Missouri disk jockey Sam Bradley fought with Kansas broadcaster Sherwood Parks over the original construction permit (CP) for almost 6 years beginning around 1958 until the two agreed to put the station on the air jointly in 1964 with Grover Cobb and Cobb's mother Ruth as stockholders.
Parks would buy out his partners in February 1979 and then sold KINA late the same year to a group of Topeka businessmen, dba Smoky Hill Broadcasting.
The broadcast studios were initially located at 108 E. Walnut in downtown Salina and programmed Top-40 music to a teen audience and the servicemen at Schilling Air Base, which was still operational in 1964.
In 1980 studios were moved around the corner to 203 S. Santa Fe and would remain there until the late 1990's when they would consolidate with sister station KSKG in the Southgate Shopping Center on south Ohio Street.
This resulted in an annoying tone or whistle in the background of the station's programming on home radios.