The station first signed on the air on May 15, 1995 as K58FA; its calls were changed to KKRK-LP in 1997. In 1999, the station was acquired by the Equity Broadcasting Corporation, which was based in Little Rock, and changed its call letters to KLRA-LP. The station became an affiliate of Spanish-language network Univisionin 2001. On May 8, 2004, Equity began simulcasting the station's programming on sister stationKUOK in Woodward, Oklahoma as well as its three translators and KCHM-LP in Oklahoma City; KUOK-CA in Norman; and KOKT-LP, forming a regional mini-network known as Univision Arkansas-Oklahoma. Local commercials from the Little Rock area that were inserted by that station during national commercial breaks and KLRA-LP's station identification bumpers were broadcast through this simulcast to Oklahoma viewers. In March 2005, the simulcast between KLRA-LP and KUOK was discontinued, with both stations – which continued to be programmed via satellite from Equity's headquarters in Little Rock – relaying Univision programming through separate feeds with KUOK carrying advertising for businesses within the Oklahoma City market and separate station promotions. KLRA-LP rebranded as Univision Arkansas shortly afterward. After failing to find a buyer at a bankruptcy auction, KLRA was sold to Pinnacle Media in August 2009, with Pinnacle assuming control of the station under a local marketing agreement on August 5. In 2013, the station changed its call letters to KKYK-CD ; in addition to swapping call letters, the station also swapped affiliations with KKYK-CD, which adopted the KLRA-CD calls and became the market's Univision affiliate; the new KKYK-CD moved to UHFchannel 30 and became an affiliate of Soul of the South Network. The station's low-powertranslator stations in northwestern Arkansas: KWNL-CD in Winslow and KXUN-LD in Fort Smith, became translators of the channel 20 KLRA-CD.
Until 2008, KLRA-LP had produced a daily half-hour Spanish-language regional newscast Noticias Univision Arkansas, which aired Monday through Friday evenings at 5 and 10 p.m.; the program was produced out of Equity Broadcasting's headquarters in Little Rock as one of what would become six Univision-affiliated stations owned by Equity whose newscasts were hubbed from the facility, although each station maintained their own locally based reporters. The newscasts were also simulcast on now-former sister station KUOK in Woodward, Oklahoma and its translators after the stations became the Univision affiliate for the Oklahoma City television market in May 2004; as a result, the newscasts were retitled Noticias Univision Arkansas-Oklahoma in 2005. The following year, Equity Broadcasting began producing separate regional Spanish-language newscasts for KUOK and Tulsa Univision affiliate KUTU-CA, after the KLRA-LP was discontinued. As a result of corporate cutbacks due to the company's financial issues, Equity discontinued the newscasts it produced for all six of its Univision affiliates on June 6, 2008.
