WKAT
City | Miami, Florida |
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Broadcast area | South Florida metropolitan area |
Branding | 1360 WKAT |
Slogan | "Radio Luz" |
Frequency | 1360 kHz |
Format | Spanish Cristiana/Talk |
Power |
5,000 Watts (Daytime) 1,000 Watts (Nighttime) |
Class | B |
Owner |
Salem Media Group (Caron Broadcasting, Inc.) |
Sister stations | WHIM, WZAB, WOCN |
Webcast | Listen Live! |
Website | 1360wkat.com |
WKAT 1360 is a Spanish talk radio station based in the South Florida area of Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
The previous format was conservative talk radio with a lineup that resembled other outlets owned by Salem Communications: Michael Medved, Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Savage, and William Bennett among others. And like the other stations, its tagline was "Where Your Opinion Counts."
In 2005-06, WKAT was the radio station that carried games of the Florida Pit Bulls, a franchise in the American Basketball Association owned in part by NBA all-star Tim Hardaway. However, the franchise is now suspended pending a move to the Continental Basketball Association, where it will be known as the Miami Majesty.
Before WKAT became a talk radio station in 2005, it had been South Florida′s last remaining classical music station.[1] However, WKAT had spent the 1960s and 1970s as a Miami Beach-based local talk station.[1] Before that, WKAT had a popular music format. In the 1940s, singer-songwriter Arthur Fields worked there while in semi-retirement.[2]
Today WKAT airs Salem Communications' "Radio Luz" Spanish-language Christian format, which also appears on sister station WWDJ-AM 1150 in Boston.
WKAT has been granted an FCC construction permit to move to a different transmitter site, increase day power to 9,300 watts and decrease night power to 400 watts.[3]
They have also applied to relocate and upgrade FM translator W267BW from Sebring to Miami which will give them an FM signal throughout central Miami-Dade county.
References
- 1 2 Citron, David H. (3 February 2005). "WKAT is now Conservative Talk". South Florida Radio Pages. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
- ↑ Gracyk, Tim. "Arthur Fields". Tim's Phonographs and Old Records. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
- ↑ "FCC Construction Permit". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
External links
- Station website
- News/Talk WKAT Flips to Christian Talk (from South Florida Radio History, 1/1/2007)
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WKAT
- Radio-Locator Information on WKAT
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WKAT
Coordinates: 25°57′36″N 80°16′13″W / 25.96000°N 80.27028°W