On January 1, 1979, the station signed on at 107.1 MHz as KAKI.Broadcasting Yearbook 1981 page C-14 It was owned by Bridges Broadcasting and was the FM counterpart to KGKO (850 AM, now deleted). The station was a Class A, powered at only 2,500 watts, serving Benton and its adjacent towns, not the larger Little Rock market. While KGKO played oldies, KAKI was separately programmed as a country music station. By the late 1980s, KAKI switched to adult contemporary music.
