It launched on October 11, 1981, as an Independent airing movies ("TV-21's The Big Movie"), cartoons, westerns, and sitcoms.
On June 20, 2012, Cox Media Group announced that it put KRXI and the LMA for KAME, along with stations in Steubenville, Ohio, Johnstown, Pennsylvania and El Paso, Texas, on the market following its purchase of four television stations in Jacksonville, Florida and Tulsa, Oklahoma from Newport Television [REF].