 The original callsign was KQEK, as issued on January 17, 1992, but was changed to WELY-FM on June 5, 1992.WELY was owned by retired CBS broadcaster Charles Kuralt from 1995 until his death on July 4, 1997.In 1999, WELY-AM-FM transferred from the estate of Suzanna Baird Kuralt to her estate's executors, Susan Bowers & Lisa Bowers White, who sold the stations to Alice L. Hill & Janice Nagel Erickson, a Twin Cities transplant.