[4] It was owned by Paul D. Lunde and was branded as "KLFM Stereo - Ames; Central Iowa's first 24-hour FM station."

It aired a beautiful music format with ABC FM Radio Network news at 15 minutes after the hour.

In 1997, the station was purchased by Saga Communications, was rebranded as "Lite 104.1 KLTI," and the studios were moved to their current location at 1416 Locust Street in Des Moines.

[6] On October 18, after stunting through the 17th with all-Elton John music (as an eventually-postponed June 2020 concert during his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, to be held at Wells Fargo Arena, had been announced that day), the station rebranded as “104.1 EZ FM”.

Currently, KOEZ is the only commercially-licensed non-religious station in the Des Moines market to devote its entire playlist to the holiday format.