The LaRue Family planned to sell KSTN-AM-FM to Independence Media Holdings of Dallas, Texas, for $24,250,000 in 2008.

[citation needed] At its inception, KSTN's programming was Big Band/Swing, with some Country western Music in the afternoons with Dusty Duncan as the host.

Other early KSTN on-air personalities included Bud Hobbs, Bill Elliott and Paula Stone.

In 1962, station owner Knox LaRue contracted with noted Top 40 radio programmer Bill Drake to program KSTN.

Upon leaving San Francisco's KYA in 1962, Bill Drake was hired to split time as program director of both KYNO in Fresno, and KSTN in Stockton, California.

A pioneer of the Top 40 genre, LaRue built KSTN in 1949, and began playing the popular music of the day.

These rare artifacts from his Stockton days are precursors to the Johnny Mann acapellas and Bill Drake-voiced jock intros and station IDs of the "Boss Radio" era.

The station played "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen followed by the theme from WKRP in Cincinnati before signing off the air for the final time at 6:15 pm.