violation of FCC duopoly rules, which forbid one entity to directly own two of the four largest stations in a single media market. In September 2002, SJL sold KSBY to the second incarnation of New Vision Television, a company partially related to the most recent incarnation of that company that sold all of its stations to LIN Media in 2012. Evening Post Industries (through its Cordillera Communications subsidiary) acquired the station in 2004. Recent history In 2006, the station was featured in an episode of The Surreal Life, in which the cast of the reality-based series were hired as anchors and reporters for the station's 6:30 p.m. newscast. Ryan Bennett, a one time KSBY sports anchor from 1999 to 2006, died on May 31, 2006, in Utah in an accident. Cordillera announced on October 29, 2018, it will sell most of its stations, including KSBY, to the E. W. Scripps Company. The sale was completed on May 1, 2019. This made KSBY a sister station to nearby ABC affiliates KERO-TV in Bakersfield and KGTV in San Diego. Central Coast CW (KSBY-DT2) KSBY-DT2 is the CW-affiliated second digital subchannel of KSBY, broadcasting in 720p high definition on channel 6.2. All programming on KSBY-DT2 is received through The CW's programming feed for smaller media markets, The CW Plus, which provides a set schedule of syndicated programming acquired by The CW for broadcast during time periods outside of the network's regular programming hours; however, Scripps handles local advertising and promotional services for the subchannel. KSBY-DT2 carries the entire CW network schedule, although it preempts a half-hour of syndicated programming carried by the CW Plus source feed (usually consisting of off-network sitcoms) each night in order to carry a 10:00 p.m. newscast produced by its parent station. News operation , KSBY airs 36 hours of news each week (with 6 hours each weekday and 90 minutes each on Saturdays and Sundays). Until June 2021, KSBY did not broadcast news during the midday hours but on June 21, 2021, KSBY debuted a new half-hour newscast at 11 a.m. called KSBY News Midday. However, KSBY still does not have weekend morning newscasts. On KSBY-DT2, the station airs a half-hour primetime newscast at 10 p.m. seven days a week. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion KSBY shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, on February 17, 2009, the original target