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KYMA
KYMA-DT (channels 11 and 13) is a television station licensed to Yuma, Arizona, United States, serving the Yuma, Arizona–El Centro, California market as an affiliate of CBS and NBC. It is owned by Imagicomm Communications, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with News-Press & Gazette Company, owner of Fox/ABC/ CW+ affiliate KECY-TV (channel 9) and low-power Telemundo affiliate KESE-LD (channel 35), for the provision of certain services. The three stations share studios on South 4th Avenue in downtown Yuma, with an advertising sales office on West Main Street in El Centro; KYMA-DT's transmitter is located northwest of Yuma. The current KYMA-DT, which operated as KSWT from 1991 to 2020, is the result of the merger of the program streams on co-owned KSWT and the former KYMA-DT, which was required as a condition of their acquisition by Apollo Global Management in 2019. History KBLU-TV When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lifted the freeze on new te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSWT Office
KYMA-DT (channels 11 and 13) is a television station licensed to Yuma, Arizona, United States, serving the Yuma, Arizona–El Centro, California media market, market as an affiliate of CBS and NBC. It is owned by Imagicomm Communications, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with News-Press & Gazette Company, owner of Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox/American Broadcasting Company, ABC/CW+ affiliate KECY-TV (channel 9) and Low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power Telemundo affiliate KESE-LD (channel 35), for the provision of certain services. The three stations share studios on South 4th Avenue in downtown Yuma, with an advertising sales office on West Main Street in El Centro; KYMA-DT's transmitter is located northwest of Yuma. The current KYMA-DT, which operated as KSWT from 1991 to 2020, is the result of the merger of the program streams on co-owned KSWT and KYMA-DT (1988–2020), the former KYMA-DT, which was required as a condition of their acquisition by Ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSWT CW Logo
KYMA-DT (channels 11 and 13) is a television station licensed to Yuma, Arizona, United States, serving the Yuma, Arizona–El Centro, California market as an affiliate of CBS and NBC. It is owned by Imagicomm Communications, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with News-Press & Gazette Company, owner of Fox/ABC/ CW+ affiliate KECY-TV (channel 9) and low-power Telemundo affiliate KESE-LD (channel 35), for the provision of certain services. The three stations share studios on South 4th Avenue in downtown Yuma, with an advertising sales office on West Main Street in El Centro; KYMA-DT's transmitter is located northwest of Yuma. The current KYMA-DT, which operated as KSWT from 1991 to 2020, is the result of the merger of the program streams on co-owned KSWT and the former KYMA-DT, which was required as a condition of their acquisition by Apollo Global Management in 2019. History KBLU-TV When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lifted the freeze on new te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KYMA-DT (1988–2020)
KYMA-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 11, was an NBC- affiliated television station licensed to Yuma, Arizona, United States and also serving El Centro, California. Owned by Atlanta-based Cox Media Group, it was part of a duopoly with CBS affiliate KSWT (channel 13, also licensed to Yuma). News-Press & Gazette Company operated both stations through a shared services agreement (SSA), making them sisters to El Centro-licensed Fox/ABC/ CW+ affiliate KECY-TV (channel 9) and Yuma-licensed low-power Telemundo affiliate KESE-LP (then-analog channel 35). The stations share studios on South 4th Avenue in downtown Yuma, with an advertising sales office on West Main Street in El Centro; KYMA-DT's transmitter was located northwest of Yuma. History In March 1980, Manning Telecasting, Inc., a company related to Daniel H. Overmyer and owned by his daughter Elizabeth, filed an application for a new television station on channel 11 in Yuma. The channel had been vacant since January 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KECY-TV
KECY-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to El Centro, California, United States, serving the Yuma, Arizona–El Centro, California market as an affiliate of Fox, MyNetworkTV, ABC and The CW Plus. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company alongside low-power Telemundo affiliate KESE-LD (channel 35); NPG also provides certain services to dual CBS/ NBC affiliate KYMA-DT (channel 13) through a shared services agreement (SSA) with Imagicomm Communications. The three stations share studios on South 4th Avenue in downtown Yuma, with an advertising sales office on West Main Street in El Centro; KECY-TV's transmitter is located in the Chocolate Mountains. History On April 18, 1962, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) signed an agreement with Mexico, effective September 4, allowing the allocation of channels 7 and 9 to El Centro and giving the Imperial Valley its first opportunity for local VHF television. Before the channels were added to the Tabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News-Press & Gazette Company
The News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) is an American media company based in St. Joseph, Missouri, wholly owned and operated by the Bradley family. It is presided by Brian Bradley and David R. Bradley, with Hank Bradley (retired), Eric Bradley, and Kit Bradley serving on its board of directors. All are descendants of family patriarch Henry D. Bradley and his son, David Bradley Sr. News-Press & Gazette's properties include daily and weekly newspapers in Missouri and Kansas, radio and television stations in California, Idaho, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, Missouri and Texas. The NPG group generally concentrates on the Kansas City and St. Joseph areas for their newspapers, and the western United States for their broadcasting properties. Many of News-Press & Gazette's television properties are top rated stations in their respective market. History The company traces it roots back to the '' St. Joseph Gazette'' which began publishing in 1845. The paper chronicled much of travel in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imagicomm Communications
INSP (formerly The Inspiration Network) is an American digital cable television network that features primarily westerns (both shows and movies) and is headquartered in Indian Land, South Carolina - a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina. Between 1991 and 2010, INSP was a non-profit ministry focused network. In October 2010, it was re-branded and launched as a socially conservative, commercial-supported family entertainment network (over time becoming centered around westerns), and has Nielsen ratings, Nielsen C3 ratings status. As of 2021, more than 60 million households receive INSP. History INSP was formed in 1978 as the PTL Television Network, a religious television network founded by Christian televangelists Jim Bakker and his wife, Tammy Faye Bakker. The network was the flagship channel for their daily Christianity, Christian variety program, ''The PTL Club''. The network later became known as the PTL Satellite Network and finally PTL – The Inspirational Network. In 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KIVA (TV)
KIVA (channel 11) was a television station in Yuma, Arizona, United States. It was the first local television station in Yuma and, for more than half of its existence, the only local station. It signed on October 8, 1953, and signed off January 31, 1970, being affiliated with NBC throughout its history. For more than half of its existence, it was owned by Bruce Merrill. The station shut down because of economic troubles resulting from the presence of three total stations in the market. Construction and early years The Imperial Valley gained its first television station on March 25, 1953, when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) awarded a permit to Valley Telecasting to construct a television station on VHF channel 11. The original studios and transmitter would be located at Pilot Knob (Imperial County, California), Pilot Knob in California, about west of Yuma. Their old studios are still standing along the Frontage Road southeast of the California Border Protection St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KESE-LP
KESE-LD (channel 35) is a low-power television station licensed to Yuma, Arizona, United States, serving the Yuma, Arizona–El Centro, California market as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company, alongside El Centro–licensed Fox/ABC/ CW+ affiliate KECY-TV (channel 9); NPG also provides certain services to Yuma-licensed dual CBS/NBC affiliate KYMA-DT (channel 13) through a shared services agreement (SSA) with Imagicomm Communications. The three stations share studios on South 4th Avenue in downtown Yuma, with an advertising sales office on West Main Street in El Centro; KESE-LD's transmitter is located southeast of Yuma. History The station signed on in October 1997 as the first full-time Telemundo outlet for the Yuma–El Centro market. Prior to the sign-on of the station, KSWT (now KYMA-DT) had a secondary affiliation with Telemundo, carrying some of the network's programs in the late night hours; the full Tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pappas Telecasting
Pappas Telecasting Companies was a diversely organized broadcasting company headquartered in Visalia, California, United States. Founded in 1971, it was one of the largest privately held broadcasting companies in the country, with its stations reaching over 15% of all U.S. households and over 32% of Hispanic households. Apart from owning and/or operating many television stations, the company formerly had two radio stations in its possession, KTRB (860 AM) and KMPH (840 AM)—changed from KPMP in June 2006 to reflect its nearby sister/flagship television station, Fox affiliate KMPH-TV, both in Fresno, California. Bankruptcy On May 10, 2008, thirteen of Pappas' stations filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection. Pappas cited "the extremely difficult business climate for television stations across the country" in papers filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware. The company reported in court filings that it had more than $536 million in debt and $460 milli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBLU (AM)
KBLU (560 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Yuma, Arizona. It is owned by El Dorado Broadcasters and airs a talk radio format. The studios and offices are on West 28th Street in Yuma. The transmitter is off South 20th Avenue in Yuma, at West Main Canal Road. KBLU is powered at 1,000 watts, non-directional by day and using a directional antenna at night. With its low dial position, KBLU can be heard around much of Southwest Arizona and Southeast California, including the communities of El Centro, Brawley and Blythe. It also covers parts of Baja California and Sonora, Mexico. Programming Weekday mornings begin with a local news and conservative talk show hosted by Russ Clark. The rest of the weekday schedule is made up of syndicated talk shows, including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Dave Ramsey, Clyde Lewis, ''Coast to Coast AM'' with George Noory and ''This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal''. Weekends include shows on money, health, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuma, Arizona
Yuma is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 95,548 at the 2020 census, up from the 2010 census population of 93,064. Yuma is the principal city of the Yuma, Arizona, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Yuma County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the 2020 estimated population of the Yuma MSA is 203,247. According to ''Guinness World Records'', Yuma is the "Sunniest City on Earth," promising "sunshine and warm weather at least 91% of the year." Anywhere from 70,000 to over 85,000 out-of-state visitors make Yuma their winter residence. Yuma's weather also makes it an agricultural powerhouse, growing over 175 types of crops, the largest of which is lettuce. Yuma County provides 90% of all leafy vegetables grown from November to March in the United States. Yuma is also known for its large military population due to several military bases, including the Marine Corps Air Station. Yuma is in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
