in the Coachella Valley. The switch occurred in September of that year, sending the CBS affiliation to then-ABC affiliate KSWT. Prior to the switch, the majority of the area's cable providers carried XETV (channel 6) from San Diego (which is now an affiliate of Canal 5) on the California side of the market and KNXV-TV (channel 15) from Phoenix (which continued to be carried on cable after it switched to ABC) on the Arizona side; Foxnet was offered in some areas of the market where XETV or KNXV could not be carried. In 1995, KECY picked up a secondary affiliation with UPN and carried the network until 2006. In March 1997, Pacific Media Corporation signed a local marketing/time brokerage agreement (LMA/TBA) with Growth Cities Broadcasting, LLC (a subsidiary of Beverly Hills, California-based Lambert Broadcasting, LLC). This gave Growth Cities programming and operations control of KECY and Palm Springs LPTV stations K40DB, K20CB and K77AV, with an option to purchase the stations. The agreement took effect May 1, 1997, and was to continue until April 30, 2008, or until Growth Cities exercised its purchase option. The following month, Growth Cities transferred the LMA/TBA to News Press & Gazette Co. (NPG), which by this time owned KESQ-TV in Palm Springs, reuniting the two stations under common control. In February 2002, KECY announced that after more than 30 years in El Centro, it would be moving its operations to Yuma, effective April 1. The station's general manager cited interference to its microwave signal from the studio to the broadcast tower on Black Mountain, due to sand in the air from the Glamis dunes, which lie between El Centro and Black Mountain. In September 2006, KECY added a secondary MyNetworkTV affiliation on its main channel from 9 to 11 p.m. after Fox primetime programming on weeknights (as well as from 11:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. on Saturdays until MyNetworkTV dropped its Saturday lineup in September 2009); in March 2012, KECY moved MyNetworkTV programming an hour later in preparation for the launch of its local newscasts. The ABC network returned to the Yuma–El Centro market on January 1, 2007, when KECY launched a full-time affiliate on a new digital subchannel and on Time Warner Cable channel 5, replacing Phoenix affiliate KNXV-TV in Yuma, and San Diego's KGTV (which had been seen on cable channel 10) in California. In November 2007, with time running out on