[3] The station has been assigned the KKGR call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since November 26, 1996,[1] and has been owned by KGR, LLC since 1999.

[4] The station was put on the air by an investor group that included Werner Nistler and the Lonnquist family, which had just sold KXGF in Great Falls.

At the time it signed on, KHKR was the only AM station playing country music in the Helena area; it was limited to daytime hours to protect KNBR in San Francisco.

[7] The country music on AM came to an end in 1991 when Hi-Line Radio Fellowship, which owned KXEI in Havre, leased the station.

[10] They retained the AM station, which flipped to classic country under new KKGR call letters,[11] until 1999, when it was sold to Jim Schaeffer, the president of KBLL-AM-FM, for $90,000.