 The station previously had the callsign of KCWR with a power of 10,000 watts from their current tower location in Forest Hill, Louisiana.The callsign was changed to KGBM on September 6, 1982 and once again less than 2 years later to KICR.The station increased power to 34,000 watts as a class C1 radio station in 1995 with a callsign change in 1997 to the current KKST.