KDVR-Channel 31 relocated a satellite dish on its building Friday after a developer built a tower crane on land he owns across from the Fox station.
Brent Snyder was able to build the crane on site, rather than shutting down a lane on Fifth Avenue to bring it in. He had applied Thursday for a permit to shut down a lane, but the city’s Public Works Department postponed a decision on the request.
A station spokeswoman said the solution is temporary.
Snyder and the TV station, which is airing the World Series, have been at odds over the installation of the crane. Fox has said the crane would interfere with transmission from its dishes to its towers on Lookout Mountain.
It had threatened Snyder with a temporary restraining order to keep him from putting up the crane and has said it wanted Snyder to cover the cost of relocating its dishes.
The city denied the street-closure permit request, saying it wanted time to facilitate an agreement between the two sides.
“We looked at it again and talked to our crane erector, and figured out we could just put it up on site,” said Snyder, who is building a seven-story apartment building on property across the street from the station at Lincoln Street and East Fifth Avenue. “We had a television over at the trailer the whole time we put the thing up, and there wasn’t any interference.”
Margaret Jackson: 303-954-1473 or mjackson@denverpost.com
