KYMA-DT

KYMA-DT
CityYuma, Arizona
Channels
Branding
  • KYMA; News 11
  • CBS 13; 13 On Your Side
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
OperatorNews-Press & Gazette Company
KECY-TV, KESE-LD
History
FoundedJuly 23, 1962 (1962-07-23)[1]
First air date
December 2, 1963
(60 years ago)
 (1963-12-02)[2]
Former call signs
  • KBLU-TV (1963–1978)
  • KYEL-TV (1978–1991)
  • KSWT (1991–2020)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 13 (VHF, 1962–2009)
  • Digital: 16 (UHF, until 2009)
  • CBS (1963–1970)
  • NBC (1970–1991)
  • ABC (1991–1994)
  • Telemundo (secondary, 1990s–2000)
  • Pax (secondary, 2000–2004)
Call sign meaning
Yuma (carried over from the original KYMA-DT)
Technical information[3]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID33639
ERP50 kW
HAAT480 m (1,575 ft)
Transmitter coordinates33°3′18.5″N 114°49′41.6″W / 33.055139°N 114.828222°W / 33.055139; -114.828222
Links
Public license information
Websitekyma.com

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 El Centro–licensed Fox/ABC/CW+ affiliate KECY-TV (channel 9) and Yuma-licensed 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.

  1. ^ "Channel 13 Is Allocated To Yuma TV Firm", Yuma Daily Sun, The, p. 10, July 25, 1962
  2. ^ "KBLU-TV On the Air", Yuma Daily Sun, The, p. 2, December 3, 1963
  3. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KYMA-DT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.