Founded July 25, 1990, KYAV-LD has been previously affiliated with CNC, a Spanish-language news channel based in
Colombia, and
Mas Musica, a 24-hour Spanish-language
music video channel. In January 2003, the station relaunched with
Azteca América programming; that May, Desert Television—owner of
KPSP-CD—acquired the outlet. On October 18, 2009, the then-KYAV-LP went out of business and the signal ceased operations. On February 22, 2012, the station changed its call sign to KYAV-LD. The station became an affiliate of
AccuWeather, a 24-hour weather network that features live reports and forecasts. In January 2012,
News-Press & Gazette Company acquired the non-license assets of KYAV and KPSP; a year later, it purchased the stations' licenses outright. The deals made KYAV a sister station to
ABC affiliate
KESQ-TV and
Telemundo affiliate
KUNA-LP, among other stations. As of 2019, the AccuWeather affiliation (which has been discontinued from most of its affiliates by this point) has been dropped in favor of a "News" format. ==Subchannels==