Denver7 monochrome.svg|Monochrome version
====2021–present====
Denver7 ABC logo 2021.svg|Monochrome version
KMGH-TV news opens
==External links==
*Denver 7
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