KECY-TV

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KECY-TV
El Centro, California / Yuma, Arizona
Branding	Fox 9 ABC 5 (on DT2) KESE-LP (on DT3)
Channels	Analog: 9 (VHF) Digital: 48 (UHF)
Affiliations	Fox (primary) MyNetworkTV (secondary) ABC (on DT2) Telemundo (on DT3)
Owner	News-Press & Gazette Company (Pacific Media Corporation)
First air date	December of 1968 [1]
Call letters’ meaning	El Centro / Yuma
Former callsigns	KECC-TV (1968-1981)
Former affiliations	CBS (1968-1995)
Transmitter Power	316 kW (analog) 67 kW (digital)
Height	484 m (analog) 414 m (digital)
Facility ID	51208
Transmitter Coordinates	33°3′19.1″N, 114°49′46.8″W
Website	www.myfoxyumaelcentro.com

KECY-TV, channel 9, is the primary Fox and secondary MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for El Centro, California and Yuma, Arizona. Its transmitter is located between the two cities in the Chocolate Mountains in Imperial County, California. It can be picked up over-the-air in Mexicali, Mexico. The station is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company. KECY has studios on South 4th Avenue in Yuma.

Contents 1 Overview 2 History 3 News/Station Presentation 3.1 Newscast Titles [2] 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Overview

Programming from MyNetworkTV airs weeknights from 9 to 11 and Saturday nights from 11:30 P.M. to 1:30 in the morning.

KECY operates the area's ABC affiliate on its second digital subchannel. It is also offered on Time Warner cable channel 5 with a high definition signal on channel 705. KECY-DT2 airs the entire ABC lineup as well as various syndicated programming. Like the main channel, there is no local news on KECY-DT2.

In addition, Telemundo affiliate KESE-LP can be seen KECY's third digital subchannel. Due to its low powered status, that station does not have a digital signal of its own.

[edit] History

Founded in 1965 as a satellite of KBLU-TV (now KSWT-TV), it later separated in 1968 and remained a CBS affiliate until 1995. The station, along with a low powered translator licensed to Palm Desert known as KDBA-LP, was sold to Pacific Media Corporation and became the first CBS affiliate in the country to switch to the FOX Network. KECY's first studios were located on Main Street in in a former Bank of America building in El Centro. The station moved to Yuma when that area's growth began to accelerate rapidly. In 1997, Pacific Media Corporation, which was principally controlled by Judge Robinson O. Everett of Wilmington, entered into an local management agreement (LMA) with a subsidiary of Lambert Broadcasting. Lambert split the KDBA translator off and relaunched it as Palm Desert's FOX affiliate KDFX-CA. The LMA and options to purchase the two stations were sold a year later to News-Press Gazette Company of St. Joseph. They were already the owners of KESQ-TV in the Palm Springs market.

On January 1, 2007, KECY launched a full-time ABC affiliate in the El Centro - Yuma market on its DT2 digital subchannel and Time Warner cable channel 5. [2] [3] In Yuma, it replaces KNXV from Phoenix which was seen on cable channel 5. In the California portion of the market, it replaced San Diego's KGTV which was seen on cable channel 10. That channel slot now only airs KGTV's local news and syndicated programming. ABC programming is blacked out and replaced with other programming.

As a CBS affiliate, the station had a local newscast titled News 9 which ended sometime in the early-1990s. KECY was briefly available on a satellite, KDBA-LP (now KDFX-CA), in the Palm Springs area in the late-1980s / early-1990s and in Indio from 1992 until 1999. Currently, some over-the-air viewers in the Coachella Valley facing south to the Imperial Valley can receive KECY over the air, but interference may occur from KVCR-TV rebroadcaster K09XW.

KECY began broadcasting in high definition during early-2006, becoming the first station in the Yuma-El Centro market to broadcast in HD. KECY broadcasts FOX primetime and FOX Sports in high-definition.

[edit] News/Station Presentation

[edit] Newscast Titles ^[2]

• The Channel 9 News (1968-1980)
• NewsChannel 9 (1980-1987)
• Channel 9 News (1987-1988)
• News 9 (1988-1992)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for KECY
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KECY-TV
• Program Information for KECY at TitanTV.com
• MyFox9online.com FOX 9's Official Website
• MyFox9online.com FOX 9's About Us Page

v • d • e Local United States broadcast television in the Imperial Valley market  (Nielsen DMA #165) KYUM-LP 2 (Vida) - KVFA-LP 6 (Ind) - KVYE 7 (UNI) - KECY 9 (Fox/MNTV, ABC on DT2, KESE-LP on DT3) - KYMA 11 (NBC, LATV on DT2) - KSWT 13 (CBS, The CW on DT2) - K19CX 19 (PBS) - K28FM 28 (Jams) - KESE-LP 35 (TEL) - K52EG 52 (3ABN) - KAJB 54 (TFU) 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) Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations Reception may vary by geographical location Phoenix: KTVK 3 (Ind) - KAZT 7 (Ind) - KUTP 45 (MNTV) San Diego: KGTV 10 (ABC) - XEWT 12 (Televisa local) - KPBS 15 (PBS) Los Angeles: KCAL 9 (Ind) - KCOP 13 (MNTV) Defunct local cable television channels KWUB 6 (The WB)

v • d • e Fox Network Affiliates in the state of California KTVU 2 (Oakland / San Francisco) - XETV 6 (Tijuana / San Diego) - KECY 9 (El Centro) - KTTV 11 (Los Angeles) - KKFX 24 (Santa Maria) - KMPH 26 / 17 (Visalia / Merced) - KBVU 29 (Eureka) - KCVU 30 (Chico) - KDFX 33 / KESQ-DT 42.2 (Indio / Palm Springs) - KCBA 35 (Salinas) - KTXL 40 (Sacramento) - KBFX 58 (Bakersfield) See also: ABC, CBS, CW, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Independent, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California

v • d • e MyNetworkTV Network Affiliates in the state of California KOTR-LP 2 (Gonzales/Monterey/Salinas) - KEYT-DT 3.2 (Santa Barbara) - KRON 4 (San Francisco) - KECY 9 (El Centro) - KCOP 13 (Los Angeles) - KRVU-LP 21 (Redding/Chico) - KEMY-LP 33 (Eureka) - KUVI 45 (Bakersfield) - XHDTV 49 (Tecate, BCN/ San Diego) - KPSE-LP 50 (Palm Springs) - KAIL 53 (Fresno) - KQCA 58 (Stockton/Sacramento/Modesto) See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Independent, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California

v • d • e ABC Network affiliates in the state of California KEYT 3 / KSSB 17 / K57BC 57 (Santa Barbara / San Luis Obispo) - KABC 7 (Los Angeles) - KGO 7 (San Francisco) - KRCR 7 (Redding) - KECY-DT 9.2 (El Centro) - KGTV 10 (San Diego) - KXTV 10 (Sacramento) - KAEF 23 (Eureka) - KERO 23 (Bakersfield) - KFSN 30 (Fresno) - KESQ 42 (Palm Springs) See also: CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Independent, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California

v • d • e Fox Network Affiliates in the state of Arizona KECY 9 (Yuma) - KSAZ 10 (Phoenix) - KMSB 11 (Tucson) See also: ABC, CBS, CW, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Spanish, and Other English stations in Arizona

v • d • e MyNetworkTV Network Affiliates in the state of Arizona KECY 9 (Yuma) - KTTU 18 (Tucson) - KUTP 45 (Phoenix) See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC, PBS, Spanish, and Other English stations in Arizona

v • d • e ABC network affiliates in the state of Arizona KGUN 9 (Tucson) - KECY 9.2 (Yuma) - KNXV 15 (Phoenix) See also: CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Religious, Spanish, and Other English stations in Arizona