The station is owned by Educational Media Foundation and airs the contemporary Christian music format of its nationally syndicated K-Love network.

On October 27, 1989, Geffen Records sued Pinnacle for copyright infringement over an unauthorized broadcast of the Whitesnake album Slip of the Tongue on KHTY prior to its release.

The incident in question occurred on the evening of October 20, when the station's disc jockey encouraged listeners to get ready to record the broadcast, then played the album in its entirety.

According to KHTY general manager William H. Johnson Jr., an anonymous source mailed the station an advance copy of the album, and acting program director Darren Stone was unaware of any issues that may arise from playing it early.

)[11] In August 1993, Pinnacle Communications sold KHTY and KTMS to Atmor Properties to satisfy a debt owed to a finance company principally owned by AT&T.

EMF took control of the station on December 1, 2012 at midnight, switching to the Christian contemporary hit radio format of its Air1 network[20] with new call letters KYGA.

On December 14, 2017, KYGA flipped to Air1's sister network K-Love, which airs Christian adult contemporary music, and changed its call letters to KLSB.