Nathan Higgins
Senior Executive Producer
KUSA, 9News
Nathan Higgins is the Senior Executive Producer at 9NEWS in Denver, Colorado. He has produced newscasts and overseen newsroom operations in four markets - Denver, St. Louis, Knoxville, TN, and Columbia, MO. His career started covering state politics for a radio station in Missouri before moving into TV. He has helped create and rebrand newscasts. He has helped lead newsroom coverage on presidential debates, election nights, social justice protests in Denver and Ferguson, MO, mass shootings, floods, and fires. Occasionally he gets to plan and cover fun news too, like championship parades for the Broncos, Nuggets, and Avalanche. Nathan has won four Emmy awards, a regional Edward R. Murrow, and honors from the Colorado, Missouri, Illinois, and Tennessee Broadcasters Associations. He currently serves as Treasurer on the Heartland Emmy Chapter.
KUSA, 9News
KUSA, virtual and VHF digital channel 9, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed in Denver, Colorado. The station is owned by Tegna Inc., as part of an agreement with MyNetworkTV affiliate KTVD (channel 20, which rebroadcasts KUSA's signal on UHF digital channel 19.5 using virtual channel 9.4). The two stations share studios on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's Speer neighborhood. KUSA's transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain, near Golden.
