The station signed on the air on July 24, 1960. Its original
call sign was KONI. The station was a
daytimer, required to go off the air at night. The owner was the Pioneer Broadcasting Company. In 1967, it added a
sister station, KONI-FM on 106.3
MHz. The two stations mostly
simulcast a format of
country music with local news and
high school sports. KONI-FM was sold in 1980. Today, it is 106.5
KAAZ, a
classic rock station owned by
iHeartMedia, Inc. In 1983, the station changed its callsign to KHQN. It carried a
Mainstream Rock format. In 1984, it became the only station in the United States broadcasting
Hare Krishna programming full-time. The Krishna Temple of Spanish Fork took over the station from the Schofield family, the previous owners. KHQN began airing English-language devotional Hindu music, religious instruction programs and a call-in show for college students. A few hours a week were for
Spanish-speaking residents in
Utah County. To help support the Spanish Fork Krishna Temple, Sace Broadcasting decided to lease the station to a Spanish-language broadcaster. The station changed to a Spanish news, talk and music format in 2006. In December 2016, the lease ended. KHQN was re-acquired by the Krishna Temple's Sace Broadcasting. The station returned to airing Hare Krishna programming full-time. The station returned to airing Hare Krishna programming full-time. ==References==