Elden and serving the greater Flagstaff area, giving the station the "Sunny 104.7" identification.

KVNA has been granted an FCC construction permit to move to a different transmitter site and increase the night power to 70 watts.

The station was owned by Flagstaff businessman Jack Bird and licensed to Thunderbird Broadcasting Company; the call letters stood for the initials of the first owner, E.O.

[5] KGPH was bought by a part-owner of Phoenix's KOY in April 1956;[6] the new owners changed the callsign to KVNA.

The application was approved in 1966, but it was not until the station completed construction of its new studio facilities, on September 8, 1969, that it moved to 690.