KVEN

KVEN
City Ventura, California
Broadcast area Ventura County, California
Branding Sports Radio 1450 AM
Slogan Ventura County's Sports Leader
Frequency 1450 kHz
First air date 1948
Format Sports
Power 1,000 watts
Class C
Facility ID 35847
Callsign meaning K VENtura
Affiliations CBS Sports Radio
Los Angeles Dodgers Radio Network
Owner Cumulus Media
(Cumulus Licensing LLC)
Sister stations KBBY, KHAY, KRUZ, KVYB
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KVEN (1450 AM, “SportsRadio 1450”) is a sports radio station licensed to Ventura, California, carrying the national CBS Sports Network but no locally-originated programming. It is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts with an effective radiated power of 1,000 watts.

History

KVEN first signed on in 1948 and aired a variety of programming during its first four decades.

In 1990, KVEN adopted a news/talk format. Host Phil Hendrie broadcast his show locally weekday afternoons from 1 to 4PM at the KVEN studio. A notable episode was a 5-way on-air round-table chat with Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and George H. W. Bush on November 4, 1991, the opening day of the Reagan Library. Overall, the station was one of Southern California's top 20 rated radio stations during the 1990s.

In December 1999, McDonald Media Group sold its eight stations, including KVEN, to Cumulus Media for $41 million; this marked the Cumulus’ debut on the Pacific coast.[1]

For a considerable part of the 2000s, KVEN was an oldies radio station. Originally formatted by radio veteran Lee Marshall, it initially adopted the branding “1450 The Boomer” in 2000, later transitioning to a syndicated feed called The True Oldies Channel. The station aired the syndicated Wolfman Jack Radio Program, and, on Sunday nights, the Dr. Demento show, but both shows ceased airing upon the switchover to "True Oldies".[2] KVEN was affiliated with ABC Radio's True Oldies Channel from June 23, 2008 until its conversion to an ESPN radio affiliate.[3]

On February 1, 2011, KVEN flipped to a sports format with programming from ESPN Radio, which it carried until CBS Sports Radio programming was adopted on January 3, 2013.[4]

KVEN broadcasts major sporting events, most featuring Los Angeles-area teams. KVEN serves as the Ventura County home of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball, while during the NCAA football season the station broadcasts University of Southern California Trojans football games.

References

  1. ↑ "Cumulus Hits the West Coast" (PDF). Radio and Records. December 31, 1999. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  2. ↑ ""The Boomer" KVEN-AM in Ventura, CA to drop oldies for sports". Radio-Info.com. January 28, 2011. Retrieved June 1, 2011.
  3. ↑ ""Oldies" KDZA returns to Pueblo; Ventura gets "True Oldies"". Radio-Info.com. June 24, 2008.
  4. ↑ "TV-Radio Notebook: Ventura's KVEN part of CBS Sports Radio network launch". January 3, 2013.

Coordinates: 34°15′39″N 119°14′28″W / 34.26083°N 119.24111°W / 34.26083; -119.24111

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