It was owned by religious broadcaster Edward G. Atsinger III and featuring Christian talk and teaching shows.

[4] KGFT changed its call letters to KLIT-FM on April 1, 1988, and adopted a soft adult contemporary music format.

[6] In July 1995, Great Electric Communications II Inc. sold KSBL to Criterion Media Group Inc. for $1.33 million, thus bringing the station under common ownership with KQSB and KTYD.

In January 2007, Clear Channel sold its six Santa Barbara stations, including KSBL, to Rincon Broadcasting LLC for $17.3 million.

[9][10] On September 10, 2018, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted KSBL a construction permit, good for three years, to start transmitting from a facility atop Santa Cruz Island with a directional 1,650-watt signal, licensed to Isla Vista, California.