The station is owned by SummitMedia, and its studios are located on Mercy Road in Omaha's Aksarben Village.

The two stations broadcast a country music format and were owned by Pier San of Nebraska, Inc. KOOO-FM's power was only 31,000 watts, a fraction of its current output.

In 1979, the station changed its call letters to KESY, and flipped to a largely automated beautiful music format.

It played quarter-hour sweeps of soft instrumental music, mostly cover versions of popular adult songs with Broadway and Hollywood show tunes.

[8] Scripps exited radio in 2018; the Omaha stations went to SummitMedia in a four-market, $47 million deal completed on November 1, 2018.