DJs from the earlier era of KEGL included Drew Pierce, Charlie "Doc" Morgan, Danny Owen, Jonathan Doll, Dave Cooley, Jimmy Steal, Anthony "Tony Paraquat" Johnson, Jimmy White (1980–84; hosted an afternoon talk show on the station called "Relationships", during 1981–82), Sharon Golihar-Wilson (who hosted the evening show "House Party"), Lisa Traxler (who went on to work at Boston's WBCN), Russ Martin (who hosted a late Sunday night talk program), and Martha Martinez reported news during Stevens and Pruett's program.

David "Kidd Kraddick" Cradick (who would go on to greater success at now-sister station KHKS) started his career as KEGL's night DJ in 1984, then moved to afternoon drive on October 20, 1986, when "Moby in the Morning" replaced RKC, who left to do mornings in Sacramento.

He was also known for a regular segment, "Burn Your Buns," where a fake threatening telephone call was placed to a specific unsuspecting person, by a listener's request.)

Rusty Humphries was briefly a personality for KEGL in the 1990s, known for his attempt to "smuggle" toy weapons into the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport as an on-air stunt.

On June 15, 1992, KEGL Program Director Donna Fadal decided to make changes to the station.

Trouble followed, including hundreds of calls to local law enforcement agencies,[6] and Kramer and Twitch were fired from KEGL.

One week later, some motorists in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex were outraged over a billboard promoting the station that was entitled "Highway to Hell", a reference to the AC/DC song of the same name.

[9] This move was possibly done in response to similarly formatted KMEO (now KTCK-FM) flipping to Modern/Texas Country music at the time.

[10] Competing head-on with longtime adult contemporary radio station KVIL-FM and sharing an audience with KLUV-FM, "Sunny" had poor ratings during its tenure.

On April 27, 2009, KEGL lost a competitor when Cumulus Media's KDBN flipped to adult album alternative.

On September 3, 2016, The John Clay Wolfe Show moved from KEGL to sister station KZPS after it had a stint.

On November 17, 2016, after sister station KDGE dropped its alternative format in favor of mainstream AC, KEGL began incorporating more alternative artists into its playlist normally not played on active rock stations, including Imagine Dragons and Twenty One Pilots.

[20] On April 1, 2017, KEGL announced the lineup of the 25th Anniversary of Edgefest after sister station KDGE flipped to a mainstream AC format as “Star 102.1” On November 17, 2016.

On August 23, 2021, multiple reports indicated that KEGL would become the new flagship station of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team's game broadcasts starting with the 2021–22 season.

[21] On September 25, 2022, it was reported that KEGL would soon drop the "Eagle" branding and rock format and relaunch as a hybrid hot talk and sports station as "97.1 The Freak".

[22] Ahead of the move, "Eagle" late afternoon hosts Dan O'Malley and Alfie Coy (and, by extension, their show "The Treehouse"), as well as Dallas Region President Kelly Kibler, were let go, and KEGL/KZPS Program Director Don Davis had resigned earlier in the month.

[23] On September 30, at 2 p.m., midday host Alan Ayo signed off the music portion of the "Eagle" format, with the final songs played being "Hurt" by Johnny Cash, "Everlong" by Foo Fighters, and "Fade to Black" by Metallica.

Weekday local hosts included Jeff Cavanaugh, Kevin 'KT' Turner, Julie Dobbs, Matt Cather, Ben Rogers, Jeff "Skin" Wade, Krystina "K-Ray" Ray, Mike Rhyner, Mike Sirois and Michael 'Grubes' Gruber.

Other programs and hosts include "The News Junkie" (from Orlando sister station WTKS), "The Greg Peterson Experience", Cole Thompson, “Inside Sports Medicine”, “The Automotive Edge Radio Show”, “Saturday Sportsworld”, “Bloomberg Business of Sports”, "What The Freak Just Happened?!

[25] On April 26, 2024, ahead of the station's broadcast of game 3 of the Mavericks' playoff series against the Los Angeles Clippers, radio news outlet RadioInsight reported the entire staff of KEGL was notified they would be dismissed earlier in the morning and the station would change formats once again.

That day, the Ben and Skin Show would run a "best-of" program before abruptly switching over midway through to a broadcast of The News Junkie.

The flip put KEGL in competition with Audacy’s alternative rock-formatted KVIL (Alt 103.7), North Texas Public Broadcasting’s adult album alternative-formatted KKXT (KXT 91.7), and The University of North Texas’s alternative rock-formatted KNTU (88.1 Indie).

[28] As of summer 2019, "Slippery When Wet" was discontinued and replaced by "The Breeze", a soft adult contemporary format formerly on KEGL's HD3 spot.

On September 30, 2022, KEGL's HD2 was reactivated to carry a continuation of the station's former active rock format as "97.1 HD2 the Eagle".

Sometime in late 2018, KEGL launched an HD3 subchannel, carrying iHeartRadio's "The Breeze" format of soft adult contemporary music.