Owned by Chuck Poppen's Central Plains Media of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, it was last affiliated with MyNetworkTV.

KCPM's transmitter was located on the Midco cable headend tower northwest of East Grand Forks, Minnesota.

On March 9, 2020, the FCC canceled KCPM's license and deleted its call sign for failure to transmit from authorized facilities for the past 12 months, along with allegations it had never properly acquired or reported a new transmitter site after December 2014, nor logged their programming and operations.

Originally, KCPM was to go on air in 2000, but the station construction permit was sold to Catamount Broadcasting of Fargo and became KXJC-LP.

In response to the merger, News Corporation (the owner of Fox) launched another network called MyNetworkTV on September 5, 2006.

Gray pledged to rebuild and upgrade KCPM's transmitter to provide full-market coverage and reserved the call letters KXQK for use upon taking control.

Richard Sjoberg, owner of a cable system in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, stated in an affidavit that station management contacted him to arrange carriage early in its existence, but he often found the off-air signal to be unusable even in Grand Forks proper.

They discovered that the transmitter had already been shut off by a tripped circuit breaker, leading Sjoberg to conclude the station's over-the-air signal had been inactive since then and for some time beforehand.

Local broadcast engineer Jacob Bechtold and KRDK-TV owner Ravi Kapur also claimed that they had never received KCPM's signal, despite each conducting regular monitoring of the television band for years prior to their 2018 affidavits.

[9][2] On April 17, 2020, Gray filed a petition with the FCC to restore the station's license, arguing by re-tuning KVLY's backup transmitter and relaunching KCPM using that equipment at a minimum price without further tower work, the station could provide extended coverage of the local impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, local telecourses from the area's school districts, and extended public affairs programming; the petition also mentions a possibility of affiliating KCPM-DT1 as a primary affiliate of Gray's subchannel network Circle (as of late, Gray has pushed their MyNetworkTV affiliates to carry the service's programming in the graveyard slot in a number of markets, reducing it to a secondary affiliation), along with providing expanded news coverage specific to Grand Forks after WDAZ-TV discontinued their Grand Forks newscasts in 2018 to only carry those of Fargo's WDAY-TV.

This is especially so in light of the fact that the effects of this transaction will extend well beyond this crisis, as the acquisition by Gray would require a permanent, as opposed to temporary, waiver of the Local Television Ownership Rule," which restricts the number of stations one entity may own in a market.