 It began as a 1,000 watt daytimer, required to go off the air at night.In 1991, KGTN became KOPY with a Christian format, owned by state representative Dan Kubiak.Two years later, the Lower Colorado River Authority acquired KOPY; the public utility's acquisition of the radio station, which had previously gone silent, came in the wake of 1991 floods in the region that required more timely dissemination of information than the region's weekly newspapers and coverage-limited radio stations could provide.