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). News-Press & Gazette Company operated both stations through a shared services agreement (SSA), making them sisters to El Centro-licensed Fox/ABC/CW+ affiliate KECY-TV (channel 9) and Yuma-licensed low-power Telemundo affiliate KESE-LP (then-analog channel 35). The stations share studios on South 4th Avenue in downtown Yuma, with an advertising sales office on West Main Street in El Centro; KYMA-DT's transmitter was located northwest of Yuma. History 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. The channel had been vacant since January 1970, when KIVA went out of business. The Federal Communications Commission granted the construction permit on September 29, 1982, but Manning's ability to build the television station had just been hobbled days earlier by a federal bankruptcy court in Ohio that ruled that it had deliberately attempted to defraud First National Bank of Boston. The firm was forced into trusteeship, and Manning Telecasting's stock was reissued to Cadmus, Inc., an affiliate of the bank. Cadmus then sold the permit in 1986 to Yuma Television Associates, a partnership of two attorneys from Tucson and a third from Stuttgart, Arkansas, for $30,000. Yuma Television Associates then sold a stake to Sunbelt Communications Company of Las Vegas, which would buy the remainder within two years of startup; construction activities began, while the call letters KYMA were selected over the original KCAA, which the wife of Sunbelt owner James E. Rogers felt sounded better. The station began broadcasting in January 1988 as an ABC affiliate from studio facilities located on South Pacific Avenue in Yuma. Yuma Broadcasting sold the station to Sunbelt Communications Company in June 1989. On February 1, 1991, it became an NBC affiliate in a swap with then-KYEL, which would become KSWT that September. In May 2013, Intermountain West Communications Company (formerly Sunbelt Communications) reached a deal to sell the station to Blackhawk Broadcasting, a company that shares ownership with the Northwest Broadcasting group. In July, Blackhawk announced that they also in the process of acquiring competing station, KSWT from Pappas Telecasting,