KYMA-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 11, was an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Yuma, Arizona, United States and also serving El Centro, California.
Owned by Atlanta-based Cox Media Group, it was part of a duopoly with CBS affiliate KSWT (channel 13, also licensed to Yuma).
In March 1980, Manning Telecasting, Inc., a company related to Daniel H. Overmyer and owned by his daughter Elizabeth, filed an application for a new television station on channel 11 in Yuma.
[5] The station began broadcasting in January 1988 as an ABC affiliate from studio facilities located on South Pacific Avenue in Yuma.
[12][13] On July 2, 2014, News-Press & Gazette Company, owners of KECY-TV and KESE-LP, announced that it had agreed to form a resource sharing agreement with Blackhawk Broadcasting, giving NPG control of the big four television network affiliates in the Yuma–El Centro market.
Following the planned relocation of KYMA-DT to the studios of KECY-TV, the station retained its current newscast times and separate news branding from KECY and KSWT.
KYMA applied for Special Temporary Authorization (STA) for reduced-power operations in order to get a digital signal on the air quickly.
The STA was granted on June 7, 2002 and the station built temporary digital facilities, to eventually be replaced by full-power operations.