Ken Knight, Sonny Martin, and newscasters George J. Jennings, Wayne Moss, Phil North and Ray Lincoln of the Ray and Ram Program. The station also broadcast University of Arkansas football games. KAAY's cult status was forged in the late 1960s, when, after 11pm, the station abandoned the standard top 40 format for three hours of underground music with the program Beaker Street hosted by Clyde Clifford. Its nighttime signal extended well beyond Little Rock and Arkansas, covering much of the Great Plains and Mississippi Valley regions of the United States. Owing to its 50,000 watt clear channel signal that could be received in Cuba, KAAY provided residents of the island nation an important cultural link to the outside world in the years following the Cuban Revolution. During the 1962 Bay of Pigs Invasion, the United States government used the station to broadcast anti-Castro propaganda while working to win the release of Cuban exiles who participated in the failed exercise. KAAY was an inspiration to Cuban rock musicians and rock fans who tuned into Beaker Street late at night, keeping themselves informed about American music and underground music in the 1970s. They listened undercover with Soviet-made transistor radios. In the late 1960s the station's jingle started out with roaring thunder followed by a deep voice: "Fifty thousand watts of music power, K-double-A-Y, Little Rock". Switch to religion By 1980, listening to contemporary hits was shifting from AM to FM. The station tried moving to adult contemporary music and some country music. Eventually the station switched to an oldies sound, calling itself "Oldies 1090". At night, when the station's 50,000-watt signal could be heard over a large territory, the station aired nine hours of paid religious programming. In April 1985, KAAY was sold to the Beasley Broadcasting Group, which switched to a format of Southern gospel music and brokered religion. The FM station was sold to Signal Media, which owned KLRA. In 1998, KAAY was bought by Citadel Broadcasting for $5 million. In 2011, Citadel Broadcasting merged with Cumulus Media, which continued the Christian programming. KAAY is Cumulus' only station with a religious format. KAAY Rewound On Labor Day weekend of 2003, the station returned to its roots with a historical segment called "KAAY Rewound". KAAY's Barry Mac and sister station KARN's Grant Merrill played 1960s and 1970s hits and took calls from all over the South. Clyde Clifford returned to talk