Entravision Communications announced that its Univision affiliate in Denver, KCEC-TV, was honored with eight Awards of Excellence and four Certificates of Merit from the Colorado Broadcaster’s Association during a ceremony on March 8, 2014, in the following categories:
Awards of Excellence:
Best Station Promotion/Marketing Campaign
KCEC-TV Colorado Árido Promo; Julio S. Sandoval, Marco Briones
Best Station Promo (Spanish-language)
KCEC-TV Noticias Univision Colorado News Promo; Marco Briones
Best Sales Campaign for an Advertiser
KCEC-TV Porra Mobil, Marco Briones, Jesus Bañuelos
Best Hard News, Spot News Report, within 24 hours
KCEC-TV Incendios; Juan Carlos Gutierrez, Mario Galarza
Best Regularly Scheduled Newscast (Spanish-language)
KCEC-TV; Regularly Scheduled Newscast 5pm
Best Sportscaster
KCEC-TV; Luis Canela
Best Use of New Media
KCEC-TV Breaking News, Delanny Zúñiga, Jacob Paulsen
Best Station Website
KCEC-TV; www.SomosNoticiasColorado.com
Certificates of Merit:
Best Television Commercial for an Advertiser
KCEC-TV Tres Margaritas; Gabriel Muñoz, Marco Briones
Best Feature News Report (Spanish-language)
KCEC-TV; Guadalupe Devotion, Luisa Collins, Marco Briones, Eric Valenzuela
Best Breaking News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure
KCEC-TV INUNDACIONES
Best Weathercaster (Spanish-language)
KCEC-TV; Gaston Heredia
“We are honored by this recognition, and would like to thank the Colorado Broadcaster’s Association for providing our network and staff with these accolades,” said Donald Daboub, SVP Integrated Marketing Solutions for Entravision’s Denver market. “I would also like to congratulate and thank our entire team at KCEC for their hard work and dedication that resulted in these distinctions. Colorado is one of the fastest-growing Latino markets in the United States and we are committed to continuing to provide the highest quality television programming to our diverse and flourishing Latino audience.”
Denver recently became the 15th largest Latino DMA, according to Nielsen’s 2013-2014 Local Television Market Universe Estimates for Latino TV Households. Denver assumed the number 15 position with 246,160 Latino television homes. Additionally, from 2000 to 2013 the Latino population in the Denver DMA increased 90% to more than 781,000 people (NSI UE 2013).
