It airs a soft oldies and adult standards format and is owned by the Eads Broadcasting Corporation.

[4] Core artists include The Beatles, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Dionne Warwick, Neil Diamond, Stevie Wonder and The Carpenters.

The original call sign was KGAL under the ownership of W. Gordon Allen's Linn County Broadcasting Company.

[5] On July 1, 1961, Allen sold KGAL to the Stadler Stations Group through its Radio Wonderland Willamette, Inc., subsidiary.

Veteran programmer Jim Edwards (Dick Poirier) put together a strong air staff.

From KGAL he took his talents to Columbus, Ohio, and then to San Francisco where he worked at some prestigious stations including legendary KYA.

In late 1972, Sam Lee stepped in as Program Director and worked on the air as "Super Shannon."

[2] In addition to its music programming, throughout 2009, KSHO and sister station KGAL aired a series of one-minute historical vignettes as part of Oregon's sesquicentennial celebration.