the station went on the air as kkty-fm on may 1, 1992. on september 1, 1992, the station changed its call sign to kwog-fm. on december 2, 1993, it changed again to kkty-fm, and on may 2, 2011 to the current kkts-fm. kkts also began broadcasting on am 1580 and 107.3 fm in casper, wyoming in 2013.