Studios are located along Greenville Avenue in north Dallas, and the transmitter site is northwest of Gunter in Grayson County.

On August 1, 1988, its Hot AC/Top 40 format was dropped due to the station ending its ownership with Oaks Broadcasting.

The 95.3 channel was moved outward to the unserved town of Howe, where the new station operates to this day.

KHYI is an affiliate of the Mean Green Sports Network since August 1974, and carries University of North Texas football and men's basketball games.

The station later began to air a primary Plano ISD football games focus into their schedule in the early 1970s.

During the adult contemporary and top 40 era of KWPL in the 1980s, the station aired news and information (every 20 minutes) across the Collin County area into their schedule.