KVTA
news/talk radio station in Ventura, California, United States
KVTA (1590 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Ventura, California, featuring a sports radio format known as "Fox Sports 1590/97.9". Owned by Gold Coast Broadcasting, KVTA serves Ventura County and southern Santa Barbara County. The station's transmitter is located near the Santa Clara River off of the Ventura Freeway. In addition to a standard analog transmission, KVTA is relayed over low-power Ventura translator K250BV (97.9 FM), and is available online.
History
KVVC took to the air on January 9, 1948, licensed jointly to the cities of Ventura and Oxnard, California. The station became KBBQ by January 1973, featuring a country format, along with NBC Radio programming.
On February 1, 1985, the call sign switched to KOGO and the format flipped to adult contemporary music. As KOGO, the station changed hands twice. In July 1986, Forrest Radio sold KOGO and sister station KBBY-FM to New York City-based ownership group Ventura Broadcasting Associates for $3 million.
That same group sold the combo three years later to Buena Ventura Inc., headed by George Duncan, for $6.7 million.
“KVTA” enters the record as news/talk radio station in Ventura, California, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what KVTA, news and talk can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“KVTA” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, KVTA, news and talk provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6340297. Authority coordinates are 34.237, -119.202. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1590, 1948, 1973 and 1985.
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This entry incorporates text from “KVTA” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.