Its parent company, KITZ Radio, Inc., is owned by two gun-rights groups: the Second Amendment Foundation and its affiliate, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
[5] KITZ and KGTK air a mix of local and nationally syndicated conservative talk shows.
Donald F. Whitman filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on April 11, 1955, to build a new daytime-only radio station in Olympia.
[9] In August 1981, after a quarter-century, Whitman sold KITN to Space Center, Inc., through its affiliate National Communications.
A day of silence preceded the relaunch of what was billed as a "new" station, KQEU "KQ-92"; KITN's easy listening music made way for a more upbeat adult contemporary format.
[11] The revamped KQEU gave KGY, which had been on the air since 1922, credible competition with a "big city" sound.
[13] The "KQ-92" moniker stayed until 1992, when the station rebranded as "The Capital" and beefed up its local and national news programming;[14] the call sign was changed the next year to KCPL.