[2] KCLE was first licensed, with the sequentially assigned call letters of WJAD, to Jackson's Radio Engineering Laboratories in Waco, Texas, on July 21, 1922.
It began carrying Fox Sports Radio programming after the network's previous Dallas affiliate, 1190 KFXR, switched to classic country music.
On April 14, 2009, KCLE lost its fight with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to keep AM 1480 KNIT in Dallas (now KNGO) from increasing its daytime power to 50,000 watts.
It was announced on July 23, 2013, that KCLE would jettison its classic country format and become a second affiliate of ESPN Radio in the Dallas/Fort Worth area by June 24.
The station's schedule would complement ESPN-owned KESN, which served the Metroplex from its tower north of Dallas, while KCLE's transmitter is south of Fort Worth.