The station was assigned the KVSM call letters on July 24, 2013.[3]
In August 2017, Ether Mining Group sold KVSM to Cristian Martinez for $300,000 plus a time brokerage arrangement; this transaction also included usage rights to FM translator K271BV in Orcutt, owned by Edgewater Broadcasting.[4] The sale closed in December that same year.[5]