KECY-TV

KECY-TV
Brand	Fox 9 ABC 5 (DT2)
City of License	El Centro, California
Market	El Centro, California/Yuma, Arizona
Channel	9 digital Formerly: 9 analog (1968) 48 digital (2001-09)
Network Affiliation	Current: FOX MyNetworkTV (secondary) ABC (DT2) The CW (DT3) Telemundo (DT4) Historic: CBS (1965-68, 1972-95)) ABC (1968-72) UPN (secondary, 1995-2006)
Founded	1965
Company	News-Press & Gazette
President
Current Popular Non-Network Shows	Two and a Half Men According to Jim Friends Kathy Judge Judy The Ellen DeGeneres Show

KECY-TV is the call sign of the FOX and secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate in El Centro, California/Yuma, Arizona.

KECY-TV first debuted in 1965 as a satellite of KBLU (now KSWT) call letters KECC-TV and as a CBS affiliate. It switched to ABC in 1968 and then back to CBS in 1972. In 1995, KECY-TV took the FOX affiliation away from former FOX affiliate KWBY-TV, as that station is now defunct. KECY-TV's transmitter is located in the Chocolate Mountains in Imperial County, California. KECY-TV operates the area's ABC affiliate on digital subchannel 9.2 and Telemundo affiliate KESE-LP/analog ch. 35 on digital subchannel 9.3. KESE-LP has applied to transmit digital on channel 40. Unlike most FOX & ABC affiliates, KECY-TV and KECY-DT2 did not produce any local news, it did have a newscast from 1968 to 1993, called News 9 as a CBS affiliate. In March 2012, the station restablished its news operation called KECY Fox 9 News, for digital subchannel's ABC affiliate it's KECY ABC 5 News.

San Diego's ABC affiliate KGTV is still available on El Centro cable (Time-Warner), but network programming is replaced with alternate programming so as not to conflict with KECY-DT2.

Digital programming

Virtual	Physical	Name	Programming
9.1	9.1	KECY-DT	Main KECY (Fox/MNTV)
9.2	9.2	KECY-DT2	ABC
9.3	9.3	KECY-DT3	The CW
9.4	9.4	KESE-LP	Telemundo

Past On-Air Personalities

• Diane Guerrazzi
• Carl Bell (now at KNBC, Los Angeles, CA)
• Steve Perez
• Terri Hart

External Links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for KECY-TV