Kvenland
Kvenland, known as Cwenland, Kænland or similar terms in medieval sources, is an ancient name for an area in Fennoscandia and Scandinavia. Kvenland, in that or nearly that spelling, is known from an Old English account written in the 9th century, which used the information provided by the Norwegian adventurer and traveler Ohthere, and from Nordic sources, primarily Icelandic. One possible additional source was written in the modern-day area of Norway — all the known Nordic sources date to the 12th and 13th centuries. Other possible references to Kvenland by other names or spellings are also discussed on this page.
Old English Orosius
A Norwegian adventurer and traveler named Ohthere visited England around 890 CE. King Alfred of Wessex had his stories written down and included them in his Old English version of a world history written by the Romano-Hispanic author Orosius. Ohthere's story contains the only contemporary description about Kvenland that has survived from the 9th century:
KVEN
KVEN (1450 AM) is a sports radio station licensed to Ventura, California, carrying the national CBS Sports Network and no local programming. It is owned by Cumulus Media. Its power is 1,000 watts. In the early 1990s, a News/Talk format was aired. 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 11/04/1991, the opening day of the Reagan Library. Overall, the station was one of Southern California's top 20 rated radio stations during the 1990s.
For a considerable part of the 2000s, KVEN was an oldies radio station. It was originally formatted by radio veteran Lee Marshall, and later transitioned to a syndicated feed called The True Oldies Channel. They used to broadcast 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." KVEN was affiliated with ABC Radio's The True Oldies Channel between June 23, 2008, and its conversion to an ESPN radio affiliate. On February 1, 2011 KVEN flipped their oldies music format to sports, with programming from ESPN Radio, which it carried until CBS Sports Radio programming was adopted on January 3, 2013.
