 KAVE was hobbled with inadequate facilities and broadcast on low power and height from its facilities on Church Street in the western portion of Carlsbad before moving the transmitter to a tower near Artesia, New Mexico in the early 1960s.In early 1966, KBIM-TV channel 10 signed on in Roswell as the area's CBS affiliate, broadcasting from a studio in downtown Roswell and over a tower that was just short of the tallest mast, the KVLY mast in North Dakota.Almost simultaneously with the debut of KBIM, KAVE was sold and became a satellite of ABC affiliate KMOM-TV in Monahans, Texas, which is now NBC affiliate KWES-TV in Midland, Texas.