Licensed to Vail, Colorado, United States, the station is currently owned by Steve Leigh through licensee KNS Broadcasting, LLC.

The first transmitter location was on top of the Vail Ski area close to the Far East Shelter.

On September 8, 2009, the station changed its call sign to KBTB, and on 2011-04-26 to the current KKVM.

KKVM subsequently went through numerous ownership and format changes before its current incarnation of playing Classic Hits.

The Mile is an affiliate of the syndicated Pink Floyd program "Floydian Slip" which airs on Saturday nights at 7pm.