KSKS

The station signed on the air in 1946. KRFM were the original call letters. The first owner was Paul Bartlett, a Fresno radio station pioneer. The station's studios were originally at the transmitter site in Meadow Lakes. In the 1940s and 50s, few people owned FM receivers, so finding an audience was difficult.

The station was acquired by the owner of KFRE (940 AM, now KYNO) and KFRE-TV (now KFSN-TV), which originally operated on VHF channel 12, later UHF channel 30. As a sister station to KFRE and KFRE-TV, the FM station took the call sign KFRE-FM.^[4] All three stations were owned by Triangle Publications. Triangle was the publisher of the popular weekly magazine TV Guide. The company decided to sell off its Fresno properties in 1971.

Because the stations were sold to separate companies, and the owner of the AM station kept the KFRE call sign, the FM station took new call letters, KFYE. The station was a mostly-instrumental beautiful music outlet. It played quarter-hour sweeps of instrumental cover tunes of popular adult music, Broadway and Hollywood show tunes.

Through the 1980s, the station added more vocals as an easy listening station. In 1992, KFYE completed the transition to an adult contemporary format known as "Y-94." In the 1980s, disc jockey Ray Appleton hosted "Lunchtime at the Oldies" on Y-94. Appleton would go on to become a popular talk show host at 580 KMJ. In 1992, KFYE flipped to country music as KSKS. KSKS and KMJ were acquired by CBS Radio in 1998.^[5]

In 2006, CBS Radio decided to leave most medium-sized media markets and concentrate on its stations in larger cities. On November 16 of that year, the company announced the sale of KSKS and its other Fresno-area stations to Peak Broadcasting.

On August 30, 2013, a deal was announced in which Townsquare Media would purchase Peak Broadcasting, and then immediately swap Peak's Fresno stations, including KSKS, to Cumulus Media in exchange for Cumulus' stations in Dubuque, Iowa and Poughkeepsie, New York. The deal was part of Cumulus' acquisition of Dial Global. Peak, Townsquare, and Dial Global were all controlled by Oaktree Capital Management.^[6][7] The sale to Cumulus was completed on November 14, 2013.^[8]

• Official Website
• Facility details for Facility ID 26924 (KSKS) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• KSKS in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
• List of "grandfathered" FM radio stations in the U.S.

37°04′37″N 119°26′06″W / 37.077°N 119.435°W / 37.077; -119.435