The station is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to broadcast at 89.1 MHz with an effective power of 4 kW.

Electrical engineering students from a graduate-level class studying carrier currents used their own money to rent an office on Railroad Avenue in downtown Ruston and founded the start-up and operation of WLPI.

In 1972, Louisiana Tech received a construction permit for a new 10-watt FM station, to bear the call letters KLPI.

[4] That same year, KLPI was approved to relocate its transmitter to the Wyly Tower of Learning, the tallest building in Ruston, and increase its power.

Elephant 6 founders Will Cullen Hart and Jeff Mangum were associated with the radio station during their early period in Ruston.