KBSZ uses an extremely short (85-foot (26 m)) lower efficiency fiberglass whip antenna, broadcasting a non-directional pattern day and night.
[7] However, KAKA and short-lived sister station KTPM in Sun City went into receivership and were shuttered in 1963.
[9] Lee Shoblom bought the silent KSWW for $80,000 and returned it to air on March 11, 1981, as country music station KUUK.
[9] Shoblom lost out on its first attempt to acquire an FM counterpart to KUUK in 1982 when Hassayampa Broadcasting was awarded the permit.
In 1983, Shoblom sold KUUK to the Wickenburg Broadcasting Company, and two years later, the same principals acquired the FM permit.
The Petersons relaunched the station with entirely local programming, including Wickenburg High School football games.
In 2010, KBSZ signed on from its new Apache Junction location with a Classic Hits/Oldies format targeting the residents of Phoenix's growing eastern suburbs.
On July 8, 2019, the station posted a message on its website that KBSZ had ceased broadcasting the comedy format "due to circumstances beyond our control."
[21] After nearly two weeks of broadcasting with dead air, KBSZ returned with a classic rock format named "The Rattler".
The station carries the weekly syndicated program "Floydian Slip," focusing on the music of Pink Floyd.