[7] Initially, K26ES served as a translator of KLWY in Cheyenne; this brought Fox programming to Casper, along with a secondary affiliation with UPN.

[10] On March 27, 2012, Wyomedia was granted a construction permit[11] for a digital companion channel for K26ES to operate on channel 27;[12] this facility was issued the call sign K27LZ-D.[13] K27LZ-D filed for its license to cover on June 15, 2012[14] and was granted it on July 16;[15] on June 13, 2013, the call letters were changed to KWYF-LD.

[13] The analog K26ES license remained active until September 12, 2014, when it was canceled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

[18] Wyomedia Corporation agreed to sell its stations, including KWYF-LD, to Legacy Broadcasting on February 8, 2018.

[22] By April 2022, the station began airing newscasts from the Coastal-owned and partly-centralized News Hub, recently acquired from Waypoint Media.