The station is owned by QueenB Radio, with its license held by Morgan Murphy Media, and its studios and offices are on West Boone Avenue in Spokane.
[3] Weekdays on KXLY begin with a simulcast of co-owned KXLY-TV's wake up program, Good Morning Northwest.
In the early days, there were no formal requirements for stations, most of which operated under Amateur and Experimental licenses, making broadcasts intended for the general public.
To provide a common standard, the department issued a regulation effective December 1, 1921, requiring that broadcasting stations would have to hold a "Limited Commercial License" that authorized operation on two designated broadcasting wavelengths: 360 meters (833 kHz) for "entertainment", and 485 meters (619 kHz) for "market and weather reports".
[11] Craney convinced his employer that the Radio Supply Company should operate a broadcasting station, to promote sales.
The December 1, 1921, regulations that had established the broadcasting service required that station operators had to hold a "commercial second-class license or higher".
[12] On November 21, 1922, a broadcasting station license with the call sign KFDC was issued in the name of "Radio Supply Co. (E. B.
KFIO (now KSBN), first licensed on May 22, 1923, has a slightly longer continuous history, because unlike KXLY it was never deleted and relicensed.)
Although initially licensed to broadcast on 360 meters, Craney later reported that technical issues meant that the station had difficulty maintaining its assigned wavelength.
They took place at "The Golden Concert Studios of KFPY" on the second floor, which boasted a curtain, a stage and seating for 150.
[18] On November 11, 1928, under the provisions of the Federal Radio Commission's General Order 40, KFPY was assigned to 1390 kHz on a timesharing basis with KWSC in Pullman, Washington.
During the "Golden Age of Radio," the station carried CBS's dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts.
That same year in November, Craney sold KXLY and KXLY-TV to the Northern Pacific Radio and Television Corporation, headed by Joseph Harris, Norman Eisenstein, and Richard E. Jones.