The station was established by Seaside Electronic Associates with Paul F. Hanson serving as the president, general manager, and news director.
[7] The station was again placed up for sale and on November 17, 1965, KRML was acquired by a new company called KRML, Inc. Alan C. Lisser was company president[8] with John T. McCartt as general manager, Kim Collins as program director, and Fred Sweet as chief engineer.
[9] The new owners obtained a construction permit for a new FM sister station to be called "KRML-FM".
However, plans fell through and the permit was transferred to Monterey Bay Area Media who eventually signed on KLRB-FM (101.7 FM, now license as KCDU).
[9][10] In 1968, Jan Allen became KRML's program director with Ed Parkhurst as the new chief engineer.
[15] As ownership changed, so did the station's proposed new tower sites, signal strengths, and financial conditions.
[16] The project was granted extensions, renewals, and modifications throughout the 1980s and 1990s before the permit was ultimately cancelled at then-current station ownership's request in February 1999.
[19] During 1993 and 1994, KRML derived some of its programming from the satellite feed of KJAZ (92.7 FM) in San Francisco.
Along with this ownership split, Wisdom informed the FCC that Schultz would have effective control of the station's broadcast license.
As part of the resolution of this financial situation, Kimball agree to transfer ownership of Wisdom Broadcasting Company, Inc., to Monterey County Bank.
[26] The purchase price from the bank totaled just $150,000, a full million dollars less than David C. Kimball had paid for the station in 2004.
Excluded from the sale were the inventory of the jazz store, the Blackhawk music collection, various concert items, and a Hammond B3 organ.
Effective February 14, 2019, licensee CVAC, Inc. changed its name to KRML Radio, LLC.