a locally produced telenovela titled Encrucijada: Sin Salud, no hay Nada (translated as Crossroads: Without Health, There is Nothing), in conjunction with the Colorado Health Foundation, that focused on the ongoing obesity crisis in the United States in order to educate Coloradoans on healthier eating habits; a second season of the series was ordered and broadcast in 2011. On December 4, 2017, as part of a channel swap made by Entravision Communications, KCEC and sister station KTFD swapped channel numbers, with KCEC moving from digital channel 26 and virtual channel 50 to digital channel 15 and virtual channel 14. On April 29, 2020, KCEC moved to digital channel 32 as part of the FCC repack. News operation By 1993, KCEC was airing locally produced two-minute newsbriefs three times a day. This grew into a full-length 30-minute early evening newscast on January 30, 1995, with the program originally anchored by news director Rodolfo Cárdenas (who had defected from KUBD (channel 59), the Telemundo affiliate) and Luis Canela. A live 10 p.m. newscast debuted in 2001. In 1997, an anonymous tip faxed to the station led to it breaking news of an impending raid by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, which canceled the sting operation as a result. Yrma Rico, who served as KCEC's general manager, told The Denver Post, "We don't want to lose our viewers." While the station's ratings steadily rose to become competitive with those of the market's English-language stations among adults 18–34 and 18–49 by 2010, Telemundo station KDEN-TV has increased its ratings over the course of the 2010s. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion KCEC shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 50, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51. The station was licensed to move its digital signal to channel 26 on May 20, 2015. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 50. References External links Television channels and stations established in 1990 CEC (TV) CEC (TV) 1990 establishments in Colorado Entravision Communications stations Univision network affiliates Bounce TV affiliates GetTV affiliates Ion Mystery affiliates