Licensed to Mamou, Louisiana, the station serves rural portions of both the Lafayette and Alexandria radio markets.

KBON went on the air in late 1997, the brainchild of Paul Marx, a DJ and nightclub owner from Crowley, Louisiana.

In 2003, a reporter for The Washington Post wrote about a pilgrimage he made to its Eunice studios: Wow.

This was no committee-scripted patter beamed by satellite from corporate HQ and squeezed between certified safe hits.

[5] The call letters KBON previously were assigned to an AM station in Omaha, Nebraska.