Spring Trip 2009: Yuma, Arizona

Part of the Spring Trip 2009 series.

It was about 11 AM when we finally got out of El Centro on Saturday morning, and after an airchecking break at the I-8 rest area 30 miles east of El Centro, we rolled into Yuma, Arizona, a small city (190,000 in the metropolitan area) on the east bank of the Colorado River just north of the Mexican border. The radio market situation is a bit more balanced between Yuma and its Mexican sister, San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora; while San Luis has more AMs (six to Yuma's three), Yuma has more FMs (seven to San Luis's four). The transmitter sites in Yuma are not particularly clustered, so it took a bit more time than we had hoped to cover all of the important ones and get back out of town. (We also ate lunch in Yuma, at a Wienerschnitzel if I'm not mistaken.)

From Yuma we headed back over the river into California and followed the county roads north past the Black Mountain TV site and up into Blythe, California, in the Colorado River Valley; this turned out to have been a mistake, as Black Mountain wasn't much to see and following US 95 on the Arizona side would have been faster.

KAWC-A/F tower

KTTI/KCFY/KQSR towers

KJOK/KLJZ tower

El Dorado studios

KECY-TV studios

KSWT studios

KYMA studios

Monstermedia studios

Ex-KTTI tower

KBLU towers

Black Mountain