KVEN (1520 AM, "La Voz 1520 AM & 96.3 FM") is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Port Hueneme, California and serves the Ventura County area.

Because AM 1520 is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A KOKC in Oklahoma City and WWKB in Buffalo, New York, KVEN drops its power at night to 1,000 watts to reduce interference.

[5] In 1971, program director Bill Tanner adjusted the station's format from a simple top 40 playlist to a mix of current hits, older songs, and album tracks.

[9] In June 1976, Dellar Broadcasting sold KACY to CTW Communications — a subsidiary of New York City-based Children's Television Workshop, producer of Sesame Street — for $866,000.

[10] Three years later, on May 3, 1979, CTW Communications sold KACY and its FM sister station (now KOCP) to Channel Islands Radio Co. for $1.69 million.

Three years later, on February 15, 1999, KTRO changed its call letters to KVTA and became the new home of competitor KVEN (1450 AM)'s news team, led by the latter's longtime morning hosts Dave Ciniero and Bob Adams.

[18][14] KVTA had been operating at reduced power under special temporary authority (STA) from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) starting in 2011 due to engineering problems.

On April 15 of that year, the station discovered that one of the monitoring points for its antenna system had gone over the limit prescribed in its license; nighttime power was reduced to 648 watts while they cause was investigated.

[19] On July 31, 2012, two hosts of brokered-time real estate shows that were broadcast on KVTA, Kenneth A. Powell and Kathryn "Katie" Rose, were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for perpetrating a Ponzi scheme type of fraud.

[20] Radio stations that air programming of this sort are usually held harmless if the broadcasters who buy time on their facilities are not directly tied to ownership.