The Denver Post: Robert Sides grew up watching Colorado news, sports and weather in his Fountain home in much the same way TV viewers have for decades: as a captive audience member who relied on local network affiliates to deliver the stories that mattered to him.

But as a 20-year-old, Sides also knows young people are as just as comfortable, if not more so, getting their news from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and X. So when it comes to the future of 9News-KUSA in Denver, whose parent company, Tegna, is being purchased by Texas-based Nexstar Media Group — owner of Denver’s Fox31 — he’s not concerned.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen to 9News, good or bad, but whoever the owners are or whatever the politics behind these deals, it doesn’t change my values,” said the Colorado State University junior, who reports and anchors news at CTV, a student-run station in Fort Collins that streams live on YouTube. “I’m not afraid of any of it.”

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