It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company, alongside El Centro–licensed Fox/ABC/CW+ affiliate KECY-TV (channel 9); NPG also provides certain services to Yuma-licensed dual CBS/NBC affiliate KYMA-DT (channel 13) through a shared services agreement (SSA) with Imagicomm Communications.The three stations share studios on South 4th Avenue in downtown Yuma, with an advertising sales office on West Main Street in El Centro; KESE-LD's transmitter is located southeast of Yuma.Prior to the sign-on of the station, KSWT (now KYMA-DT) had a secondary affiliation with Telemundo, carrying some of the network's programs in the late night hours; the full Telemundo schedule could only be viewed over-the-air in western portions of the California side of the market via San Diego/Tijuana affiliate XHAS-TV (now a Canal 66 affiliate) or on some cable providers in the area via the network's national feed.In September 2006, KESE-LP was identified as a singleton applicant for a companion digital LPTV signal on UHF channel 40.On April 19, 2021, KESE-LP was licensed for digital operation on channel 35, changing its call sign to KESE-LD.