KBEK previously aired an eclectic mix of music with specialty shows every night of the week, all hosted by personalities who live in the station's broadcast area.

The station was assigned the KBEK call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on September 20, 1989, and was granted its license to cover on May 22, 1995.

It was formerly licensed to John Godfrey, Colleen McKinney's late husband, who died of cancer in 2004.

[4] KBEK turned its transmitter back on October 26, 2014 and resumed regular broadcasting shortly thereafter.

[5] McKinney sold KBEK to Genesis Technology Communication LLC effective December 1, 2017 at a price of $200,000.