Article: 30TH ANNIVERSARY JUST ANOTHER DAY FOR KINNEY.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)

Byline: Dusty Saunders Denver Rocky Mountain News Broadcasting Critic

Don Kinney celebrated his 30th anniversary in Denver broadcasting Wednesday without really celebrating.

For Kinney, it was a typical Wednesday, which means he spent most of the day preparing for Friday night's long-running State of Colorado broadcast, the only local TV show of its type in the country.

Long-running? An overused phrase in broadcasting. If a network comedy series has a five-year anniversary, the publicist calls it long-running.

State of Colorado premiered Jan. 5, 1979. Using broadcasting terminology, let's call it a long, long-running public-affairs series.

The series ...

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