KUSW, which was also branded "The Superpower", officially launched on December 26, 1987 during the peak years of the American commercial shortwave broadcasting boom triggered by the founding of WRNO Worldwide.
[1][3] The station signed off under its old format on December 16 of that year, to be relaunched under the KTBN callsign two days later.
[1] To celebrate the format/ownership change, TBN founders Paul and Jan Crouch staged a televised demolition, whereas a false representation of KUSW's former library of rock albums was exploded in a Disco Demolition Night-esque manner.
As early as June 2004, KTBN broadcast warnings that it would leave the air due to "lack of [listener] response".
[4] Although the station continued for several years after these announcements, pages dedicated to the KTBN shortwave service were deleted from the TBN website in 2005.