In 1952 Harry Truman was in the last years of his presidency and the hot new thing in Denver was an exotic technology called television. On October 12th 1952 KBTV Channel 9 began broadcasting a mixture of ABC and CBS network programs as well as local news and other programming, the beginning of a legacy that continues well into a new century. When Channel 9 was born, only a few homes had TV sets, but that changed over time until virtually everyone had access to one.