The station went on the air as KFMT on 1968-07-17. On 1980-03-31, the station changed its call sign to the current KWIQ-FM.[3] On August 20, 2013, KWIQ-FM moved from 100.3 MHz to 100.5 MHz and dropped power from 100,000 watts to 50,000 watts, although the license for these changes was not issued by the Federal Communications Commission until September 10, 2013.