November 1982, Channel Islands Broadcasting sold KACY/KACY-FM to Sunbeam Radio Partnership for $2.59 million. Sunbeam Radio was a joint venture of two Miami-based businessmen: Edmund Ansin, president of WCKT parent Sunbeam Television, and Harold A. Frank, vice president and general manager of WINZ-AM-FM; Frank became the new general manager of the Oxnard stations. During its KACY era, the station increased daytime power to 50,000 watts. Later, the daytime power was rolled back to the previous 10,000 watts. The nighttime power remains unchanged at 1,000 watts. KTRO On September 10, 1984, KACY changed its call letters to KTRO and flipped to a Spanish-language format known as "Radio Tiro". During that period, instead of jingles, the sound effect of a pistol firing was used out of commercial breaks into music (tiro being the Spanish word for "bullet"). In October 1987, Sunbeam Radio Partnership sold KTRO and its FM sister station, then called KCAQ, to Greater Pacific Radio Exchange Inc., a company owned by Frank, for $5 million. As Frank was also the minority partner in Sunbeam Radio, the transaction gave him complete ownership of the station pair. KVTA In mid-1996, Greater Pacific Radio Exchange sold KTRO and KCAQ to Gold Coast Broadcasting for $3.65 million. The new owner immediately dropped the Spanish programming and switched to a news/talk format in English. Three years later, on February 15, 1999, KTRO changed its call letters to KVTA and became the new home of competitor KVEN's news team, led by the latter's longtime morning hosts Dave Ciniero and Bob Adams. 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. However, before the problem could be corrected, a farmer plowing on land adjacent to the KVTA transmitter site mistakenly crossed a boundary and tore up at least half of the ground wiring for one of the three towers used for KVTA's daytime antenna pattern. This incident required the station to reduce daytime power to 4,600 watts and nighttime power further, to 136 watts. As of January 8, 2013, KVTA had not completed repairs and requested an extension of the STA.