History
- July 1947 - December 31, 1954: 96.5 frequency signs on as KRON-FM, co-owned with KRON-TV and the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.
- 1957: KRON-FM returns to the air with evening-only programming devoted to classical music. During the 1960s, KRON-FM devotes a full hour (7 to 8 p.m.) to a complete Broadway show album. The station has no commercials, no underwriters, and no fund drives, but is operated by the Chronicle as a public service.
- 1975: Chronicle Publishing Company, parent of the Chronicle, sells KRON-FM to Bonneville International which relaunches it as KOIT.
- December 13, 1983: Bonneville Broadcasting Co. purchases KYA from KING Broadcasting, changing the call letters to KOIT with 96.5 going to KOIT-FM per FCC convention. The KYA call letters remained in service at KYA-FM (93.3, now KRZZ) and went into retirement in 1993.
- January 18, 2007: Bonneville announces station swap with Entercom Communications, with KOIT and the other Bonneville FM radio holdings in San Francisco going to Entercom in return for three of Entercom's stations in Seattle, Washington and Entercom's entire radio cluster in Cincinnati, Ohio, subject to regulatory approval. This trade would mark Entercom's re-entry into the country's fourth largest radio market.
- February 26, 2007: Entercom officially takes over via LMA.
- March 14, 2008: Entercom and Bonneville officially close on the deal, with KOIT and the other San Francisco FM stations formerly owned by Bonneville becoming owned by Entercom outright.
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