By January 1991, the format was changed to adult standards simulcast from sister station KDEF AM 1150.
[3] By August 1992, the two stations had entered into a leased management agreement and purchase option with Clairmor Broadcasting, which owned country formatted KOLT-FM 105.9.
On Christmas Day, it would launch a new age music format with a planned callsign change to KNUA.
[8] KUCU would return to the air in the summer of 1993 simulcasting the sports talk format from KDEF until it would be sold.
Much of the talk and bible teaching programs that aired on KNKT were moved over to KLYT 88.3, which changed its format from Christian Contemporary music and rebranded as "The Light" on May 31, 2021.