City El Centro, California Affiliations Univision | Subchannels (see article) | |
Branding Univision El Centro–Yuma (general)
Noticias El Centro (newscasts) Channels Digital: 22 (UHF)
Virtual: 7 (PSIP) Owner Entravision Communications
(Entravision Holdings, LLC) | ||
KVYE, virtual channel 7 (UHF digital channel 22), is a Univision-affiliated television station located in El Centro, California. Owned by Entravision Communications (minority owned by Univision's parent, Univision Communications), the station is operated as part of a virtual duopoly with UniMás affiliate KAJB (which is operated by Entravision under a Joint sales agreement).
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Both stations share studio facilities located at North Imperial Avenue, in El Centro; KVYE maintains transmitter facilities located in the Black Mountain.
History
The Federal Communications Commission granted an original construction permit on August 3, 1989, to build a television station licensed in El Centro. Before its license grant, the permit was extended 4 times and modified 2 times. On March 23, 1994, the Federal Communications Commission cancelled the permit, but restored it five days later.
The station made its debut in June 1996, however the station maintained its construction permit status.
On March 15, 1998, Entravision Communications (which operated KVYE under a local marketing agreement) bought station's licensee La Paz Wireless Corporation for $700.000. Entravision obtained the initial license for the station on November 26, 1999.
On November 8, 2002, the Federal Communications Commission granted a permit to construct the station's digital facilities (requested in 1999). The station completed construction of its full-power digital facilities in June 2007, and was granted a license on January 29, 2010.
In February 2017, KVYE began to carry Azteca América on 7.2; prior to this affiliation, Azteca America was seen in the market solely through carriage of the network's national feed on Time Warner Cable.
Digital channels
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KVYE shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 22. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 7.
News operation
KVYE presently broadcasts 5 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 1 hour on weekdays); KVYE does not carry newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays.
The newscast debuted on January 26, 2015.