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. The station is owned by Gold Coast Broadcasting and broadcasts a Spanish-language news/talk format. By day, KVEN has a power of 10,000 watts. With a good radio, it can be heard up and down the Pacific Coast of California, from San Diego to Santa Barbara. 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. It uses a directional antenna at all times. The transmitter is off East Pleasant Valley Road at Dodge Road in Oxnard. It is also heard on 130 watt FM translator K242CW at 96.3 MHz in Oxnard. History KACY The station was first licensed in 1957 as KYNE. When it finally signed on the following year, the station adopted the call letters KACY. Branded "KACY 152" (pronounced "Kay-cee one-fifty-two"), it broadcast a top 40 format and used the slogan "Boss of the Beach". KACY was one of the first stations to broadcast the weekly countdown show American Top 40 when it debuted in 1970. 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. Several KACY disc jockeys went on to greater prominence in their subsequent careers. During KACY's first few years on the air, Robert W. Morgan (at the time known on-air as Bob Morgan) hosted a live nightly program at the now-defunct Wagon Wheel Bowl in Oxnard before becoming a famed "Boss Jock" at KHJ in Los Angeles. "Shotgun" Tom Kelly was also heard on KACY in the early 1970s (as Bobby "Shotgun" McCallister); later, he moved on to major markets such as San Diego (appearing on KGB-FM and KCBQ) and Los Angeles (heard on KRTH as recently as 2016). TV host Bob Eubanks is another notable former KACY 152 DJ. 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. 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. In