Lincoln Dellar put KXOA on the air on May 15, 1945, at 1490 kHz, alongside an FM outlet at 107.9 MHz.
[4] A young Don Imus was hired away from Stockton station KJOY in 1970, to do morning drive; he quickly left for Cleveland's WGAR.
The callsign was changed to KQPT on April 15, 1997, to KOME on July 16, 1998, to KRAK on January 15, 1999, and finally to KIID on February 19, 2001.
On July 15, 2009, two of the three radio towers KIID broadcasts from were destroyed due to a fire at the transmitter site.
[10] On June 29, 2015, Radio Disney Sacramento filed an application to sell KIID to Punjabi American Media.