KYAT

94.5 FM was launched as KGLP on October 19, 1974, airing a country format.^[2] It was co-owned with KYVA (1230 AM),^[3] which had previously mixed Top 40 and country tunes, much to the chagrin of its air staff; the new country outlet allowed the two formats to be split.^[4] Both stations were sold to Road Runner Radio, Inc., owned by Russell Carpenter and George Malti,^[5] for $500,000 in 1977, and the FM's call letters were changed to KOVO on October 24.^[6] The station flipped to adult contemporary in 1986 and adopted the call letters KKOR.^[7]

In 2010, the call letters were changed to KYAT as the station began broadcasting full-time in the Navajo language, the first FM station to do so.^[8] Some program features remained in English, including news bulletins three times a day from the Navajo Times newspaper.^[8] Coverage was extended to Navajo-language play-by-play of high school basketball games in January 2017.^[9]

George Malti died in 2016 after owning KYVA and KYAT for 39 years.^[10]

• Facility details for Facility ID 35028 (KYAT) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• KYAT in Nielsen Audio's FM station database