KYUM-LP

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KYUM-LP

Yuma, Arizona
Channels	2 (VHF) analog, 23 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Independent
Owner	Centro Cristiano Vida Abundante, Inc.
Founded	February 15, 1997
Call letters meaning	K YUMa
Former callsigns	K16EI (CP only)
Former affiliations	TBN
Transmitter Power	100 W
Height	55 m

KYUM-LP is a low-power television station in Yuma, Arizona, owned by Centro Cristiano Vida Abundante, Inc. of Santa Maria, California. It is a Spanish-language independent station and broadcasts in analog on VHF channel 2 from a transmitter location near the Yuma Airport.

[edit] History

The FCC issued a construction permit on February 15, 1997 to Yoneide S. Dinzey to build low-power station K16EI, to serve Yuma on UHF channel 16. Dinzey sold the permit to Three Angels Broadcasting Network in February 1999, and 3ABN then sold it to Tiger Eye Broadcasting six weeks later, in April 1999. Tiger Eye Broadcasting changed the station's call letters to KYUM-LP in February 2000, and licensed the station on April 5, 2001 before selling it to Powell Meredith Communications Company a month later. The station was listed as a TBN affiliate at that time.

With station KSWT being assigned channel 16 for their digital television operations, KYUM-LP was forced to move, and filed an application with the FCC in May 2001 to move to VHF channel 2. The application was granted in March 2002, but the station was forced to go silent when KSWT-DT began broadcasting, likely in March or April 2002 after they were granted Special Temporary Authority. Powell Meredith licensed the station on channel 2 in May 2005, but KYUM-LP aired no programming, as the owners were in the process of finding a buyer. They agreed to sell the station to Hispanic Christian Communication Network (HCCN) in June 2005, but the sale was not consummated until May 2006. Shortly afterward, the station began broadcasting independent Spanish-language programming. The same month, HCCN agreed to sell the station to Centro Christiano Vida Abundante, and in late November 2006, the FCC approved the sale.

[edit] Digital television

In September 2006, KYUM-LP was identified as a singleton applicant for a companion digital LPTV station on UHF channel 23 [1]. A singleton applicant is one whose application for a construction permit has no competition from nearby applications on the same or adjacent channels. As a singleton applicant, the station is likely to be granted a construction permit.

[edit] External link

Query the FCC's TV station database for KYUM-LP

Local United States broadcast television in the Imperial Valley market (Nielsen DMA #167)
KYUM-LP 2 (Ind) - KVFA-LP 6 (Ind) - KVYE 7 (UNI) - KECY 9 (Fox/ABC/MyNetworkTV) - KYMA 11 (NBC) - KSWT 13 (CBS/The CW on DT.2) - K19CX 19 (Ind) - K28FM 28 (MTV3) KESE-LP 35 (TEL) - K52EG 52 (3ABN) - KAJB 54 (TFU)
Out-of-market broadcast television available on cable:
KAET 8 (PBS) - KGTV 10 (ABC) - KNXV 15 (ABC) - KPBS 15 (PBS)
Local Mexican broadcast television channels
XHBC 3 (Televisa Mexicali) - XHAQ 5 (TV Azteca 13) - XHBM 14 (Televisa XEW) - XHEXT 20 (TV Azteca 7) - XHMEX 32 (Televisa XHGC) XHMEE 38 (Televisa XEQ) - XHLRT 44 (Televisa XEW) - XHRCS 50 (Telemax) - XHILA 66 (Ind/CNI)
Local cable television channels
KWUB 6 (The CW)¹ ¹(KWUB became an affiliate of The CW and was included on KSWT's digital signal in September 2006)