KYAV-LD,
VHF
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digital
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channel 12, is a
low-powered television station
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serving the
Palm Springs, California
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area. Owned by
St. Joseph, Missouri
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-based
News-Press & Gazette Company
The News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) is a 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 Bra ...
, it is a
sister station
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to
KESQ,
KPSP-LD
KPSP-CD (channel 38) is a low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power, Class A television service, Class A television station licensed to Cathedral City, California, United States, serving the Coachella Valley as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned ...
,
KDFX-CD
KDFX-CD (channel 33) is a low-powered, Class A television station licensed to both Indio and Palm Springs, California, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Coachella Valley. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company alongs ...
,
KCWQ
KCWQ-LD (channel 2) is a low-power television station licensed to Palm Springs, California, United States, serving the Coachella Valley as an affiliate of The CW Plus. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company alongside ABC affiliate KESQ- ...
and
KUNA-LD
KUNA-LD (channel 15) is a low-power television station licensed to Indio, California, United States, serving the Coachella Valley as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company alongsi ...
.
History
Founded July 25, 1990, KYAV-LD has been previously affiliated with CNC, a Spanish-language news channel based in
Colombia
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, and
Mas Musica
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The channel is targeted toward bilingu ...
, the 24-hour Spanish-language music video channel.
It has been an
Azteca America
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affiliate since May 2003 and was purchased by Desert Television in August 2004, owner of local
CBS
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affiliate
KPSP-CD
KPSP-CD (channel 38) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to Cathedral City, California, United States, serving the Coachella Valley as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company alongside Palm Springs– ...
, although the station operates under the licensee U-Dub Productions LLC based in
Yucca Valley, California
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. The company used to operate another Azteca America station, a low-power feeder for the
Victor Valley, California
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It is located east of the Mojave's Antelope Valley, north of the Cajon Pass and the San Bernardino Valley, n ...
on channel 19.
On October 18, 2009, the then-KYAV-LP went out of business and the signal ceased operations. On February 22, 2012, the station changed its call sign to KYAV-LD. The station became an
AccuWeather
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AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers, then a Pennsylvania State University graduate student working on a master's degree i ...
affiliate, a 24-hour live weather network features weather reports and forecasts.
In January 2012,
News-Press & Gazette Company
The News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) is a 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 Bra ...
acquired the non-license assets of KYAV and KPSP; a year later, it purchased the stations' licenses outright. The deals made KYAV a sister station to
ABC
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affiliate
KESQ-TV
KESQ-TV (channel 42) is a television station licensed to Palm Springs, California, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Coachella Valley. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) alongside five low-power stations: CBS ...
and
Telemundo
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affiliate
KUNA-LP, among other stations.
As of 2019, the AccuWeather affiliation (which has been discontinued from most of its affiliates by this point) has been dropped in favor of a "News" format.
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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:
References
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Television channels and stations established in 1990
Low-power television stations in the United States
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