[6] The station announced plans for studios and a transmitter site on Shawnee Avenue east of St. Mary's Hospital,[7] but it soon found itself needing to buy additional land to ensure a buffer to surrounding properties.

[10] Future governor Raúl Héctor Castro served as the station's attorney;[8] daily broadcasts included English lessons from a University of Arizona professor, radio dramas and newscasts.

[5] For a time, KEVT operated from a streetside studio at the corner of Congress Street and Church Avenue, which opened in 1957;[4] a year later, after a burglary, a fire caused extensive damage and destroyed the station's phonograph collection and many business records.

[4] In January 1966, Peter Trowbridge, one of the founding members of Tucson Radio, resigned, and the company publicly announced its interest in a Spanish-language TV station and an English-language FM outlet.

[16] Korngold had abandoned his antitrust law practice on Long Island to move to Tucson and run KEVT, which became one of the first U.S. stations to carry Spanish-language news direct from the Associated Press instead of having to translate English-language stories, using the shortwave transmissions from the AP.

[19] The next year, he started a Spanish-language station, KAMX, in Albuquerque, New Mexico;[20] in 1972, he attempted to purchase interest and take operational control of KPHX in Phoenix,[21] and he later bought KLAV in Las Vegas.

Abundant Life Ministries, owned by Grace Chapel, acquired the station for more than $1 million in 1981, proposing a format of "inspirational" Christian talk and teaching programming.

Seeking to take advantage of a ruling that incentivized stations licensed to suburban localities, Abundant Life filed in 1982 to move KVOI to 700 kHz in Oro Valley, where it could broadcast with 10,000 watts during the day and 1,000 at night.

[32] Good News Radio Broadcasting, owner of KVOI and KGMS, purchased KCEE (1030 AM) from Jim Slone, who had programmed an adult standards "pop classics" format on the station, in 2009.