In 2013, Seal Rock changed service providers from KION-TV to Entravision Communications, owner of Univision affiliate KSMS-TV; this deal ended in 2021, and a new agreement was signed with KION.

[8] The sale created immediate questions about the station's future format, and rumors persisted that Ackerley planned on switching to English-language programming; as a result, the League of United Latin American Citizens objected to the transaction.

[12] KCBA joined the Fox network in the fall of 1987 and relocated to quarters on Moffett Avenue in Salinas in 1990, facilities large enough to house a news department.

[15] Operations of channel 46 moved from Monterey to Salinas, and local news on the CBS affiliate was suspended for a month before resuming in early June, with many—though not all—KCCN staffers rehired by Ackerley.

[17] Ackerley merged with Clear Channel Communications in 2002;[18] when Clear Channel spun off its television stations to Newport Television, a broadcasting holding company controlled by the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners, in 2007, the buyers were forced to divest of KION-TV due to overlapping radio interests in San Jose, with the Cowles Publishing Company purchasing that station and assuming the LMA with KCBA.

[19] On June 5, 2013, Entravision Communications—owner of KSMS-TV, UniMás affiliate KDJT-CA, and radio stations KLOK-FM and KSES-FM—announced that it would take over KCBA's operations through a joint sales agreement on or around December 1.

[21] On June 21, 2022, Seal Rock Broadcasters filed to sell KCBA for $1 million to VistaWest of Monterey, a company managed by Lyle Leimkuhler, NPG's president and chief executive officer.

[30] KCBA instead began to simulcast the morning and evening newscasts of KTVU in Oakland; that station had long been available on cable systems in Santa Cruz but was dropped at that time.