KVVN (1430 AM) is a

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broadcasting a

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format. Licensed to

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, United States, it serves the

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. The station is currently owned by Phuong Pham through licensee Pham Radio Communication LLC, owners of

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History

Founded by George B. Bailey and Greater Bay Area Broadcasters, the station obtained its first construction permit on March 8, 1963, and signed on as KGBA on December 15, 1963.History Cards for KVVN
fcc.gov. Retrieved June 21, 2018. KGBA featured programming from the

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and weekly programs in German and Italian. Following a $182,000 sale of the station to Royal Bear Broadcasters in the previous month, KGBA became KGNU on October 1, 1965.https://fccdata.org/?facid=&call=KVVN KGNU changed its network affiliation from Mutual to ABC in 1969. Royal Bear Broadcasters sold KGNU and Stockton station KWG to Barnes Enterprises for $900,000 in June 1969, and KGNU's call sign changed to KEGL on July 1, 1969. KEGL had a full

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format until April 1971, when Barnes changed the station schedule to have religious music in mornings and Spanish programming in evenings. In March 1972, Barnes sold KEGL to Cascade Broadcasting for $316,000. KEGL became KNTA on July 1, 1976. By 1979, KNTA broadcast exclusively in Spanish. In 1986, KNTA began broadcasting

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games in Spanish. In February 1997, the

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purchased KNTA from Imperio Enterprises (formerly Cascade Broadcasting) for $2.2 million. After changing from Spanish to an Asian ethnic format, KNTA became KVVN on October 17, 1997. After Inner City Broadcasting filed for bankruptcy, it sold KVVF and Berkeley station

to YMF Media, a company backed by Magic Johnson and other investors in 2012. YMF Media sold both stations to Pham Radio Communications in 2013.

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