The stations share studios in Rochester on Bandel Road Northwest along US 52, and also maintain an advertising sales office on Lakeview Drive in Clear Lake, Iowa, that serves Mason City.

Its programming consisted mostly of low-budget syndicated fare and cartoons, though for a time it also aired Minnesota North Stars hockey.

In 1997, Paxson decided to sell KXLT to raise money to launch the Pax network (today's Ion Television).

Shockley instantly invested in the station upgrading it to full power operations and moving to new studios in November of that year.

Known by the faux calls "KWBR", the station was programmed by the national The WB 100+ service but local promotion and advertising sales were handled by KXLT.

As part of the arrangement, Quincy provided all technical support, promotions, commercial production, and master control for KXLT.

[1] Through a news share agreement in place since 2001, KTTC produces a half-hour prime time newscast on KXLT seen Sunday through Friday nights.

At some point in 2009, CBS affiliate KIMT (channel 3) added the market's second prime time local news show at 9 to its MyNetworkTV-affiliated second digital subchannel.

On March 21, 2011, a day after KTTC performed an upgrade to high definition news production, KXLT completed the switch.

Airing for thirty minutes at 8 a.m., the program is formatted with news, weather, local features and entertainment segments.

Earlier in 2016, chief meteorologist Randy Brock left his post and went on to pursue a career in real estate.

The 30 minute slot for the morning was used to expand Fox 47 News at Nine to a one-hour broadcast in January 2020, anchored by Maddy Wierus and chief meteorologist Nick Jansen.